Hello, i am working in a cinema and we are trying to replace the snacks we have with european and maybe a little more fair alternatives. What we are still struggling with are chips like pringles and M&Ms. We tried to replace pringles with the brand “kesselchips” once, but it proved to be not very economical as people didn’t buy it for a long period of time. Do you have other ideas on what snacks to use as alternative that might be a bit more similar in the looks? (For example coke is pretty easy as fritz-cola looks and sounds very similar in name)
Check out Treets as a replacement for M&Ms. They originally belonged to Mars but for a couple of years the German Katjes took over the brand. There’s even a vegan version if you want to add that to your assortment.
Hey thanks, that looks great! I will consider those
How about Crunchips or Lorenz as replacement for Pringles?
Both produced by the same company (The Lorenz Bahlsen Snack-World GmbH & Co. KG Germany) in Germany, so it’s mostly pricing and design that deviates.
You might want to use this site
Just type in ‘Pringles’ there and you’ll find some alternatives.
Best would be a worker-owned co-op if that exists there.
I like LIDL’s Pringle alternative
For the record if anyone here wants to find them easier: they are sold as Stacked Chips / Stapelchips under the “Snack Day” label. They are produced by “Europe Snacks”, a French company.
Edit: Another possible alternative are “Surf Chips” by Fritoper, a Spanish company. (Sold in a Netto near me). Although personally I don’t like their taste.
Apparently Aldi also has their own brand, but I have no experience with those.
Most European supermarkets white label food is made in Europe. It can be hard to find confirmation it isn’t made by the same factory, but even if it is most of your money goes to the employees, suppliers and local business. Some ingredients have a very common source (i believe a lot of almonds and walnuts come from the us), so it could be best to avoid products with those ingredients. But peanuts and cacao don’t come from us, and potato starch and sunflower oil are also more likely local-ish.
coca cola also produces locally - I still avoid them and try to use Euro brands.
Yeah my priority is basically as followed:
- Made in the EU + owned by european corpo
- Made outside EU, but owned by European corpo
- Made anywhere but US by a non-US corpo
- Made in Eu, but owned by an US corpo
- Made in the US and or by a us corpo
But i have to be fair to myself and spend my money wisely, and basically only 4 and 5 can persuade me to spend more money than i should. Only avoid 5 is hard enough also, because if you dig deep enough you almost always come across the us in the supply chain of either goods or services (payment systems is an obvious example here, but also every company uses us software etc)
Do they sell Smarties where you are? The most similar thing to M&Ms I can think of, just slightly larger. Problem is that its European but Nestlé…
Yeah, i also wouldn’t like to go for Nestle instead, knowing all the stuff they are doing
I’m boycotting Nestlé even harder than American products.
Nestlé was my first boycott 🥰
