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?
Nutella, marshmallow fluff, and the Reese’s spread are all fairly popular, but not as ubiquitous as peanut butter. Apple butter is probably my favorite, although I’m not sure if it’s popular outside of my region (mid-Atlantic).
e: I just looked it up and never realized that apple butter was of Dutch origin, which makes sense because you see it a lot in Mennonite markets. Apparently in your part of the world it’s called “appelstroop”?