European. Most of those products I've never seen. Some of them I've heard of. 11/16, missed brand names of course. The filled pastry, those sticks, the waffle-chocolate-bar, the pink and purple raisins and those caramel filled chocolate buttons. Btw, I can't believe so many people missed that last one. Here you get adverts for it on almost every single commercial break! ARGH.
Being from France, I'm just utterly amazed that it isn't even known in the US. EVERYONE knows here, even 90 year olds in remote villages do. I had no idea !
Kinder eggs are not legal in the states (small toy for choking). So I think there are many places that don't import Kinder at all even though the Buenos would be fine. I'd never seen them in the US before moving to Mexico. Of course, I am now addicted . . .
I love that Kinder eggs aren't sold in the US for safety reasons but guns are, hmmm. Knew all apart from the nutty bar and the sticks, seen too many US programmes I suppose!
weirdly I hear americans talk about kinder eggs all the time, apparently they are nuts for it. And I havent heard anyone from europe talk about it ever. There were some other products that seems extremely popular in the us cant remember them, but lets say the enthusiasm surprised me. OW yea nutella being one. (with some reactions you would think they would faint if they see a jar or would kill someone over it, totally crazy)
And before I get trashed ( allready see it coming) I dont mean anything by it and it has nothing to do specificaly with being american. It is just what I noticed and was very much surprised by. The extremely enthusiatic reactions over and popularity of some products that over here people think "meh" nothing special.
(btw personally I dont get why like half of the planet gets excited over any type of chocolate anyway, it is ok, it doesnt taste bad. But that is about it for me haha, apparently I miss that "it-makes-me-feel-fantastic gene" haha
Ha, yeah, I guess you can't really tell the scale in the picture. Nerds are really small. The biggest ones are maybe 5 millimeters in diameter or so, with most of them being more like 2 or 3 mm.
you are saying you are from europe or that you think this quiz is european? I from europe and most of these I havent seen. ANd some also never heard of (cadbury, fish, sticks, nutty, and reese only from this site I think and fig newton from big bang theory)
Interesting to finally have a picture to go with some of the other names (twnkie, poptart, smore etc)
Or here: It's a traditional campfire treat - place a piece of Hershey's chocolate bar on a graham cracker, top with a hot-from-the-fire toasted marshmallow, and top with another graham cracker. Mash. The hot marshmallow melts the chocolate into a gooey, lovely mess that makes you want some more - s'more.
I think it started as a camping thing - I had my first one at Girl Scout camp - and Hershey bars were easy to carry for hiking and camp food, so I guess it just evolved from there. (When I was young no one had ever heard of granola or protein bars. We carried Hershey bars - which could be a real mess in summer heat.) I've eaten s'mores all my life and I don't ever remember eating one that wasn't made with a piece of a Hershey bar, although I guess any chocolate would work.
I made a quick search about Pocky, since It looked so similar to what in several European countries is called Mikado, and I found out that in fact they are exactly the same thing: http://pocky.glico.com/world/mikado.html I think you should allow Mikado as an answer! :)
Thanks for accepting Mikado for Pocky. However, the Nutty Bar looks like a very generic chocolate wafer, and almost resembles a Kit Kat. Maybe some leeway would not go amiss on that.
Not a chance in hell this resembles a Kit Kat. Kit Kats have a completely smooth chocolate exterior with the words Kit Kat stamped on it. And they are about 1/4 of the size.
There weren't any Reese's Pieces on this quiz. They are the small, round, chocolate peanut butter version of M&Ms, except they come in colors of yellow, orange, and dark brown. The photo was definitely a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
I could not for the life of me remember what they were called and I love those darn good delicious things. I just kept trying Little Debbie Peanut Butter Bars.
Fig Newton is Nabisco's brand name....the generic name is fig roll or fig bar. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_(cookie)). Both fig bar and fig roll should be acceptable.
Kinder is a whole series of products though. There's Kinder Riegel, Kinder Pinguí, Kinder Maxi King, Kinder Country, Kinder Überraschung... You get the idea.
Did not do well on this quiz. I feel like that might be a good thing, although I have said in the past that one should never be proud of a lack of knowledge.
Lack of knowledge on its own is never a good thing(unless we talk psychology and stuff that can leave traumas etc I can imagine there are cases it is better not to know..). Though not necessarily a bad thing either. Knowing the lyrics of some song doesnt make you a better person>
the way you obtain the knowledge can matter though. DO you know them cause you ve eaten it all yourself reguarly, or because you have heard others about it.
