Non-perishable stuff that doesn’t need to be frozen or refrigerated, like Pop Tarts or candy.
Ranch dressing
Ranch dressing mix. That way they can make it with milk and cream whenever they want.
Dried fruits not common to the region. Cranberry, probably, cherry maybe.
Wild Rice isn’t a snack, but that could be fun.
Cheez balls.
Do they eat much popcorn outside of the Americas? If not, that’s fun to cook and to eat.
Fruit Gushers. American snacks are all intensely sweet, but I’m sure kids won’t mind that.
Funyuns.
Pepsi products (Coke is on BDS).
Good beef jerky. Yeah, I’m sure vietnam has it, but it’s probably got a different spice profile there.
Chikn in a Biscuit.
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Buccees beaver nuggets
But seriously, my asian side of the family (Indonesian) enjoy cooking ingredients that are not readily available outside the US as gifts. It is much better than one and gone snacks, and it is fun to let them experiment the new ingredients with traditional cooking. Some of my auntie’s favorites are the Bachan Japanese dipping/barbecue sauces, Chick fil A original/polynesian sauce, and some artisinal mexican hot sauces. In return I usually get 10 kinds of bottled sambals.
Get them the worst shit so they can dab on it with you
maple syrup needs to be refrigerated after its been opened. fyi.
i could not find peanut butter when i was in japan. or even an analog/similar product. i heard the same thing about india i think. probably not a thing in asia, generally. i think that would be interesting.
also cheetos, maybe flamin’ hot. cheetos are a novel texture.
could also do popcorn. corn based snacks are very american.
Does Vietnam have cereal? When I lived in Brasil that’s one thing I missed from back home, not sure if since 2012 the country finally started getting it.
Cereal is not healthy. It’s barely food to begin with.
Yeah no shit, it’s a snack
Actually I had missed that part.
peanut brittle or peanut toffee,maybe some kind of churro flavored snacks
Costco (at least the ones near me) currently has churro-flavored cake doughnut holes. They’re good.
Takis, or even better, the Trader Joe’s Takis
Suggesting non-vegam items so minor cw
Be ready to be possibly disappointed by their reaction to some of your favourite snacks. Try to get a range of sweet and savoury (chips, gummies, ‘candies’, jerky) so that everyone can maybe find at least one thing they like.
As a non-USian, I really like sour patch kids (we even have a vegan one here). Most everything else (takis, dobidos, peanut butter cups, hersheys) I’d rather not eat it in a ‘I guess if you grew up with it, it’s okay’ tryna say it’s not my thing but actually kinda gross politeness level snack
Rancheritos
A good maple syrup? I always wondered how they would taste. My cousin brought me a Walmart maple syrup and it tasted like a watered down honey. If good ones taste like that too you can ignore this comment.
If they like oat cookies, I recently tasted mcvities hobnobs and I’m hooked up. I don’t know if they are available in USA
Real maple syrup – especially the “dark” grade – has a distinct and unique taste. I have tried other tree syrups and they each have a distinct flavour, but maple is my favourite. In Canada it is often sold in cans that are filled directly by the producers. Anything in a bottle is produced in a centralized factory that mixes bulk syrup with no regard for its grade, and cut with cheaper sugars.
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Does no one here have History knowledge of anything?
What exactly are you asking?
Some self awareness maybe?
Edit: judging by the modlog, you were telling OP, who is visiting his Vietnamese family, to step on a mine for some reason? I’m clearly missing the historical context that would make this cool
There are thousands of those American mines still unearthed and I agree, that’s not cool. Look, it’s been a long weekend and I don’t know what I’m saying anymore.
