Duplicate post.
California wine.
But the OP asked about the food and drink itself, not the brand names.
If you buy a Big Mac or a Whopper in Australia, it’s pretty unlikely that the beef, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. on the burger were imported from the United States.
Indeed they are, especially when our own navels are out of season and all we’ve got are valencias.
I’ve seen Pringles in the shops and other US chocolate and lollies.
Oh, and Oreos have been available here for a couple of years.
Most feral hogs, especially the insidious ones getting all the publicity and their own reality shows, are invasive species in the US originating in Eastern Europe and Asia, particularly from Russia. Knowing that, I’d offer a WAG that the feral hogs in the US don’t meet USDA guidelines for pork and hence aren’t sellable to the US market. However, it’s still meat and it has value to places that might be short of it. I suspect the logic is that these types of hogs are eaten regularly in Russia and the neighboring states and the feral stuff we have here is either indistinguishable or perhaps marketed as a premium product.
According to the book American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields, American varietal honeys are highly prized outside the U.S.
Speaking of terroir, in addition to great wine, Santa Barbara CA is also the second
biggest producer of “Uni” (Sea Urchin Roe) for the Japanese market. Urchins (spikey purple critters) like cold water and sunshine. This yellow roe paste is harvested by deep sea divers, driven down to LA and flown fresh to Tokyo. Talk about low carbon footprint!
A few U.S. products in my (Canadian) kitchen:
Frank’s Red Hot sauce
Rice-A-Roni
Arm & Hammer baking soda
a bottle of Vidalia onion marinade from Costco
a jar of marinara from Costco
I’m sure there are others; some are simply labelled “imported by XYZ Corp, Ontario Canada”.
I can find Snickers, Pringles, Coke, Pepsi, and othe junk foods easily here in Afghanistan, but I think most of them are produced in Pakistan.
Most “american” chocolate candies and sauces are probably made here, but the Dutch love Californian wine.
There is a chain of bars here in Korea that proudly serves Miller, Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft, etc. I haven’t gone in yet to check it out. The local Debec grocery has a section devoted to American goods like A-1 Steak Sauce and Bush’s Baked Beans. I can’t find chili or cheese here unless I prevail on a pal with access to an Army PX. Most Kellogg’s cereals are represented at Lotte Mart or someplace similar. Starbucks products are pretty easy to find. Yeah, they slap tariffs on American cars and computers over here, but for clothes and a surprising number of food-related products, an expat can get by okay.
Go into any British supermarket, and you’ll find dozens of familiar brand names – Heinz, Kellogs, Sarah Lee, Mars, etc. Look a little closer, though, and you see that they’ve all been manufactured in the EU (in the UK, even, as often as not).
Actual physical imports from the US are a bit harder to find: I recently did a big sort-out of the fridge and kitchen cupboards, and to entertain myself I kept a note of the origin of everything we had in there (which turned out to be a ridiculous amount of stuff, from a surprisingly large selection of countries). The score for the US was: one small bottle of Tabasco sauce and one tin of Alaskan red salmon.
I suspect that the majority of food imports into the UK from America are in the form of raw ingredients that only reach the consumer inside other products: wheat, rice, corn – stuff like that.
Something that I think should be imported on a far greater scale is root beer – my girlfriend brought me a can of A&W yesterday that she got in a special English and American imports shop in Cologne, and I almost dropped to my knees…
I think perhaps Germans are just inherently suspicious of anything bearing the name ‘beer’ that comes from overseas (and rightly so, in many cases).
Large scale imports I can’t speak to, but there’s a subset of sweet shops over here that specialise in importing goods from the UK and US for expats and others who like them.
So for example in the sweet shop in my local shopping centre they have boxes of imported candies like Hershey’s, Wonka stuff (though we do have localised versions of that), things that can’t be gotten over here like cinnamon candies etc. etc. Pepsi and coke are bottled locally to different recipes from the US versions, but the lolly shops also import soft drinks we just can’t get like cherry coke, dr pepper and canada dry ginger ale.
Some of these shops will do larger ranges - not just candy, but also things like cereals, pop tarts, other dry goods.
They’re as expensive as hell though because essentially these stores buy retail and you pay a premium for import.
The Japanese are apparently nuts for US beef jerky, and the Polynesian countries have a real taste for Hormel’s SPAM.
So it is. My apologies, Switzerland.
In my kitchen: rice, microwave popcorn, Skippy peanut butter, Tabasco, Kick-Ass hot sauce, French’s mustard, Welch’s grape jelly (I imported the last one myself).
Depends on your timing. Once upon a time, an eccentric named Timothy Dexter managed to turn a handsome profit by shipping coal to Newcastle.
Considering all I’ve heard about the inferiority of American beer and chocolate (especially Hershey!), I’m surprised that we export much of it. Do we export Little Debbie products, too?