American Foods You Can't Find in Canada | American Reacts | Part 1 

Most of these products we have local, Canadian made alternatives. These are usually better then what Americans try selling us. Vachon anyone!

Fun fact: KFC in Canada didn't have mashed potatoes or biscuits. You'd get: Chicken, fries, coleslaw and gravy. What's the gravy for? The chicken? Don't be silly! Of course not! The gravy is for the fries of course!! America: But.... but.. but... gravy on fries?! Won't that taste horrible with the ketchup on the fries?!? Me in the States: Can I get some vinegar? America: Vinegar?! What for? Are you having a salad? What kind of vinegar are you looking for?' Me: Just normal vinegar for my salt & vinegar fries. America: Wut?!?!?!

Vachon is the Canadian equivalent of Little Debbie. Their array of products is pretty much the same types of snack cakes. I've never had a Little Debbie Product in my 66 years. I expect you don't have Vachon products in America.

Speaking as an American who is now Canadian, Vachon was always better than Little Debbie, IMO. I'm pretty sure that the Canadian requirement for packaging to be in French presents a barrier to some companies. The market share may not be worth the cost.

Well, obviously we are not missing much! OMG we have to cut the crust off our own sandwiches!!!! Never noticed that little Debbie was gone. There has always been a better alternative here. If something was here and is no longer, it's because it either doesn't sell here or has chemicals that are banned here.

None of the stuff we don't get matters an iota to me. We have Kinder-eggs, Smarties, Hickery-sticks, Cadbury products, Flake bars, and bazilions of different types of ketchup chips, so we have our own junk food, thanks very much. Also, I don't like the strange "puke-like" after-taste of American chocolate.

I work in a bakery, & I don’t miss carrying Little Debbie at all. Over the years sales were…meh, & it was a pain in the ass to fit it on the shelf, when sales didn’t really warrant the space for them. Personally, Vachon in better in quality

Canada has uncrustables now

if they made a Netflix documentary about little Debbie not being available in Canada it would be put on the American only Netflix and Canadians would never know

I live in downtown Toronto: We had Little Debbie cakes at the closest grocery store. I prefer Vachon. I've seen Uncrustables recently. We used to have A&W Cream Soda. I remember Bugles. I'm surprised that they stopped. ---------------- Why I think products were discontinued being shipped to Canada in 2022. 1/ At the tail end of the worst of Covid, there was a massive disruption in shipping around the world which also affected the Canadian/American border. 2/ There is an additional expense in making Canadian vs American packaging. 3/ None of these products were wildly popular in Canada, meaning they weren't pulling in much profit to begin with. This combination means that these products weren't making enough money to be worthwhile.

There is a huge investment required for US-manufacturers to sell products in Canada due to our language laws. You can't just take the product you're selling in the US, import it and sell it. You need to create a second version of packaging with separate production runs and distribution, for a market that is 1/10 the size of your current one.

Even Dollarama carries Little Debbie

I've seen nearly all of these in Canada. I even remember when A and W made cream soda, but it was dropped due to poor sales.

I use to eat bugles when I was little didn't realize they don't have them either lol

"Uncrustables" and "Bagel Bites" are available in 🇨🇦 at Walmart, Metro, Giant Tiger. Bugles, I grew up on them. Miss them big time😭 along with Little Debbie's Oatmeal Cream Pies.

Was just talking about Bagel Bites the other day... realized that I haven't seen them in a while.... I love those things.

I remember when Bugles came in a box.🇨🇦

You can get Little Debbie’s here in Edmonton, they come 6 in a box usually. A couple of days ago we just had the Swiss Rolls. There is a huge selection of Little Debbie products always to select from.

I don't know who put this list together, but we certainly do have Little Debbie - at least in the Maritimes. I'm from New Brunswick and these are available in our regular grocery stores (Sobeys and Real Atlantic Superstore). Maybe all the cakes on the shelves are two years old? lol

As for the Little Debbie Cakes; didn't realize they were gone; don't care if they come back.

As with Little Debbie, Canada has also lost Kleenex and Stouffers frozen entrees, the latter faves with this bachelor.

Actually it's false. We do in fact have Little Debbie's. We have the cosmic brownies,zebra cakes,the swiss rolls,the oatmeal cream pies and the uncrustables in Canada,and we still have them. Also we did use to have the bagel bites,but these were removed.

Bugles used to be sold in Canada. I miss those little snacks.

A&W does actually exist in the US as a fast food restaurant chain, but it's smaller and unrelated to the Canadian brand. Its menu is completely different.

Many many years ago when I was child we would be able to get Bugles near Christmas time. My grandma would only put them out on Christmas eve with a couple containers of flavoured cream cheese. Best snack ever!

I remember bugles when I was a kid in Ontario. Always thought they were gross.

Many schools in Canada no longer allow kids to bring peanut butter sandwiches to school due to allergies.

