What American Food Section Looks Like in New Zealand Grocery Store

I usually prefer the store’s locally made products over the imported ones.

There were some American-style products scattered around the supermarket outside of the designated section.

However, most of the New Zealanders I know, including myself, prefer to buy local products over imported ones, which might be why the American items were few and far between. 

For example, you can buy US-made peanut butter, but it’s nowhere near as popular here as local New Zealand peanut-butter brands, like Fix & Fogg. 

Our local peanut butter is famous for having peanuts and salt as the only ingredients, whereas many American brands have added oils and sugars.

The same situation happened with chocolate.

I recognized Reese’s on the shelf but would rarely buy its peanut-butter cups over the peanut-butter chocolate block from Whittaker’s, a New Zealand brand. I’m proud of my country’s locally made chocolate and consider it to be higher quality than Reese’s.