What would an American want from England?

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Bitter_Ad8768@reddit

Jaffa Cakes exist in the US, but they're not very common.

Black currant flavored candy is virtually nonexistent here. We use grape instead. If you've never had it, it is a particular varietal known as a Concord grape and it is a very distinct taste unlike any other grape or wine.

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BigBlueMountainStar@reddit

So blackcurrent squash would blow peoples minds?

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2013toyotacorrola@reddit

lol the whole concept of “squash” would have to be explained—in the US it’s either a verb roughly synonymous with “squish,” a sport, or a gourd. Squash as a term for a beverage simply doesn’t exist here, and only people who were raised on British children’s literature would have a faint tickle in the back of their brain saying “why do I think that’s some kind of drink?”

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crazypurple621@reddit

Correct me if I'm wrong but "squash" would be the equivalent to a fruit flavored sweetened juice like beverage? The closest equivalent we reallt have in the US is the gallons of things like sunny d.

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VeroJade@reddit

No, it's equivalent to the Juice Concentrate you get in the freezer section. You put it in a gallon pitcher and fill it up with water and mix.

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MPMorePower@reddit

Oh man, you just destroyed one of my last unique memories of Hong Kong. The first time I went there, I was fully expecting to see lots of hilarious “chinglish”, and I wasn’t disappointed (I thought).. they had “car parks” and “expiry” dates for credit cards.

One-by-one I learned that pretty much all of them actually came from UK English. And now you’ve just killed the last one that I didn’t even remember until just now, the time I was offered a selection of fruit “squash”. Haha silly Chinese people! You called it that because you squashed the fruit to get the juice out right? Nope, apparently they got it from the British.

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2013toyotacorrola@reddit

Hey I made it through three years of law school and one year of practice saying “motion to squash” instead of “motion to quash,” so misconceptions abound 😂

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Live-Ad2998@reddit

The legal offices of Zucchini, Butternut, and Hubbard.

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sgtm7@reddit

Good catch. When I read the post, I assumed it was a black currant mixed with squash, to make some kind of fruit and vegetable mix.

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rememberimapersontoo@reddit

eurgh

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pencloud@reddit

the equivalent would be "cordial" I think.

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Zaidswith@reddit

I remember old school frozen squash that you could buy in the US, but I haven't seen it in decades and never, of course, in black current. They were more commonly called frozen juice concentrates, but I remember the term squash as well.

They might still be around. I really don't know.

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GracieNoodle@reddit

I'd love that!!! yeah I'd be amazed if I saw that here.

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Ok-Plenty-4808@reddit

I got addicted to ribena when I lived in the UK. You can occasionally find the concentrate in US grocery stores, but it is rare, and usually in places that cater to more international customers.

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4737CarlinSir@reddit

You can sometimes find Ribena in the international section in supermarkets

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These-Ad2374@reddit

Lol I thought you meant something that was flavored with blackcurrent and squash before I clicked the link & remembered that “squash” is a type of drink haha

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Bitter_Ad8768@reddit

It would be a novelty for sure. I think most people would be open to trying it.

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sto_brohammed@reddit

Gonna sign on to blackcurrant too. I live in Europe and I love the stuff.

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GrunchWeefer@reddit

The reason we don't have it here is that it is necessary for white pine blister rust, a fungus deadly to white pines, to grow and infect the pines. As Europeans like to point out, we build everything with sticks and those sticks are pine. We decided blackcurrant isn't worth it compared to the thing we build everything from.

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Alarming_Long2677@reddit

the northwest has them but I think they come from canada.

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SnooStrawberries620@reddit

https://www.currantc.com/?srsltid=AfmBOooXmVe5q7fjrhtP7RBVl7TLOT2Ha2f2jvjAdSIiAMTeMcnO57Ao

1000 US farms currently growing haha

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SnooStrawberries620@reddit

We have it in Quebec and I’d bet New York State near the mouth of the st Lawrence does too

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jenea@reddit

It’s not illegal to grow them anymore at least (although it varies by state). I keep hoping someone will decide to market it as a “super food,” so it will suddenly appear in everything!