This is why every roadtrip to the USA requires a stop at one of those giant gas stations you guys have to buy all the USA exclusive junk food

At 71 I never had any of these in my 47 years in Canada and don't feel I missed out on anything 😉

According to my local grocery store we do have Uncrustables here in Canada. The ones listed on the grocery order site are the strawberry and hazelnut ones. But they wouldn't be allowed in school lunches because of nut allergies.

Bagel Bites are now back in Canada. I was eyeballing them today when I was grocery shopping

Smuckers jams we for sure have those to.

Can get little debbie's in Canada. Not ALL of their product lines, but a few. Honey buns, brownies, swiss rolls. (Haven't seen the oatmeal cream pies for quite a while. And i remember zebra cakes were on shelves for a long time ago, for a year or two, but eventually removed due to lack of sales)

One brand, Keebler cookies, I've seen commercials for all my life, but never tried as they've never been available in Canada.

I will tell you a little tale about how US companies try to enter the Canadian market without a clue about the market. This is true. In the 70s Hershey Chocolate decided to move their bars into Canada. So they shipped them up here in their dark brown wrappers and American chocolate. They failed miserably. They had to hire a Canadian marketing firm to tell them what had gone wrong. Any Canadian could have told them that Canadians preferred milk chocolate (that was then not now when people want 80% or whatever dark chocolate) I think that is a hangover from British chocolate which is a lot better than any in North America) They also were totally turned off by the dark brown wrappers. Canadians preferred light colourful wrappers. So they had to create a shiny gold and white wrapper for their bars and also changed the formula of their chocolate to make a dent in the Canadian market. After a few years, they went back to a darker wrapper but the chocolate is still different. Same with Starbucks. They thought coffee was coffee. Not in Canada. We hated the really dark burnt taste of Starbucks coffee so they had to come with True North blend which is a blonde type of coffee. BTW a lot of Starbucks are closing in Canada. They can't compete with Tim Hortons, and Starbucks are unionized in Canada, making it unprofitable for the franchises, so they are shutting their doors. US businesses think that the Canadian market is just the same as the USA one. It's not and they find out to their peril.

When I was little and my family would go camping, we would always have bugles to snack on. My brother used to roast them over the campfire.

Umm Uncrustables and Bagel Bites are available on the shelf in the stores of my Canadian city 🤷‍♀️ they're very yummy 😋🤤

I loved little Debbie and didn't realize they were gone because I don't eat much sweats except for what I make myself now

I've seen Little Debbie on sale at the local Dollarama, so it does exist in Canada, even if it's not as common as other brands.

I live in Ontario and we still get some Little Debbie's, we have Uncrustables (the Toronto Blue Jays promote them) and we have Bugles.

I had a bag of Bugles just yesterday. I don't know what they're talking about.

3:24 "It would almost have been better to have never had the Little Debbie snack cakes..." -- Or, as Neil Peart put it in the song _Losing It_ (which was not about snack cakes): Sadder still to watch it die Than never to have known it

Uncrustables are available in Walmarts in the National Capital Region (Gatineau) and I’m pretty sure Little Debby is available at my local Loblaws!

I'm Canadian.. and never ever had Little Debbie's cakes. I was raised on Vachon.. and all of their snacks.. so I can't see Little Debbie's being better than our own choices anyways. So I can't imagine there's a huge demand here for Little Debbie's. Just my point of view.. and yeah I could be wrong.. but I don't feel like I am. 🤔 I have seen Uncrustables in Walmart here.. so I think we have them now. Canada Dry makes Cream Soda here.. and we have always had Cream Soda in Canada one way or another. I really miss seeing Tahiti Treat by Canada Dry but it was sold and only available in certain Canadian markets.. but I grab it when I see it!. Oh and we have always had Bugles chips too.. but I am not sure we have the variety of different flavours... but maybe they have discontinued them here.. as I haven't bought them recently.. so haven't noticed actually. We had Bagel Bites here for yearssssssssss... and if we had the same brand .. then I am sure you can get them in other brands here still.. so it's no big deal. We have pizza tot bite thingies here... as I have seen them in all the grocery stores. Trust me we aren't feeling any hardships with American snack goods. We are actually inundated with American snacks and more choices than we need most likely!!! 🤣🙃😉 Cheers from Ontario, Canada 🍁

ROFLMGBFFAO!!!!!!! OMG!😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂🤣🤣 even that article was toned down. *Olestra* didn't *'just'* cause cramping and diarrhea.... it also was famous for having in its list of side effects, the globally disturbing phrase; *"MAY CAUSE ANAL LEAKAGE".* (Meaning, you could shit yourself, without noticing right away)

We still have little Debbie's on the shelves here in BC Canada. I also saw the crustless thingies in the freezer section just yesterday. A & W, we don't have that at all. Bugles are here too, I don't like them but we have them.

