I'm Finnish, we never had Oreos growing up, but I was fairly familiar with the brand just from American pop culture. We did have our own indigenous brands of chocolate-flavoured sandwich cookies with a bland creme in the middle, though (making Oreos wholly redundant)
Starting from like 5 years ago, however, I started noticing Oreos popping up in things like product cross-overs and Burger King (itself another recent American arrival) milkshake flavours, and now the damn things and their billion slightly different variants are taking up a significant chunk of real estate in the biscuit sections of most supermarkets. I'm kind of impressed by the the speed in which they managed to force themselves onto the market
Mondelez International/Kraft Foods apparently owns Marabou, the famous Swedish chocolate company and a bunch of other European chocolate makers as well as Nabisco, which explains the cross-brand marketing blitz. The world may be dying but at least we'll all be eating the same American trash before it does
The EU abolished sugar quotas in 2017, allowing more high fructose corn syrup imports. Since then, a lot of American brands have been pushed over more aggressively. I'm guessing this is what we're seeing.
Haven't checked, but I assume these aren't imports but rather produced locally under license (well, as locally as anything is made under globalism). I'll have to look at a box the next time I go shopping for groceries
what with the wonderful "special relationship" that thatcher built for us, we in the uk get every new bullshit thing the americans do earlier than the rest of the continent. This happened here about 6 years ago, and I can tell you that it keeps going. Taco bells will be next 😔😔🙏
Ha, we're already way ahead of you- we've had Taco Bells for a few years now
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Which I have no problem with
Also, I'm sorry for the damage done to Britain's rich native biscuit ecosystem
thank you for the concern, comrade
:::ngl, I also don't have a problem with taco bell food and I feel kind of bad about it. I mean, when even the americans hold it up as a bastion of trash food...:::
None of us Americans actually harbor real disdain for Taco Bell. What you've seen is just is deflecting and trying to hide our shame.
When the first Taco Bells opened there were actually a bunch of Americans leaving 1-star reviews complaining that Finland had ruined Taco Bell
really, London? wow. we've had one in Nottingham for a while, and now nearby there's one in Grimsby (only ~80k population), so I'd be surprised if London didn't get one not long after you left lol
Anyone not okay with Taco Bell invading their country needs FREEDOM up their ass.</Biden promise>
Sometimes companies will lose money locally for some time trying to break into a market. So cross your fingers and they might give up eventually.
i dont think i saw oreos when i was a kid in finland but now theyre everywhere yankees out!
It isn't imperialism, at least in any sort of explicit way, it's just globalism that's had more time to progress. The policies haven't been radically different since the 90s when the WTO was first established. European and other foreign brands also have more prominence in the states than they did historically.
Overtime it won't matter where you are in the world, all the big stores will be the same no matter where you go.
I was being a bit humorous with the title. I just find the immense money and effort put into pushing such a bland nothing product kind of interesting
If I lived anywhere other than America, I would push for a ban on all American consumer products, retail outfits, restaurants, and media (just pirate Moana or something).
Not the same but it does happen here too - Nutella and kinder eggs and now also those biscoff cookies and cookie butter are coming into the US.
The introduction of Nutella and Kinder Eggs can only be a good thing, you guys should be grateful to the Italians
Hot take but oreos are actually one of the less bad cookies, they're dairy-free so vegan and also can be eaten by anyone with a lactose intolerance.
Sweden's responsible for surströmming. Be careful with those cans, there's horror stories of people being evicted and shit because they splashed the rotten fish juice inside and the smell wouldn't go away
At what point do you go from foodstuff to technically edible bioweapon
Apparently the cans are supposed to be opened underwater in a bucket or barrel or something, but that doesn't make for an epic Youtube video where everyone's puking everywhere
