Good old Austrian Vegemite.
Salmiak licorice. It’s not a treat for everyday, but sometimes that weird bitter salty combo slaps.
Belgian ales, and German beers that follow the purity laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony's_Chocolonely
Dutch chocolate which is very good, and uses a slavery-free supply chain.
German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.
As a swiss person “Hershey” is not choclate — it is a candy.
Soapy-tasting wax, at that.
European sardines are VASTLY superior to most of the stuff you get in the US
Chianti Classico from Italy. It’s just soooooo smooth.
Cheese, cured and uncured dried meats, dairy…actual food standards that protect consumers and aren’t pumped full of antibiotics, they just taste so much better.
Most of it… Last trip I took to Europe, I was staying in an airB&B in Iceland with a few friends, and it had a kitchen. I went to the Bonus (local grocer) and got bread, cheese, eggs, and butter and made a simple fried egg sandwich for breakfast every day. Best damn food ive ever made for myself.
We dont have good cheap bread state side, cheese product is most of whats on the shelves and Euro eggs were just better. It took about a week after coming home for random food items to stop tasting like plastic…
Croissants (made here but I think of them as so French)
Good cheese (there is some great cheese being made here but in Europe they make different ones and they are so, so delicious)
Cava wine, the Raventos Blanco Blanco de Blancos Vino Cava holy crap that stuff is so good it convinced me wine can be simply delicious on its own.
Off the top of my head the only European food product I consistently buy is Kerrygold butter. But I could use a domestic version. Other than that I’ll on rare occasion buy a wine that’ll be from Italy or France rather than a domestic.
The only international foods that really make up any significant part of my grocery list are fruits from the tropics.
The domestic versions of kerrygold are getting better! Not quite as good but very good!
Danish butter cookies are pretty awesome
Prosecco…
…and Campari.
I’m trying to think of the last food item I’ve eaten that was made in Europe, without success.
As a french reading the replies in this thread: Ew
Fine. I’m putting my Campari in Champagne now 🙃
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Probably just the swiss chocolate in the Holls chocolates I get for some holidays. The bonbons/truffles themselves are made in Vienna…West Virginia.
