Wife got me a snackbox subscription – monthly snacks from around the world. This Month is UK. How did they do?

by Thewickedworm

29 comments

  1. I don’t recognise any of that except the Millions

  2. Sorry to break it to you pal, but they did pretty badly . Apart from the millions – I don’t really recognise the others? I’d wait to see what others respond though, I think maybe I just live under a rock

  3. Flavours are right but not many of these would be seen commonly in shops in the UK!

  4. I live in the UK and have literally never seen any of those products in a shop.

  5. This looks like stuff left over from a raffle when everyone donated things from the back of their cupboard

  7. Crisp done okay the rest not so much. The majority of that I have never seen in the shops here. Why bounty cookies? That is the most controversial chocolate in a tub of celebrations.

  8. It’s like if AI created a snack box. It’s almost recognisable, but just off. I can’t even start on that graphic.

  11. Flavours and general products spot on, but none of these are familiar brands – not sure a Brit could actually buy any of these?

  12. Aside from the shortbread and cheese & onion crisps, I rate the rest of this stuff about 2.5/10

    Bounty cookies? Pickled onion crisps? Irn Bru millions? No one buys this stuff.

    Maybe there’s some people out there who does but my word if I turned up to the office with a gift box of this stuff they’d be quite confused and potentially concerned.

  13. Yeah not great.

    I’ve seen Millions and they have teamed it with Irn Bru which is decent.

    I’m not 100% sure I’ve seen Taylor’s Crisps, never seen bounty cookies or any of the rest as brands.

    Although what do you expect from these boxes? 

  14. Anything that says “Candy” on it originated from the US. Absolute bobbins.

  15. Whilst the _brands_ aren’t overly well known (I do know Taylor’s, Millions and Bounty), the actual flavours are pretty spot on. Pickled onion, cheese, wine gums, Irn Bru, rhubarb and custard, short bread. All definitely British (sorry to the Scots for lumping you in, I know some of you don’t like that). Bounty is a curious one. Whilst Bounty is well known over here, coconut is a bit of a marmite flavour and not something I’d associate with the UK. Marmite, in fact, would probably have been far better.

  16. Taylor’s crisps are common in scotland. Used to be called Mackie’s until a couple of years ago

  17. Ignoring the brands, the items themselves are pretty good!

  18. It’s like someone took a walk around B&M to fill this box up.

  19. About £10 worth in co-op in Scotland. Hope they didn’t pay anymore than that.

  21. They have literally just grabbed whatever is on offer at B&M, Home Bargains and Heron that week.

    Shocking selection.

  22. These are mostly all well known Scottish brands

    Taylors, Buchanan, Deans and Walkers. You’ll find most of these brands in Edinburgh shops, but maybe not all these particular products. Walkers make a banana toffee eclair that you can get in most supermarkets, but I haven’t seen it in a bar form.

  26. Deans are Scottish

    Taylor’s are Scottish – Formerly called Mackie’s

    All rounders are Scottish

    Millions are Scottish – I’ve heard of these

    Walkers toffee are English

    Bristows Rhubarb and custard are English

    Bounty are made by Mars which is an American company however Bounty bars were 1st sold in the UK and Canada in 1951

    Whilst most of these are from the UK I find them a little bit niche and probably only available in the areas they are from. With the exception of Millions and Bounty.

    Although I am sure I must of seen Walkers toffee in the independent olde worlde sweetshops we have.

    Enjoy though.

    I’m off to visit friends in the US in August and they have given me a list of food to take.

  27. I’m a bit sad nobody recognises Taylor’s, but they’re a Scotland-based local small business and they’re available in supermarkets.

  28. To be fair not as bad as others are making out. The sweets and biscuits are largely generic stuff from budget shops. The Taylor’s crisps are Scottish and rarely seen in the rest of the U.K. The walkers toffee products are an old reasonably well known brand.

    It’s certainly not what I’d consider the most popular snacks in the U.K. But they are British themed.

    It would be the equivalent of getting a US snack box and getting a knock off Hershey’s cookies and cream bar (I.e a knock off of an already sub par product), a pack of generic petrol station sunflower seeds, a pack of red vines and a crushed twinky.

  29. It’s interesting that they mostly seem to be Scottish brands. Pickled onion Taylors (formerly Mackies) are 10/10 and irn bru millions are pretty good, but I’ve only ever seen the bounty cookies in the student union shop at my uni. Buchanan’s sweets are pretty common where I live, but none of it I would really describe as “everyday” snacks.

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