12/7/22 Christmas Shopping Around the World
We then decided to do some Christmas shopping. Since our sons weren't able to join us on this trip, we decided to bring some of the trip home to them by buying a packaged snack in each country. We wrapped them all up in a big box and gave them to them at Christmas. We didn't buy anything in America, since that wouldn't be anything unique. Also we couldn't find anything in Morocco or Mexico that was prepackaged.
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Over Christmas break, we sampled each thing and rated it individually on a scale of 1 to 5.
From Japan: (which doesn't allow an AP discount, btw)
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I know you can get this at a grocery store but it looked best to us. We felt these were fine, nothing great. Rating: 3.5.
From France:
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These were delicious and if you let them melt in your mouth, they fizzed like pop rocks. kinda cool. I was thinking don't eat these with coke or you'll die like Mikey from Life cereal (80s reference for the Gen Xers out there). Our rating: 4.5 (three of us gave them a 5 but my DS24 brought the score down with a 3).
From United Kingdom:
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The Aero looked a lot like the Choco'Lite candy bar we remembered from our youth, so we had to get that but the Lion looked more unique. Aero: This was a mixed bag for us. Rating: 3.25
Lion: Kind of a mix between a KitKat and a Twix. Rating: 3.5.
From Canada:
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Definitely could taste a hint of coffee, another KitKat type candy bar. Rating: 3.5.
From China:
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I really didn't like the texture of these! I gave them a 1. Yuck! My DH26 though gave them a 3, DH & DS24 gave them a 2. Overall rating: 2.
From Italy:
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These were really good! Rating: 4
From Norway:
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These were awesome! Way, way better than anything on the cookie stroll. My DH said he now will need to get these every time we go, (but he only gave them a 4 while the rest of us gave them 5s). Rating: 4.75...the winner!
We also got Werther's popcorn from Germany but honestly we still haven't tried it...our boys haven't been home since Christmas so next time they're home we'll rank it.
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This was a really fun way to explore the countries and our boys enjoyed experiencing a little bit of Epcot over Christmas break.