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Blue_Star_Child@reddit

We have knock off jafa cakes in the dollar store now. Dollar store brand lol!

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ycey@reddit

That’s what black currant is? Man this whole time I was picturing like a vanilla stick or something. For some reason I thought it was like a spice

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SuLiaodai@reddit

I remember going to the UK and being like, "Blackcurrant? What's that?" I had never heard of them before.

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rimshot101@reddit

Sounds like a neighborhood in London. "I took the train from Bishopsbeard to Blackcurrant."

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Mornington Crescent!

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CookWithHeather@reddit

They are vulnerable to a plant disease that also affects pine trees, so the US banned them for a while and there are still restrictions in many places.

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SuLiaodai@reddit

I never knew that!

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MalevolentRhinoceros@reddit

The slightly more in-depth answer: white pine blister rust is an introduced (i.e. invasive) disease from Asia. Its life cycle swaps between pine trees and currants/gooseberries, so you can't have the disease without both pine and the berries. Since a) pines are native, and b) they're very important economically, the best control method was to destroy the berries.

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Narwhal-Intelligent@reddit

It’s still banned in Maine and North Carolina, but I don’t think anywhere else

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zeezle@reddit

Some states require licenses/permits still but realistically you only need that for commercial cultivation, they might also need quarantine before planting. In my state you need a permit for blackcurrants but not red/white/pink currants or gooseberries, I believe, but a lot of nurseries still won't ship them here because they're not approved to ship Ribes genus plants into the state (even if they're approved for general plants).

That said it's state and not federal level so you're unlikely to get a visit from the USDA at your house confiscating your entire plant collection like you are with black market foreign tree cuttings/scions. (I'm a fig collector and know folks who've gotten The Knock because they just couldn't resist the latest Figues du Monde hype train)

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dwhite21787@reddit

Shit, I didn’t know gooseberries were blackcurrants, I just mowed down a quarter acre of the bastards as weeds

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rememberimapersontoo@reddit

they aren’t

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dwhite21787@reddit

no, they definitely aren't. And I did not have gooseberries, though that's what I was told they were.

we had these tall (1m+) skunk cabbage looking things with dark round berries. I can't find pictures of them in MD ag FAQs.

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rememberimapersontoo@reddit

the gooseberries that are good to eat are green and hairy, and look really tight(?) if that makes sense? like each berry is about to burst open, like the skin is too small(?) lol. they are quite sour to eat on their own but make killer jam, and my mom makes something called “gooseberry fool” which is delicious

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Curmudgy@reddit

It’s the other way around. Black currants are a species of gooseberry, but not all gooseberries are black currants. The more common gooseberries that we’ll sometimes see are larger and green.

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atomatoflame@reddit

They definitely have them at the Pikes Market in Seattle. Gooseberries and both Currants. There's also a ton of pine trees out there.

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Ryuu-Tenno@reddit

Rip

I hope we can figure things out to protect the pines and allow the other stuff back in. And same for England that stuff wont be afflicted by whatever disease so they can send it this way

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Timmoleon@reddit

They’ve been legal in much of the US since the 60s, they just haven’t had a big comeback. The plants are available from nurseries- I planted a gooseberry bush several years ago, and it finally produced a few berries this summer.

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Normal-guy-mt@reddit

They grow wild in several parts of Montana and Wyoming.

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Lupiefighter@reddit

Yeah, they are available at my local food co op, but I haven’t checked the local grocery store for them.

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Hazel1928@reddit

My son and daughter in law did a honeymoon in England. They saw jacket potatoes on menus and when they ordered one it turned out to be a plain old baked potato.

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InterestingDust9877@reddit

These will melt together in transit during summer months

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Grishbear@reddit

For my fellow Americans who want to try a blackcurrant candy, the red snake in Haribo Twin Snakes is blackcurrant flavored.

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Team503@reddit

You can find it in UK stores if you look. Tesco usually carries it in their bigger stores, though it’s pricey.

