Where can I buy real British groceries online in the US?

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Avery_Thorn@reddit

This is going to go better if you mention what city is close enough for you to get to.

For example, Jungle Jim’s has a great British foods section! And in the unlikely event that you’re near enough to visit either of their Cincinnati locations, that would help… :-)

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When people ask for things to do, I often mention Jungle Jim’s. A lot of people are like, “really, you’re suggesting a grocery store?” I try to explain to them that it’s like if an amusement park and a grocery store had a baby.

But, the people who actually go there always come back and tell me they get it, it was worth the trip, they understood why I suggested Jungle Jim’s as “something to do”.

People from nearer cities like Louisville, Columbus, and Indianapolis have told me Jungle Jim’s alone would make the occasional day trip to the Cincinnati area.

We’re incredibly lucky that eccentric entrepreneur opened his store here and not somewhere else

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shelwood46@reddit

Yeah, the prices at a brick & mortar stores are going to be way way better. In my area, Wegman's has a great international section, and even my dinky little Foodtown has a modest selection of British stuff (tea, candy, elderflower syrup, etc).

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Kingsolomanhere@reddit

The variety at Jungle Jim's is amazing. My son married a girl that grew up in Germany and she was so excited to find candy she had loved as a kid. She bought a bunch of candy bars and other stuff from the German aisle/section

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MrLongWalk@reddit

What are you looking for?

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ScotiaG@reddit

Would love to find fresh Warburtons bread, but accept that I never will.

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vwsslr200@reddit

Warburtons? Seriously? It may be less sweet than American sliced bread, but at the end of the day it's still factory made crap. For the price of getting it brought across the Atlantic you might as well just buy actual bread from a bakery.

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Individual_Hunt_4710@reddit

it isn't actually less sweet. 1.2 g of sugar vs 1.0 for US white label

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ScotiaG@reddit

Yes, seriously. I like that bread and would love to have it again without having to fly to the UK.

The original question asked about British products being available in the USA, I don't know how it turned into a discussion on the quality of bread.

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vwsslr200@reddit

That's why Reddit is a threaded format. It allows comments and discussions not directly related to the original post.

Recommend finding a good local bakery - the only thing you'll miss about Warburtons will be the price.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

Nah, I’ve searched high and low for a way to get British bread but it’s not out there.

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MrLongWalk@reddit

Do what my grandma does, make your own.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

I do. I got a bread machine a few weeks ago and it’s great.

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MattieShoes@reddit

Bread machines are neat, but really, bread is dummy simple even without it. A dutch oven is handy for getting a steamy oven environment though.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

I used to do a lot of baking but I have chronic back pain and can’t stand for the periods of time required to mix, knead, or bend to take bread or cake or cookies in/out of the oven. Chronic pain changes your life, it really sucks.

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MattieShoes@reddit

I'm sorry to hear that :-(

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

Thanks. It’s ok, it is what it is. I just miss the freedom, you know? Can’t just grab all my stuff and start baking up a storm. But I have 2 incredibly talented DILs who love to bake, and I love to see their creativity.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

Downvoting me for getting a bread machine is hilarious.

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MrLongWalk@reddit

Seems like you found a way to get British bread

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MrLongWalk@reddit

How do you propose to have “fresh” bread shipped across the Atlantic economically?

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TooManyDraculas@reddit

There's an Irish butcher in Brooklyn, called the Butcher Block. Carry both Warburton's and Brenanns. Or at least they did pre-covid. You pay a premium for it. And it is still fresh.

Thing can be shipped pretty fast these days. "Ecconomically" is seldom the point with these small scale international imports. No one's selling them as or buying them as every day staples, cause the added cost.

But it's not impossible to get things over in a timely fashion at a price that's affordable. We're not talking tea clippers and 4 months to cross.

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ViewtifulGene@reddit

Shoot it out of a high-velocity cannon.

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vwsslr200@reddit

It's not fresh, it's factory made sliced crap. It would be possible to bring across the Atlantic, but nobody bothers because for you can get much better bread in America for the cost.

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MrLongWalk@reddit

Yeah but UK bread good, US bread bad, innit?

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ScotiaG@reddit

I don't.

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hobokobo1028@reddit

My grocery store sells plain bread, which can be made into plain toast

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ToastMate2000@reddit

Um, I think you mean they sell untoasted toast, not real bread.

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thomasp3864@reddit

You must be German.