My favorite part of the bread is the crust and the heal

George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays have been in ads for Uncrustables since last year in Canada. I've never tried one, but as far as I can tell they are available at most grocery stores.

We have uncrossable’s in Canada and we have bugles in Canada we have bagel bites. I swear FreshCo sells all these.

Here in Québec, love your videos. We did lose but got back Buggles, Uncrustable, Bagel Bites and we still have some Little Debbies in dollar stores

A Ho Ho is a Swiss Roll?? I've never known that! I hear characters on TV talk about Ho Hos and I literally never knew what they were. Whenever my family and I travel to the US, we love walking down the snack and cereal aisle for things we can't get here. Sweet tea is the main one, my husband as a truck driver always has to bring a jug home when he crosses the border, but you guys also have way better Pop Tart flavours and cereals that we can't get here.

One of my favourite childhood memories was as a teenager, being a counsellor at a camp. On the weekends, we would take our tiny weekly stipend and go into town and visit the local A&W. I would order a meal with a cream soda in a frosted glass from the freezer. The cream soda ended up with a crust of ice on the top from the chill of the mug. It was sooooo good. Then they got rid of cream soda and swapped to a root beer that tasted a lot worse than the previous flavour. Oh well, at least they now have a Doggie Burger.

I miss the Cheesy Baked Potato Hamburger Helper here in Canada. It was my favourite meal, and then it was taken away.

I was so disappointed when they took little debbie snack cakes. I so miss hunny buns and the pumpkin cookies that came out around Halloween.

We have Little Debbie’s and Bugles in Canada! Uncrustables entered the Canadian market, about a year ago!

My Brother inlaw was the regional sales manager for Little Debbie's for western Canada

It's been a few years since I've seen Bugles and Little Debbies. I miss potato rings too!

What i do miss, is getting that little loaf of warm, buttered, sliced bread, with my KFC. Aaaaaaaand reeeeeeeally miss the popcorn chicken mashed potato bowls. 😒

I’m a Canadian in my 50s , never had ‘Little Debbie’ anything. And you can’t miss what you never had. It just wasn’t popular

I live in Quebec city (province of Québec), we do have bagel bites and bugles at supermarket, also somes place has Miss Debbie cake like (Maxi, Wal mart and gas stations)!

I was born in Philadelphia, so the American foods I crave the most are Tastykakes, especially Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes and Butterscotch Krimpets, and Scrapple. When we do go down to visit family we bring back as much as we can carry.

We had little Debbie until sometime last year. Vachon is a Canadian brand that has similar products and in my opinion they taste better for the most part too!

A friend of mine was a distributor for Little Debbie's in Ontario, Canada for yrs, up until 4-5 yrs ago.

Tyler , you don't have Kinder Surprise!!! Ha ha ha.

As a 30 odd year old Canadian. Can't think I've ever seen Little Debbie products, maybe they never sold them to the grocery stores I visited. Seen commercials for uncrustables but they never interested me. personally, Peanut Butter exist. Jam/Jelly exist. and bread exist. Not that hard to make a PB&J sandwich. A&W Cream Soda? Never heard of it. also, 1.5 litres? that is a weird volume to sell things at. I remember Bugles. though, honestly, I have always been more of the other brands like Doritos (Jalapeno Cheddar), Lays, Old Dutch, Ms. Vickies to name a few I again remember Bagel Bites. But, I also remember them being very expensive for a package. they were good, but again, I'm not missing them too much.

Bugles are available in Canada.

I recently had A&W Cream Soda here in a Québec. It’s just a limited edition.

uncrustables very recently came to Canada (i was very happy having tried them in the states before) we only have the pb&j and "nutella" ones tho. And yes Tyler, some people will drive over the boarder just to get snacks! (especially when the dollar is better)

I live in newfoundland and i have always seen little debbie snacks in our bigger stores like walmart,sure i saw the oatmeal creme cookies last week, uncrustables h8ave recently came here amd bugles have been here for years, My daughters boyfriend loves them and ive bought bags for him for christmas.We also had bagel bitesmbut haventnseen in awhile, loved them.

I’ve had Little Debbie Swiss rolls here in Alberta. I didn’t realize they were gone.

I’m not sure how old the video you are watching is, but we have Little Debbie, uncrustables, A&W cream soda, bugles, and bagel bites. The only thing in that list that we don’t have are Doritos light.

