by Caitlin Kenney

Spam for sale in Denmark
Bernd Wunsch

An exotic American specialty for sale in Denmark.

Bernd writes:

With your recent and excellent show on fancy food economics, I would like to share this gem from my local supermarket —a can of Spam at the low price of $9.00.

I'm in Denmark and we usually don't get Spam (the brand that is), but here in the capital you can occasionally find real imported American products. They come with a really high price. The local price is 48 Danisk Kroner (dkr) which is roughly the same as $9.00. Part of the story is of course our 25 percent sales tax.

The same supermarket also has U.S. Cherry Coke at $2.87 per can. (Yes, that is 15dkr per can)