Oh man...no wonder people from other countries think Americans only eat crap. I've never understood why "American" food shops abroad only stock the really horrible for you, processed artificial stuff. Maybe because it's all so full of preservatives that the longer shelf life suits international shipping better - I don't know.
Also, the rather limited stock here consists of flavours of things that I've never seen anywhere else - really weird versions of candies and cookies, strange iterations of Mountain Dew... Again, maybe stock that doesn't shift so well back in the States?
Anyway, I'd pretty much never eat any of this stuff, here or in America or in the UK. Maybe if they carried normal Twizzlers, I'd cave once for those, but they only carry some weird flavoured version, not the classic. The only reason I went here was out of curiosity and to get some PG Tips, and then I saw how much they charged for them and I almost choked. I think it was about 6e for a small box of black tea. Yikes. But then I went to Stockmann's food hall and saw that *they're* charging 11e for a box of Yorkshire Gold, so suddenly 6e for a box of PG Tips doesn't seem so bad. What kind of world are we living in, people? Madness, I tell you.
I do have to say that the staff in Behnford's are super nice. But unless you like paying a lot of money to stuff yourself full of refined sugar and artificial flavours in versions nobody on earth has ever heard of before, you're not going to find much of interest here. Also the bigger K Markets and such stock some American products nowadays, so you might find things at much better prices looking elsewhere (even pirkka has started doing some nice natural peanut butter that's pretty inexpensive and only has peanuts and salt, no sugar - hoorah!). read more