Little Debbie calls them Nutty Bars. Fieldstone makes an identical product called Nutty Buddys. When I was in school they were sold as Nutty Buddys, and I always assumed they were made by Little Debbie but apparently I was incorrect.
Upon further review Little Debbie and Fieldstone are owned by the same parent company McKee Foods and Little Debbie also calls them Nutty Buddys as well and their web site calls them Nutty Bars but the picture has Nutty Buddy written on the box. In summation I think Nutty Buddy should be an acceptable answer.
If they are straight we call them zuurstokken ( sour sticks, but there are all kinds of flavour like cinnamon aswell) but I think we only use the english term candycane for these curved striped ones.
And not that we use the same word as in english, but we are conscious that we are saying an english word at that moment. I guess because it is not really a part of our christmas traditions.
looked it up, what we call zuurstokken you call stick candy or candy sticks.
Kinder Bueno looks nothing like that in Australia. It's never occurred to me before now though, that it is a ridiculous name - I've always know Kinder is German for 'chocolate,' but it only just hit me that Bueno of course is Spanish for 'good.'
Only one I haven't seen in Canada is a "nutty bar". I had hoped "chocolate wafer" or some other generic description would work. Based on the 15% result, it looks like many countries don't have these.
I remember that there were blue Froot Loops as a limited-time promotion exactly 25 years ago (I remember how old I was at the time). Is this an old photo, or do they have blue Froot Loops in the States?
we only have 5 of them here, and only the big mac is really common. You hear people more about mars, snickers, twix, bounty, kitkat and M&m's I think those are the top candy(bar) products.
Can you accept fig rolls for fig newtons? I know the explanation says may be a brand but in the UK they're not sold under that brand so I've never heard of it...
I don't even think Fig bars are really "junk food". It's the other food I'd eat out of all these. Never heard of Kinder Bueno and I put chocolate wafers for the other. only got 2 wrong.
My husband loves fig bars, especially because he knows they are something he won't have to share since I can't stand them. They've made them even nastier by adding other fruit to the filling - strawberry fig bars, raspberry fig bars - I've even seen an ad for blueberry kale fig bars. Gag!
i would ask to accept "bueno" and remove "kinder" (all by itself) as a solution. In fact, kinder is the umbrella brand owned by Ferrero and used to sell snack and candy products dedicated to a younger target. So accepting "kinder" (and not "bueno") is like asking to name a car model (e.g. Jeep Cherokee) and then accepting as an answer only the generic brand name "Jeep" and full name "Jeep Cherokee" but not the model name "Cherokee"
Adding another Midwesterner who travels within the US with some frequently and has never heard of a Kinder Bueno. Only thing I have to relate to that is the Kinder Egg which I thought were banned, or some silly thing.
And before I get trashed ( allready see it coming) I dont mean anything by it and it has nothing to do specificaly with being american. It is just what I noticed and was very much surprised by. The extremely enthusiatic reactions over and popularity of some products that over here people think "meh" nothing special.
(btw personally I dont get why like half of the planet gets excited over any type of chocolate anyway, it is ok, it doesnt taste bad. But that is about it for me haha, apparently I miss that "it-makes-me-feel-fantastic gene" haha
Interesting to finally have a picture to go with some of the other names (twnkie, poptart, smore etc)
the way you obtain the knowledge can matter though. DO you know them cause you ve eaten it all yourself reguarly, or because you have heard others about it.
And not that we use the same word as in english, but we are conscious that we are saying an english word at that moment. I guess because it is not really a part of our christmas traditions.
looked it up, what we call zuurstokken you call stick candy or candy sticks.
Estonian comes closes with pulgakomm. But no other has a name that remotely looks like polkagris.
all the other scandinavian names mean sugar/candy stick/reed(rod)
Lmao you really thought that?
I dont say this to make fun of or put them down, I just thought that it was funny and really surprising
I remember that there were blue Froot Loops as a limited-time promotion exactly 25 years ago (I remember how old I was at the time). Is this an old photo, or do they have blue Froot Loops in the States?
15/16 for a European, but I was helped by the very specific rubric, thanks QM.
Junk Foods by Picture
Can you guess the names of the mostly-American junk foods pictured below?
Sometimes the answer is generic, and sometimes it is a specific brand