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

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    4 years ago

    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 😔😔🙏

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • Lerios [hy/hym]
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        4 years ago

        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...:::

        • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          When the first Taco Bells opened there were actually a bunch of Americans leaving 1-star reviews complaining that Finland had ruined Taco Bell

      • Lerios [hy/hym]
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        4 years ago

        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