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GaryJM@reddit

Do you have a lot of homesick Scottish and Irish people in your area?

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Maquina-25@reddit

There is almost certainly a small grocery store that specializes in that kinda stuff in your area.

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TooManyDraculas@reddit

That's reliant on having a decent sized British/Irish/Commonwealth community nearby. And oddly enough it doesn't always happen even with that. I'm in Philly. Large Irish American community. Plenty of Irish and British Immigrants.

Not really a store like that here. There's a grocery store out in the burbs that pitches itself explicitly as an Irish market, and selection is better than ye olde international aisle. But not great. Mostly candy and cookies, low grade breakfast meats.

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Redbubble89@reddit

I know a pasty bakery in the next town over but they aren't abundant.

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H1landr@reddit

British groceries?

Groceries. It's such a an old fashioned term. It a beautiful term. Groceries. So it's a bag with different things in it.

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Yankee_chef_nen@reddit

You don’t need to buy online, go to Publix, Wegman’s, World Market or something like one of those

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oughtabeme@reddit

World market nearest me has a huge selection

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Untamedpancake@reddit

Depends where they live. There's a Wegmans about 180 miles from me (I'm in northern Michigan) and I've never seen a Publix or World Market.

We do have grocery stores with international sections but even at the stores with the widest variety, I don't think I've ever seen a British foods aisle.

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_hammitt@reddit

My Super One in rural northern MN has a shelf of British foods in the international aisle - it's more common than you'd think!

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tcspears@reddit

I'm in New England, and we have a ton of British and Irish grocers, but also most large supermarkets carry British goods (Heinz Beans, McVittie's, Ribena, Mushy Peas, and all the pantry staples.)

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LonelyAndSad49@reddit

This is the only place I’ve found that had a pretty good shipping price.

https://www.britishfoodshop.com/

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Tuna_Surprise@reddit

https://myersofkeswick.com/

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Lex070161@reddit

Why would you want to?

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Help1Ted@reddit

Apart from the actual international section of your grocery store you can check small local shops. I have an Indian grocery store that has a small section of various things from England. The owner has actually told me if I wanted anything in particular from there that I could just ask. They get a delivery every month and they would just add whatever i wanted to their order

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daithi191@reddit

most places suck for selection btw but you can use McGrocer and mixstuff from different UK stores, stores. its like shopping at Tesco from your couch hahaaa...lemmi know if you need help.

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Akito_900@reddit

What, like ketchup-flavored beans and Jellied Eels? Room-temp milk?

Laughs and flies away on a bald eagle

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curlyhead2320@reddit

flies away on a bald eagle

💀💀🦅

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GaryJM@reddit

UHT milk is very uncommon in the UK. If you're going to mock us, please use accurate stereotypes!

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TexasCoconut@reddit

Foreigners think we all eat Kraft Singles (Plastic American cheese) only, so you will pretend to drink warm milk and like it!

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MattinglyDineen@reddit

I was thinking gopher intensities.

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tacobellgittcard@reddit

Can’t go wrong with a nice Toast Sandwich

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Peeeeeps@reddit

Do you happen to live where Meijer grocery stores are? They have an international aisle and typically have some supply of British foods and drinks.

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everything_is_cats@reddit

It depends on what you're looking for.

Tea is the easiest to find. You can find that at any grocery store.

Target carries Marks & Spenser brand food items around holidays, but the stuff is mostly expensive for what it is. They also sell imported tea year-round.

Trader Joe's sells lemon curd imported from England.

Cost Plus World Market carries other imported British food items. This is where you can find things like double Devon cream, clotted cream, cans of mushy peas, etc. Avoid the Scottish lemon curd here. It's not as good as what you can get at Trader Joe's.

If you live near any large city, you probably can find a Trader Joe's and/or Cost Plus in your area. Plus grocery stores for tea.

If you have an international market in your area, this is another place to look for British food items. The one near me has an entire aisle that is just tea. There is another aisle that has British snack food items that you can't find at any of the other stores I mentioned.

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gfunkdave@reddit

If you’re in Chicago, Mariano’s has a lot of British, Polish, and German stuff in their “ethnic “ aisle.

Otherwise Amazon has everything.

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MisterScalawag@reddit

i always find it interesting that aisle also contains mexican and italian cuisine items, usually other stores ethnic aisle is mainly asian stuff

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AegisofOregon@reddit

Amusing that three very stereotypically white countries are in the aisle usually dedicated to stereotypically dark tan countries

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gfunkdave@reddit

Nah, it’s because there’s an entire aisle of Mexican groceries and these are the other big ethnic groups in the area.