I could be wrong about this but in 2022 (and I’m sure You will mention this) we also lost Stoufers. They were the BEST frozen dinners in my opinion and now they’re gone 😭

I've tried the ones that were at one point available in Canada and I don't remember really liking any of them. I think the only one I never did was the Bagel Bites. The one that I really miss is the Ragu pasta sauce. I've been having a hell of a time finding a replacement that I like instead of just can tolerate

I can't say I've ever seen a little Debbie here - the snack cakes in the stores in my province are all Vachon. Little Debbie were probably only sold in a few markets and never gained wider traction, but I do remember Bugles. Twinkies are also not something I see a lot of - the first time I had them was in uni when someone brought a box back from the US. The guy who brought them, cut them into small pieces and our group each had a small piece. From what I recall, nobody particularly enjoyed their twinkie - I thought it was one of the most vile things I've tasted - maybe it's something you need to grow up with to like?

I've seen Little Debbies in our Dollarama. Maybe they bought up what was left before they pulled out. I've never heard of Uncrustables.

We used to have Little Debbie snacks in Canada a little while ago. Haven't seen any in about a year

2:00 In Giant Tiger's store in Québec they have these. But honestly I always found LD snacks tasted cheap! Vachon's cake and Dare and Christie's cookies are way better. 8:31 How come? There's 900 A&W locations in the U.S 9:55 Bugles are available in Dollorama stores and many more like IGA, Métro. 15:55 These are also available in Québec's grocery stores.

Bagel bites are back in Canada. I saw them at my grocery store recently.

I don't know about the rest of Canada but, here in BC we get bugles around Christmas Time.

Along with oatmeal cream cakes , warm one up with vanilla iced cream , your source in a liar lol

I am a full blood Canadian, born and raised. I have never seen a "Little Debbie" anything here in Canada. I can tell you how we survive: we have better, less sugary, less fatty confections. For example: Old Dutch Ketchup (not katsup) chips, smarties which are not the same as your smarties, which we call rockets. Our smarties are similar to M&Ms, but better

I was born and still live in Ontario,. Not once in my life have I ever seen them on any shelf in all the stores I've been in. I've lived in multiple locations and never seen them. Vachon has a large part of the competition.

These products were probably sold just in certain areas of Canada. I am 78 years old and have never seen Little Debbie canywhere I shopped.

I don't know where that website seems to get that information, but it seems to be outdated. It's possible the contract was renewed via a different distributor. In one of the grocery stores here, it's in the same corner as all the Vachon products. Including Twinkies.

I definitely miss Bugles. Honestly though, I'm born and raised Canadian and in my 57 years, I've never had Little Debbie's. I never remember seeing them.

Uncrustables exist, can get them at Costco's freezer section, may be called something else but I've definitely seen them.

Thanks a lot... I had no idea we couldn't get Bugles in Canada anymore! I'd sign a petition to bring them back. I don't remember ever having Little Debbie but I do remember Bugles. And A&W Cream Soda. My first job was in an A&W. I miss the Root Beer slushy ice that would form immediately after you fill a root beer mug straight from the freezer.

I wish we still had Bugels, they were great, but we aren't missing much with the rest of that list. There's nothing on it that we dont have something as good or better up here. And A&W is, in my mind, most comparable to Wendy's, but the better burger. If youre thinking something along the lines of Wendy's or Burger King, but you wanna treat yourself, you go to A&W.

George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr famously have TV ads for Uncrustables. They are available in Canada as of 2024. A&W along with the other brands distributed by Dr. Pepper are split in Canada among Coke and Pepsi. A&W is on the Coke side and they opted out of Cream Soda. There are A&W restaurants in the US but they are owned by a different company than A&W Canada and are not growing the same as in Canada.

I have only tried Bugles out of this list, I did like them. I heard of Little Debbie snack cakes, and Bagel Bites but have never tried them. The rest I never heard of until now.

Many of these products are still sold near the border. However, other than manufacturing and low sales, we do have equivalent products under different brand names. In general, they're quality is better. This is because Health Canada has stricter policies when it comes to chemicals in foods. This is why our foods are generally better tasting. Compare a Hershey product with a Cadbury/Nestle product for example. Same idea, different brand. Blind taste test them, you'd quickly see that Cadbury/Nestle has a better taste due to the lack of severe preservatives that are banned here.

Its probably the Canadian FDA stopped bagel bites...they are too strict!!

You can get creme soda , a&w. Bugles are available , always have been

Hi, in 2022 we (at least in Québec, but probably in other provinces too) were still under very strict COVID restriction, which obviously pushed forward the foodpocalypse as many company seeing their numbers going down have to revised their inventory from A to Z which led some distributors to drop some brands.

To be honest, I don't remember ever seeing Little Debbie products in Ontario, so I'm not missing them at all. There are lots of similar Canadian products.

Uncrustables, A&W cream soda (4 pack bottles) are at my local Metro, you can still get actual branded Begal Bites at Giant Tiger here as well

I love those oatmeal cream pies, wish we had them... I think a lot of these things are regional, rather than Canada wide

Yes we have these cakes and treats in Alverta, Canada.

Never had little debbie stuff. Bugles when I was a kid.

They stopped selling them here in Ontario a good few years ago.. I miss the Swiss Rolls ..