Hi I’m from Germany and I recently discovered these different spreads other than peanut butter here that I found quite tasty.
One was a peanut butter chocolate spread from Reese’s who also makes my favorite candy Reese’s peanut butter cups.
And I found a chocolate cream that’s like Nutella but with crunchy pieces mixed in like the one in the image (tastes like Ovaltine powder or Whoppers candy and 55% of the ingredients is just sugar).
Nutella (/hazelnut spread) of course is very popular here but I rarely eat it. As a kid I used to love and be obsessed with this cookie butter from Lotus.
Other spreads I know would be Dulce de leche which is caramel flavored and popular in Latin America.
Is that something Americans would eat or does this sound very exotic/weird and they mostly stick to standard peanut butter?
Stuff like that certainly exists here, but it’s not super common.
Peanut butter is pretty much our standard of that type of thing. We use jellies/jams/marmalades/etc also, often paired with peanut butter.
Nutella is popular, but not nearly as much as peanut butter.
Marshmallow fluff (basically marshmallows melted into a spread) exists and used to be more popular, but is basically seen a a novelty item now.
We also have apple butters, pear butters, etc. They’re basically a very thick apple sauce that can be spread on food. They’re not super common, though. You’ll mostly find them at specialty stores, farmer’s markets, or farm stands.
Beyond that, the type of stuff you mentioned are fairly uncommon. If people get them, it’s likely as a novelty for a special occasion. Maybe a kid’s birthday party or something like that. They’re not the type of thing people will keep in their house and have frequently.