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InevitableRhubarb232@reddit

Oh yes. Bring all the black currant candies all of them.

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Reviewingremy@reddit

Jaffa Cakes exist in the US, but they're not very common

Aldi do bakewell tart Jaffa cakes. Just saying

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DanciePants12@reddit

Jaffa cakes are the snack/sweet I request from friends when they go to London!

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Proud-Delivery-621@reddit

Second on Jaffa Cakes. The only place that I've seen carrying them is Aldi, but they don't have the famous orange flavor I've always heard about.

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mspolytheist@reddit

I stock up on black currant Strepsils (cough drops) when I’m in the UK.

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Ok_Gas_1591@reddit

I don’t like blackcurrant flavor much; but it’s definitely not a common experience in America, so worth a try.

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Bluestarkittycat@reddit

Do they? Ive never seen then here. I always have to import them

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Bitter_Ad8768@reddit

Aldi and Word Market have them from time to time.

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Bluestarkittycat@reddit

Oh, sweet, just checked my local Aldi, and sure enough they have them. Thanks!

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a_tiger_of-Triumph@reddit

I love Jaffa Cakes! I can't find them in the states, where have you seen them?

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Bitter_Ad8768@reddit

Aldi and Word Market have them from time to time.

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brickbaterang@reddit

My mom was addicted to currant jelly and always had a jar in the fridge.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Lofty Pursuits has black currant candy for mail order.

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dwhite21787@reddit

IKEA has blackcurrant candies

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Darkest_Brandon@reddit

Second for black current.

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Kingsolomanhere@reddit

Send them some spotted dick

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

Have they lived there or would these be completely new to them? I ask as an American who was stationed in the UK for five years. I miss bakewell tarts, Terry's Chocolate Orange, Maltesers (way better than American Whoppers), your favorite bisquits (and yes I know I am talking about what is called a cookie in the US).

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schokobonbons@reddit

Grocery outlet gets Terry's chocolate oranges at off times, in Texas i could get them at HEB, and you can also buy a carton of them off Amazon. I had a chocolate orange every Christmas growing up in California

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themadhatterwasright@reddit

WM and Target sell Terry's Chocolate oranges around Christmastime. They've always been a stocking stuffer in our house.

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

We have a British ex-pat in our area who runs a Chippy shop and sells a lot of sweets along with serving up traditional sausage rolls, traditional afternoon tea, sticky toffee pudding, full English breakfast, bacon buttys, and more. WM was the only source are here until the Chippy shop opened.

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schokobonbons@reddit

Aero bubble chocolate bars, I'm seeing them in some specialty shops but they're not common. And regionally flavored potato chips for in case the chocolate melts.

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Old-Cartoonist-2587@reddit

Aero bar is fun. I had a Ritter sport bar that had the weirdest taste to it so I’m against that. Rhubarb custards, wine gums, jelly babies are all things we don’t have here either.

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examinat@reddit

Anything Cadbury’s that is hard to get in the US. Aero, Curlywurly are a couple of options.

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Commercial-Place6793@reddit

Wunderbars!!! I assume they have them in the UK. I’ve only ever had them in Canada. What I wouldn’t give for a steady supply of those.

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PacSan300@reddit

Crunchie bars are also great.

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triskelizard@reddit

Sitting here savoring a Crunchie bar that was brought to me by a friend visiting from London. Sooooo good

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madeleinetwocock@reddit

Bahaha they’ve been a staple of my diet here in Canada for my whole life! They’re SO good

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Electronic_Bird_6066@reddit

I loooove crunchie bars. I got some Crunchie Bar spread at World Market a while ago and blew through that jar so fast. Like Nutella but with cinder block bits mixed in. Darn it. Now I’m hungry.

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maxintosh1@reddit

Crunchie bars are crack

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Tommy_Wisseau_burner@reddit

You can get them on Amazon… I may have gotten myself a few shipments in my life lol. They’re fucking amazing!

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TheNorthC@reddit

Totally second that. Why is it not available worldwide?

