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mCowboy
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by mCowboy » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:41 pm
hackoff wrote:Americans !
Clever comment on a thread about American food...

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Re: Citymarket in Jumbo has an American Food Section
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by Hank W. » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:06 pm
penelope wrote:Y Ours were mint Pop Tarts, so they were green and looked, from the outside, vaguely something like

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by catfish78 » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:13 am
I will read the labels as I am eating my Pop tarts. Hell I can't pronounce most of that stuff. But "it don't matter to me".
Expensive stuff but a splurge every once in a while isn't so bad. It might have absolutely zero nutritional value and a shelf life that is suspect but it is a piece of home for me.
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by raamv » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:42 am
catfish78 wrote:I will read the labels as I am eating my Pop tarts. Hell I can't pronounce most of that stuff. But "it don't matter to me".
Expensive stuff but a splurge every once in a while isn't so bad. It might have absolutely zero nutritional value and a shelf life that is suspect but it is a piece of home for me.

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by Xochiquetzal » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:05 am
So that leaves the following places to get American products:
CM Jumbo
CM Jatti Jako (Tammisto - near the airport)
Kamppi K market
CM Iso omenta
Behnford's
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And yeah, the reason they are called 'Pop Tarts' is because they pop up out of a toaster.
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by mCowboy » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:20 am
American Diner in Tampere has or had some items for sale...
it's Iso Omena btw...

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by sammy » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:23 am
mCowboy wrote:it's Iso Omena btw...

Hmm...
Iso Omerta would sound impressive... lots of offers you just simply couldn't refuse

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by enk » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:41 pm
Xochiquetzal wrote:And yeah, the reason they are called 'Pop Tarts' is because they pop up out of a toaster.
Which is also why some people refer to the chickadees that pop out of cakes
as "pop tarts" ;D
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by mCowboy » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:42 pm
sammy wrote:mCowboy wrote:it's Iso Omena btw...

Hmm...
Iso Omerta would sound impressive... lots of offers you just simply couldn't refuse

I thought about that too...

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by raamv » Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:13 pm
yeah that reminds me of asking my SO to get 4 bottles of the American BBQ sauce and almost choked myself when I found out that the price of each is €8.5

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by otyikondo » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:23 pm
I had to make a quick sortie into Vantaa today (normally I try to steer clear of the place, as it's full of shady foreigners and policemen tailing them), and found myself lured into the Sony shop in Jumbo on the way home, and then into Stockmann (a VERY empty Stockmann, BTW - did they make a blunder there?), where they ALSO seem to have American products for sale, including Pepperidge Farm soft-baked oatmeal cranberry cookies, which my daughter (late of NYC) seemed to think were rather scrumptious.
Many other products in the mayo/barbecue sauce product sector.
Best one, though was, the Post Selects Blueberry Morning cereal, if only for the delightful labelling:
"Naturally and Artificially Flavored" "Enlarged to show texture"
Thanks for sharing. And thanks for a Nutrition Facts label so long I really would need a month of Sunday breakfasts to read it all.
Oh. Whoops. I just noticed. It's made in CANADA.
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by Karhunkoski » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:31 pm
With the exception of the root beer, just seems a list of stuff to make you fat. Best kept in America in my opinion.
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by mCowboy » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:26 pm
Karhunkoski wrote:With the exception of the root beer, just seems a list of stuff to make you fat. Best kept in America in my opinion.
Any food will make you fat, if you eat it more than you burn it off.
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by Karhunkoski » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:57 pm
mCowboy wrote:Any food will make you fat, if you eat it more than you burn it off.
Yes of course cowboy
It's just some foods take more burning off than others.
Political correctness is the belief that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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by aniorek » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:11 pm
penelope wrote:
There is an American section in CM Iso-Omena. Some of it is displayed between the nappies and the fruit 'n' veg and some is closer to the fruit 'n' veg on the end of one of the main aisles and then there's some more near the fish counter. I remember marshmallows and root beer, peanut butter and stuff in plastic bottles. And the Ben and Jerry's is down with the ice cream.
They also have American cheescakes around some frozen stuff, don't remember the name but quite OK and full of calories.
They used to have Dr Pepper cherry vanilla also but I haven't seen it there in a while, I like it so much.

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