Root Beer and Apple Jacks

I thought I might kick off with a dull paragraph about Americanism and how it affects our proudly 'British' lives and so on and so on. Although I thought I might complain [this may become a recurring theme] about how it's a very selective Americanisation of our lives. Mostly because I, personally, adore Root Beer. I'm pretty sure when I die I will be greeted with rows and rows of the glorious liquid. In my small town, and the one nearest to me, I know of two places that sell Root Beer. So I drink Dandelion + Burdock instead. I don't mean to drink obscure and expensive drinks, honest. Apparently, McDonald's used to sell it, but, alas, there was no demand for it, and so it was taken off the menu [cue much sobbing from me and the other three or four root beer lovers in Britain]. It would've also meant I don't have to go an half hour car journey and pay £1.40 for a single can of Diet Root Beer.
In case you haven't noticed, I really, really like Root Beer.
My other point are Apple Jacks. For my lesser-enlightened British counterparts [or just Americans that have never eaten Apple Jacks], they are a heavily-artificially-flavoured and coloured cereal that are roughly Golden Nuggets, just appley-flavoured. I'm assuming that the idea is to trick people into believing that they contain some apples and therefore nutrition. However they may contain apples now, as I haven't had Apple Jacks for two years. Which is precisely my point.
Apple Jacks, to my knowledge, are sold in one place in the UK. This one place doesn't happen to be near my house. More accurately, it is in Greater Manchester. Me, being roughly an hour south of London, puts me at least a 5 hours drive away. And I've lost the link to the online shop that sells it. And finally, the even more important fact that my mother would most likely chew her own leg off before even thinking to allow me to eat something with as many additives as I think it has.
But why is it, that even in the time in which I swear I once saw cheese in a spray can [WHY? What could possibly go through someone's mind when they think that cheese in a spray can would be a good idea?!] that I cannot buy a can of root beer that hasn't had to be imported from the US? And why can I not buy Apple Jacks in my cereal aisle [along with other gloriously unhealthy and crappy cereals that I could only dream about, meaning Lucky Charms and the like]? Although coming to think, the second question can probably be answered with the EU.
I shouldn't complain too much, I only have to take a simple half-hour car journey to my closest can of root beer, or if I dare to need a choice, a Starbucks. And who could possibly want more?