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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Milo Boyd

'I went to the US - they have some weird and unusual food in their supermarkets'

Outrageous bumper stickers, pickled sausages and dragon waffles are some of the surprising items to be unearthed in American supermarkets.

The UK and American may have an ocean border and a shared history, but a look inside the average fridge on both sides of the Atlantic makes it clear we've gone far since parting ways in 1776.

Not only is the average US dish bigger (Americans food intake per person is 3,782 calories a day on average compared to Brits' 3,344), our cousins to the east embrace some interesting flavour combinations.

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