Bbq sauce and salsa are very easy to find in Europe in every supermarket cheaply as is peanut butter. What are Oreos and Reeses?

Mountain Dew (or, as my old man says, Mountain DON’T).

The mustard is different — it leaves a wicked aftertaste.

Just had a look on the net to see what the products are. Oreos and similar are sold in Europe. Don’t remember seeing Reeses stuff.

Pop always seemed outrageously expensive to me over there, and they didn’t have near the selection. I don’t remember ever seeing Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper (both of which I love)

Most of their foodstuffs in Germany is fantastic, but I sure was not impressed with their milk (they don’t drink it as often as we do, or ever that I saw, and it’s not as cold… ick) or their beef. I’m used to Montana beef, so their burgers and steaks were really pathetic. However, good luck mailing those!

icecubes and airconditioning
haha okay obviously they exist but, selectively and rarely.

Here’s what i miss in DK
coffee at 6AM (the cafes open at 10)
decent beef (they slaughter old milk cows)
Orangina rouge (OK it’s french)

But not much else. It’s all here, just twice as expensive.

Can’t say I ever really missed much cuz there are lots of alternatives available, but this stuff is uncommon and easy to ship:

Jello (nice if you’re missing air conditioning and ice cubes)
Really good, chewy, chocolate chip cookies

My friends have asked me to send or bring:

Decaf coffee (Folger’s crystals)
Splenda (artifical sweetener)
Powdered lemonade mix and hot chocolate mix (hard to imagine as the "real stuff" is available, but I suppose the mixes are handy and maybe expensive to buy)
Books and Magazines — try Amazon.UK for cheaper shipping

If you’re willing to spend BIG bucks try having steaks shipped. Omahasteaks.com ships great (though very expensive) beef and pork internationally

Crack
Fat suburban housewife with SUV (ship by sea crate) (be sure to poke holes on crate)
Cheap cigarettes, booze and gas
Cheesy american skin mags
A decent Sunday paper (Philadelphia, Washington, LA)
Cassette tapes of good ol decent red blooded American radio re-broadcasts (Howard, Rush, NPR, Dr. Laura, the Car talk Bros., music)
A functional high caliber assault rifle (.223 with 50 grain hot load ammo-I’d recommend a mini-14, perfect for releasing that pent up road rage at your local shopping mall)
A shopping mall-this could be logistically challenging
A professionally trained-street smart attack dog (Rottweiler’s R fun)

Hell, a fella could have a hell of a weekend in Vegas with all that stuff!

LOL
I can’t think of anything American I missed or noticed missing in Germany but durring long trips out of US I craved my music and favorite magazines that aren’t available everyplace

Soda is mad expensive in Europe. If he wants cigarettes let him come back with some from Spain. For anything else I’d suggest that he gets used to the country because 2 years is not that short. Steaks shipped? mmh… food in Germany is served in big portion at restaurants and really cheap to buy raw or cooked.
The best thing would probably be to let him ask for things once in a while unless you want to do him a surprise. Europe has everything, it’s just the money that’s a killer. ( euro is stronger than US dollar, 2nd taxes go from 15 to 20% in europe and are already included in the sell price).

My wife is American. We live in my native Germany. Stuff she brought back from our last trip to the States:

. Jello, Oreos, Hershey bars, animal crackers (no, this stuff is not banned here, we just have different taste buds).

. lots of paperback books (of course you CAN get English language books here, but they are twice the price)

. Jambalaya-Mix, Black Rice-Mix, Gumbo-Mix (if you want Creole/Cajun cooking here, you have to make everything from scratch, and dry goods like that don’t take too much space and weigh almost nothing).

. Apple Pie seasoning mix.

. a plastic squeeze bottle with sulphur-yellow spreadable reprocessed "cheese" in it. The wife doesn’t actually eat that stuff anymore, she just likes to have it to gross people out (still works with me).

. grape jam (I can’t explain why, but we don’t have that here).

Hope this helps

Ok — candy is one, but chocolate in Germany SO surpasses our candy, so scratch that.

If your friend smokes, send cigs cuz their’s might be pricey (been to other places in Europe but not Germany for too long)and…I smoke Camels and the Camels they sell abroad taste so bad.

Cereal. Breakfast items aren’t my fave — breads and meats.

Toiletries can be pricey over there so you might want to send them.

Music!

I have noticed that things like candy bars (even the same brand, ie Snickers, that you buy in the U.S.) bought in Europe don’t seem as sweet to me as the same candy bar in the U.S.. I have stopped buying them when I’m there because I don’t like them.