Oreos To Ramen, This Store In China Is Selling Giant Versions Of Your Favourite Snacks

Mega-sized snacks, as in a packet of chips as big as one’s torso or a pack of cookies that needs the whole shopping cart, sound like stuff only seen in cartoons. However, a store in China has made these snacks a reality. A two-storey shop that sells these super big snacks is going viral, with people outside China also demanding their mega-sized shops. This store in question is located in Changsha, a city in the Hunan province of China. Every day thousands of people line outside to get their hands on special snacks before they sell out. According to Dexerto, one can get a meter-long strip of sour patches, giant Oreo cookies, a foot-long pot of instant ramen, and iced tea cups that can fill a small kiddie pool.

The store, named after the city, is called the Changsha Supersnacks Store. Reportedly it has become so famous that people from different places in China are paying Changsha locals to get giant snacks for them before the products sell out. Despite the buzz and high demand, the store has not opened an online delivery service, probably due to high shipping costs and complicated logistics of delivering big things.

Now photos of people carrying mammoth packets of Lays chips and Oreo cookies are raking in likes across social media. However, amongst the comments expressing awe at the products, many people are wondering if the big packets are filled with extra air and padding, or actually carry real products beyond the packaging. An X user jokingly commented on a photo of a man holding massive chips with both his arms and wrote, “i know 3/4 of that bag is just straight-up air.”

Many people also joked that Americans do not need this special store because junk food already comes in extra-large sizes. Making this reference, an X user joked, “fun fact: those are normal sized bags in the states.”

Another person compared the store to Costco, a US-based retail chain known for selling family-sized products for discounted prices, and wrote, “Yawn boring we have this already it’s called Costco step up your game China.”

An X user exaggeratedly commented on the products’ extra big size and said, “That’s like worth a 40-year supply of food and rations good, to feed a family of 70.”

It will be interesting to see if other countries imitate the Changsha Supersnacks Store, considering that it has become quite a global sensation. This store also comes at a time when many people are complaining that companies are slyly shrinking the size of their products or reducing the quantity.