Germany

Nivea Baby soap in the bath is the smell every parent in the diaspora recognizes instantly. Nivea Baby's Mild Soap is a vegetable-based bar with al...

Nivea in the family bathroom is a bottle diaspora households recognize on sight, from childhoods stocked with the brand's familiar blue tins. This ...

Summer barbecues always had a case of glass-bottle soda chilling in a bucket of ice, cracked open between rounds off the grill. This bottle is Paul...

Kinder Bueno was the treat you begged your parents for at the corner store, the crinkly wrapper promising a crisp wafer bite before you even opened...

Alpia Knackige Haselnuss Milk Chocolate Bar is a 100g German milk chocolate bar generously studded with whole crunchy hazelnuts — the Stollwerck fa...

Alpia Edel Marzipan Chocolate Bar is a 100g German milk chocolate bar with a smooth marzipan filling — marzipan paste enrobed in Alpia's mild milk ...

Snapping off a square of airy white chocolate is the kind of small treat that shows up in every European candy drawer. Trumpf makes this Aero Zart-...

Ritter Sport Nut Selection Honey Sea-Salt Almonds is a square 100g (3.5oz) milk chocolate bar packed with whole almonds that are honey-coated and f...

A Ritter Sport bar broken square by square was always shared around after dinner. This is Ritter Sport Butter Biscuit, a 100g (3.5oz) chocolate bar...

Ritter Sport Cornflakes is the crispy cornflake-and-milk-chocolate bar from Ritter Sport, the Stuttgart-founded German chocolate company establishe...

Ritter Sport Praline is the hazelnut-praline-cream bar from Ritter Sport, the Stuttgart-founded German chocolate company that Alfred Ritter and Cla...

Dark chocolate snaps differently than milk — a little sharper crack — and this bar's built around that, whole hazelnuts pressed right into the bloc...

The white chocolate square with the crunch inside was the one everyone reached for last, saved because it was the favorite. This is Ritter Sport We...

Trumpf Edle Tropfen in Nuss Obstbrände are a 250g box of German chocolate pralines with liquid fruit brandy centres encased in a crunchy sugar shel...

Germany's apfel rotkohl from Kuhne — red cabbage cooked down with apple pieces into a sweet-sour braise, ready to plate. Soft-pliable, fruit-bright...

Mühlhäuser Waldmeister Syrup is the German sweet woodruff concentrate in the 500ml bottle from Mühlhäuser, a South German producer of fruit syrups ...

Funny-Frisch Chipsfrisch Ungarisch are the iconic paprika-seasoned potato chips in the red bag from Funny-Frisch, the German snack brand whose Unga...

A jar of mayonnaise on the table at a family barbecue, next to the grilled meat and bread, is a familiar sight at home. This is Thomy Delikatess Ma...

The mayo tube in the fridge door was the fastest way to a good sandwich, squeezed straight onto bread without dirtying a spoon. This is Thomy Delik...

Kinder Pingui is the individually wrapped chocolate-sponge bar from Kinder, the Ferrero-owned Italian confectionery brand that has defined the Euro...

Thomy Rot-Weiss — the German ketchup-and-mayonnaise squeeze classic. The Thomy bicolor squeeze tube — ketchup in red and mayonnaise in white, one b...

Gut and Günstig Salz-Brezeln are a 250g bag of classic German hard pretzels — crisp, golden, evenly salted in the Bavarian-tradition format that ED...

A box of Teekanne in the cupboard is a small sign of a household that's lived in more than one country, tea from Germany sitting next to coffee fro...

Löwensenf Extra Hot — Düsseldorf's sinus-clearing mustard tradition. Löwensenf's Extra line from Düsseldorf — sharp, vinegar-edged, the extra-hot R...