Please don't get into personal trouble for Nestle. Also they already have the money from the shop owner.

Skip the middle man, got it!

If you go to the list, their smarties says:

But this is their ingredient list:

The ingredients of our original Smarties rolls are: DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM STEARATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, COLORS (RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, BLUE 2 LAKE). They contain 25 calories per roll.

For me, any "wafer" type cookie or snack just makes me feel like I'm eating Styrofoam

Fuckin cheerios? Damn...

If you want a chocolate coated cookie that isn't shit and isn't Nestle, be in the lookout for Tim Tams.

They can be a bit tricky to track down in the US - 'world foods' type grocers would be the place to look.

They're an Australian cookie that puts US junk food to shame (not a high bar, but still).

They are especially amazing if you take a tiny nibble off of two opposing corners, and use it like a straw to suck some coffee or tea or anything hot. Shove the whole thing in your mouth the second you start feeling coffee come through, and enjoy a gooey explosion of diabetes deliciousness.

Bonus points if you can find the caramel ones.

Yes but Nestlé KitKats are commonly imported and sold in the US too, especially in Asian grocery stores. I see them everywhere.

Excellent. I was thinking, I don't know of any Hershey's issues, but I'm confident someone else will.

I'm sure there are more, but it's not as obvious. I had to dig a little for these.

The truly ascendant way to eat kit Kats is in a smore.

Just a guess, but when the person you're replying to says "nestle" they mean "the company of nestle, it's employees and all their bullshit" rather than "this specific person from the company" like most people...

I doubt many people are under the illusion that major players in any company are directly involved with astroturfing on websites they don't own.

It's always going to be a low level employee, possibly even an unpaid intern.

Right, which is why I explained it below.

No, what do you mean by nestle? Do they have bots that probably send out advertisements disguised as posts? Abso-fucking-lutely. A pizza company had one just a few days ago. These are super easy to spot here on Lemmy. Is it one of the suits in the c-suite? Nah.

Comment+user name= absolute vibe

Sweden and Denmark (and probably the rest of Scandinavia) has Kex which is somewhat similar

I've been boycotting Nestle for years and I still avoid them when I can, but these days if my only choices are Nestle or an American brand (Nestle is Swiss) I'll choose Nestle.

there is not a single product that you require for sustenance that is exclusively available from these two options. Just don't!

Better than Kit Kat.

Baby milk controversy

I have some women coworkers and a couple of years ago they were sitting in the break room lamenting how hard it was to find formula. I naively asked them why they didn't breastfeed and they looked at me like I'd grown an extra head. It's absolutely astonishing that after 200 million years of successful breastfeeding (which even gives us our "mammal" name), a corporation was able to convince women that no, they should be feeding their babies with shit from a can made in factory.

There's also kvikk lunsj in Norway. And yeah, we can easily buy kex too

I'm sure plenty other countries have local variants

You forgot the George Costanza method with the knife and fork.