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MisterScalawag@reddit

they've also got a decent amount of Greek products, i was told that apparently the owners are Greek ancestry or something like that

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freecain@reddit

There is a Turkish market by me that has a great selection of international products - including British, Norwegian and Australian packaged goods.

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oarmash@reddit

what city? what snacks? need more details.

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TransplantedPinecone@reddit

OP has left us high and dry. I'm dying to know too.

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avelineaurora@reddit

I've had really good experience in the past buying from English Tea Store! Reasonable pricing and great shipping since they're located right in Pennsylvania.

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BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7@reddit

If you live near a major metro area I'd be willing to bet there is at least one if not several legit British grocery stores, they're usually small but have the major snacks and condiments (and freezers full of meat pies).

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BoldBoimlerIsMyHero@reddit

World market if you have one nearby. I buy Taytos from Amazon. (Not British, but you get the idea).

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Human_Management8541@reddit

Guaranteed Irish is a store in Durham NY. They have a website and they ship anywhere.

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vwsslr200@reddit

I've been wanting to get place to get proper British snacks and pantry staples, without remortgaging my house

You can't. Internationally imported niche goods are gonna be expensive, no way around it.

I recommend trying to find a British food store nearby over shopping online - most decent sized cities in the US will have one somewhere. Less likely you'll run into issues like melted chocolate, etc. You'll still have to remortgage your house though.

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cookie123445677@reddit

Our local grocery store has an international aisle and they sell British foods like Ribena and those Jaffa cakes. They're just a Kroger.

I see Walkers crisps in Walmart, too.

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SiRyEm@reddit

Good luck. Seems like a niche market to me. You don't hear of many British foods that are worth export. There are some, but not a lot. Most of the stuff I loved while stationed in England were foreign foods.

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SiRyEm@reddit

Why would Americans want British snacks? The number of Americans that would fit in this niche would be so small you'd probably never meet them. You're better off asking on a British site.

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cottoncandymandy@reddit

World market.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

I can get some items from HEB and World Market here in Texas. Salad cream, soups, quite a bit of stuff - but v expensive. The one other place I’ve used is the English Tea Store website. Shipping is expensive, but they do include some freezer bags to keep items cool. Other than that, I have to wait until I visit and bring loads of stuff back, or when I get visitors, ask them to bring foods with them. Amazon can also be an option, but I’m trying not to use Amazon anymore.

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needsmorequeso@reddit

Sometimes when I’m feeling fancy I get British digestive biscuits at HEB.

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

Not Rich Tea?

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needsmorequeso@reddit

I’ve been buying fancy tea from a small business in the US. I might be doing it wrong mixing and matching cultures like this, lol

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Melodic_Pattern175@reddit

Just an aside, I can’t imagine how much they’re going to increase the cost of these UK goods. I don’t drink Ribena, but always looked at the cost with horror (almost $10!) I wonder what it will cost by next week.

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notadamnprincess@reddit

The Fiesta stores in my area have a really good international section with a lot of British options. I go for the lemon curd and Crunchie bars myself :)

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Danibear285@reddit

Drop you location dawg

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Justmakethemoney@reddit

In Kirkwood, Mo (St. Louis), there's an AMAZING store called global foods.

Most things are imported from their country of origin. Each aisle is 2-6 countries, plus fridge and freezer cases, and some items (tea, chocolate, ramen, rice, alcohol) are consolidated in some areas. The UK section, not including the stuff in the consolidated areas, takes up almost an entire half of an aisle.

I cannot get out of that store for under $100.

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Dependent_Home4224@reddit

When I lived in Japan I came to accept that if I wanted some food that I was missing I’d either have to make it myself or convince a friend to come stay with me and in exchange for free accommodation bring me a box of captain crunch.

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No-BrowEntertainment@reddit

There might be a store near you that sells British goods. I’m not sure where you’re located, but there are at least two near me in Georgia.

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HurtsCauseItMatters@reddit

Seconding the folks that say World Market.

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WichitaTimelord@reddit

Our Kroger affiliate here in Wichita carries stuff as does Worlf Market. It’s the same sort of stuff my family would bring from the UK but more expensive than what you pay in the UK. I wanted some English mustard and could get it local but waited for my parents to bring some since it was like £1.5 there and $4+ here

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