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No_Caterpillar_8573@reddit

I was checking to see if anyone had mentioned Curlywurly. I swear we used to have something similar in the US but I don’t remember what it was called. Also, Tunnocks Caramel Wafers! The company I used to work for was based in Scotland and almost any time someone from the home office came to visit our branch they brought a bunch of those.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Flakes!

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

Aero is always back in the British food section of World Market if you have one in your area.

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oarmash@reddit

Some of these are pretty easy to find in Indian markets - aero is also popular in India too so it gets imported.

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maccrogenoff@reddit

It depends on where in the U.S. I live in Los Angeles, CA. I can find Aero and Curlywurly.

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webbess1@reddit

Cadbury Flakes. I've only seen them in British specialty shops.

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LionLucy@reddit

Have you had one stuck into an ice cream cone? Bite into it and shards of chocolate fall into your ice cream - the best way to eat a flake!

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GenXer76@reddit

London, circa 2003…. I spotted a fully intact 99 floating in the Thames

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KahnaKuhl@reddit

That's a standard McDonald's item in Australia.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Tell me there is a McDonald’s item based on a violet crumble…

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KahnaKuhl@reddit

Sorry . . . 😢

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

What the fuck are the people at McDonald’s Australia even doing, then?!

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omgee1975@reddit

99

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webbess1@reddit

Sounds delicious! I’ve never had it.

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ddiesne@reddit

I’m going to go a step further and say any (genuine) Cadbury product. US Cadbury is made by Hershey and is objectively different than the UK version. There are some specialty shops in the US that do sell UK Cadbury, but it’s pretty rare.

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GracieNoodle@reddit

Ohhh yes. And thank you, now I have to edit my own comment :-) Forgot about the flakes!

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nasadowsk@reddit

Out in NJ, there were only two places I knew of that had them, and they both made it like it was a drug deal, or something. IIRC, there's some stick up Cadbury's ass about them being sold in the US.

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Lupiefighter@reddit

World Market will have them as well. International sections of grocery stores sometimes carry them but it is hit or miss.

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FrauAmarylis@reddit

They are an acquired taste.

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webbess1@reddit

Not for me, I liked them the first time I had them.

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shelwood46@reddit

Oh I can get those at my local grocery store, but they are very expensive (I make a day trip to Canada every summer and always load up on Cadbury and other candies from their dollar store).

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BombardierIsTrash@reddit

They randomly started popping up at damn near every bodega/corner store recently and I have no idea what changed. I love flakes though so complaints from me. Even the Korean grocery store near me started carrying them by the checkout.

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oarmash@reddit

I’ve seen them in Indian groceries. It’s also popular in India so it gets imported here from there too.

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GenXer76@reddit

My favorites right now are:

Prawn cocktail crisps

Boost candy bars

Maltesers

Wispa Gold

Also, I used to be obsessed with Murray Mints. We don’t really have an equivalent.

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veggietabler@reddit

Bring smarties! They are fun and we don’t have them here (we have another thing called smarties but completely different)

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TheLastLibrarian1@reddit

Mcvitties chocolate biscuits with caramel. We call them crack cookies and they make great smores. They’re a bit crumbly so I’m not sure how well they’d survive. Jaffa Cakes are excellent.

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mmbg78@reddit

I gained ten pounds eating sleeves of those damn biscuits when I lived there!!

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TheLastLibrarian1@reddit

They are the best, use them with all of the desserts!

I was in World Market earlier this week and they have just started carrying them. I immediately texted a friend in Michigan who had to drive to Grand Rapids for the closest store but she was able to get some.

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Useful-Leave-8139@reddit

Hobnobs! Yeah, you can sometimes find them here, but I’m sure they’re better from the source! Maybe licorice all sorts? Good quality shortbread? Some nice tea?

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mmbg78@reddit

I’ve seen them in the international aisle of the grocery here but they are pricey!

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letsbakeaboutit@reddit

Yeah, the caramel Digestives are the best and I haven’t seen them in the US.

