Hi I’m from Germany and I recently discovered these different spreads other than peanut butter here that I found quite tasty.

One was a peanut butter chocolate spread from Reese’s who also makes my favorite candy Reese’s peanut butter cups.

And I found a chocolate cream that’s like Nutella but with crunchy pieces mixed in like the one in the image (tastes like Ovaltine powder or Whoppers candy and 55% of the ingredients is just sugar).

Nutella (/hazelnut spread) of course is very popular here but I rarely eat it. As a kid I used to love and be obsessed with this cookie butter from Lotus.

Other spreads I know would be Dulce de leche which is caramel flavored and popular in Latin America.

Is that something Americans would eat or does this sound very exotic/weird and they mostly stick to standard peanut butter?

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Nutella, marshmallow fluff, and the Reese’s spread are all fairly popular, but not as ubiquitous as peanut butter. Apple butter is probably my favorite, although I’m not sure if it’s popular outside of my region (mid-Atlantic).

    e: I just looked it up and never realized that apple butter was of Dutch origin, which makes sense because you see it a lot in Mennonite markets. Apparently in your part of the world it’s called “appelstroop”?

  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    We have something called apple butter, which is a very dark thick applesauce spread.

    Edit: you call it applestroop

  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I wouldn’t consider this a common product in the United States but I wouldn’t say it would be out of place either.

    Peanut butter is most common, and Nutella became really prominent in recent history in the US but we also have cookie butter, marshmallow fluff, Cookies and cream spreads and S’mores spreads.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Health food stores will often have other nut butters as spreads. Almond butter is common, sunflower butter is common because some schools ban peanuts. Nutella is pretty popular, there’s also people who do marshmallow fluff on their sandwiches. There’s also “goobers” - which has peanut butter mixed with jelly.

    For savory spreads - mayo and yellow mustard (look up the brand “French’s” - I imagine a German would be horrified at the most popular mustards here.) There’s also sub dressing - oil and vinegar.

    Is marmite a thing in Germany? It’s not common at all here - I get it from a Indian grocery store.