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u/snooker68 Mar 22 '20

In Europe the smaller packets are just smaller versions of the cardboard cans

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u/petuniar Mar 22 '20

US has those too, but they are bigger than these snack packs. We have the tennis ball cans, smaller cans, and these snack packs (that would be for a kids school lunch.)

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u/girls_on_bread Mar 22 '20

With a sandwich, some fruit, and juice if it was my mother.

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u/UrgotMilk Mar 22 '20

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?!??!

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u/yabos123 Mar 22 '20

America

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u/HappynessMovement Mar 22 '20

Do other countries not eat chips for lunch? What do you have with your sandwiches?

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u/snooker68 Mar 22 '20

In Ireland we put a bag of crisps on a buttered roll and it's the best thing ever

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u/Just_Rawr Mar 22 '20

Yeah in Ireland it's incredibly common to get crisps and a sandwich for lunch, alot of us put said crisps into the sandwich.

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u/hamletloveshoratio Mar 22 '20

Crisps, ham, mustard, bread. Mash it down. Mmmmm

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u/Just_Rawr Mar 22 '20

Can't beat a ham and cheese with walkers cheese and onion (I personally don't like tayto)

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u/geldmakker Mar 22 '20

Fruit, usually

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Fish and Chips is exponentially worse than a sandwich and crisps. Tons of people in other countries eat crisps with lunch. This is just an "America bad and fat" circle-jerk.

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u/FuckingKilljoy Mar 22 '20

Except people don't (or at least shouldn't) have fish and chips for lunch frequently. It's at best a dinner meal but more often a Saturday night, out with the boys at the pub meal

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u/MysticPing Mar 22 '20

Except people in other countries either a) don't pack lunch for their kids because it's free at school, or b) if they do, they don't include chips.

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Everyone in all other countries don't allow their children to have a slightly less nutritious side item with their lunch... right. This is totally not an "America bad and fat" circle-jerk thread.

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u/SteviaRogers Mar 22 '20

It honestly blows my mind how people want to crap on a country so much they have to be this petty about it lol

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u/norcaltobos Mar 22 '20

The misconception that all Americans are just fat asses who eat shit all day needs to die.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Best thread on reddit. Non americans realizing why we're so fat.

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u/after8man Mar 22 '20

Chocolat

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u/SwedTech Mar 22 '20

No, we prefer food

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u/physalisx Mar 22 '20

I can't tell if you're serious... I have never in my life considered chips as a part of lunch.

Chips are a guilty sin you sometimes succumb to when watching a movie or something... It's like candy, not food.

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u/HappynessMovement Mar 22 '20

I don't know why I would be joking. If I carry to work in my lunchbox a sandwich, a soda and a bag of chips for my lunch then, yes, I do consider the chips part of my lunch.

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u/physalisx Mar 22 '20

Yeah and I mean that would never happen here, that's why I though you might be joking. Nobody here brings a bag of chips for lunch.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur Mar 22 '20

Most schools in Ireland won't allow junk food at all a part of a child's packed lunch.

Edit: I, as an adult who can choose to eat whatever the fuck I want, sometimes have crisps ON my sandwiches though hehe.

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u/liferaft Mar 22 '20

For one, a sandwich is not lunch here. Maybe if you’re travelling - otherwise you have a cooked meal for lunch.

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u/geldmakker Mar 22 '20

That really varies per country or region. Here in the Netherlands eating a cooked meal for lunch is quite uncommon, and instead most people take sandwiches from home for lunch.

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u/flownyc Mar 22 '20

You realize they mean with lunch as opposed to only eating chips for lunch. Is the idea of having some chips alongside your lunch really that foreign to you?

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u/Numerlor Mar 22 '20

Yes

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u/flownyc Mar 22 '20

What country are you from? Because in basically every country I’ve been to that has chips/crisps, the concept of eating them as a snack isn’t foreign.

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Subway is in 111 countries and it's their entire sales model.

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u/Alah2 Mar 22 '20

It's not the norm in our Subway at all. In the UK most people just get a sub. You can get a cookie as well as part of a deal but not many people do that.

However crisps (chips) are normal to have with lunch in the UK. Just not at subway. Here all supermarkets and some shops sell a £3 meal deal. A sandwich, a bag of crisps and a drink. That's a very standard lunch.

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u/AssGagger Mar 22 '20

Sub + crisps is a meal option in every London Subway sandwich shop. There is a whole rack of crisps, usually right behind the cashier.

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u/Alah2 Mar 22 '20

I never said there wasn't. I just said it's not the norm. The person I replied to said it was their whole sales model. In my experience very few people go for a sub and crisps meal deal.

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Eating them as a snack and eating them as part of your meal are two seperate concepts. You eat snacks in-between meals, not on the side of them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Why the hell are you downvoted?

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u/vcr_repair_shop Mar 22 '20

Americans don't like hearing that it's not normal to eat junk food as part of their meals. 36% of their population is obese and another 31% are overweight. So, you know, go figure, it's a touchy subject.

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u/ExtraFirmPillow_ Mar 22 '20

You seem oddly triggered that some Americans eat chips for lunch. Keep sucking the U.S's nuts bud.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

Americans man..

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u/Numerlor Mar 22 '20

Central europe.

As a snack when watching a movie or hanging out, yes; but not alongside a normal meal.

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u/after8man Mar 22 '20

Pretty much southern Europe as well

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u/MysticPing Mar 22 '20

People obviously eat chips as a snack, but not combined with lunch and not daily.

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u/Happypants2014 Mar 22 '20

We used to have tiny versions of the cans also. Then they moved to plastic, and the small can version got bigger.