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TheLastLibrarian1@reddit

I’ve seen the regular caramel biscuits at World Market and Kroger (Indiana)

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letsbakeaboutit@reddit

Darn! My Kroger and World Market don’t have them. I’ll try WM’s website though. I miss those caramel babies!

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TheLastLibrarian1@reddit

I misunderstood, I’ve seen regular caramel at WW and Kroger regularly. The chocolate caramel biscuits are part of a new display they were putting up when I happened to go in. I had not been able to find them in the US before that. They also had a few varieties of Hobnobs in the display as well. It was an endcap display.

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letsbakeaboutit@reddit

I love World Market and haven’t been in a while. Sounds like I need to pop in. Thanks for the tip!

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Ok-Tiger7714@reddit

Hobnob’s

Bassets wine gums

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Pembercat@reddit

HOBNOBS YES

I always bring a ton of them back from England when I visit. (You can find them over here, but they're stupid expensive.)

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Team503@reddit

The Oaty Ones!

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Pembercat@reddit

One nibble and I was nobbled!

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chubba10000@reddit

They're healthy! They're digestive!

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Romaine2k@reddit

Yes to hobnobs!! I also absolutely fell in love with English fruitcake that a friend brought for me, we have different fruitcake here that’s really quite gross.

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Physical_Orchid3616@reddit

Hobnob's aren't a bad choice, to be fair. Probably the best British style biscuits you can buy. But America does far better wine gum type candies than Britain.

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TheNavigatrix@reddit

I disagree. Wine gums have much more depth of flavor than most US gummie sweets. Except maybe Swedish fish.

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Fun-Holiday9016@reddit

Agreed, I love them!

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margieusana@reddit

We do better wine gum candies? I’ve never even heard of wine gum candies.

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Team503@reddit

Shit I never thought of S’mores with them!

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TheLastLibrarian1@reddit

You should definitely try it

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Team503@reddit

I will, I have some downstairs!

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Mundane-Anteater-634@reddit

I was trying hard to remember what those biscuits were called. Perfect. I brought 12 back when I moved back to the US. I miss them. I was an addict.

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ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit

It's well, Scottish, but for me it would be Scottish tablet. A lot of UK confection aren't that hard to find here, but that is for whatever reason.

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SnooStrawberries620@reddit

That was this Canadians suggestion! It will raise the circulating blood sugar of even Americans

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machagogo@reddit

*Scottish tablet.
Never had it, but after a quick google Seems similar to toffee? Or maybe Worthers?

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AletheaKuiperBelt@reddit

More like fudge, but harder.

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mrggy@reddit

It's not chewy like toffee. It's hard and crumbly

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AnnBlueSix@reddit

The closest equivalent that I've found in the US is English butter fudge from Trader Joe's, but it's not the same.

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omgee1975@reddit

You can make tablet easily

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Minotaar@reddit

It's akin to fudge, but if it were pure fucking sugar

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Fit-Vanilla-3405@reddit

It’s like panuchi fudge!

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CookWithHeather@reddit

It’s almost like fudge consistency, but not chocolate.

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Simply_Sloppy0013@reddit

It's Scottish, too, so wash that Scottish tablet down with some Irn-Bru!

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spynie55@reddit

Irn bru humbugs are gorgeous and a more intense flavour than the drink itself.

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Leading-Summer-4724@reddit

This would be what I’d be excited to receive as well.

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SnooStrawberries620@reddit

A Scottish bitter tablet or equivalent. Nearly did me in

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kartoffel_engr@reddit

I know my wife is very fond of fruit pastilles. If any family visits from England, they always bring a bunch.

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Curious-Unicorn@reddit

Clotted cream candy. And I absolutely loved the M&S cappuccino bar. Americans love their coffee.

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whaler76@reddit

Kendalls mint cake?

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missbehavin21@reddit

My title and land back!!!!

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BlueGrottoMaillot@reddit

Cadbury chocolate

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AnnDvoraksHeroin@reddit

Wine Gums are what I always request. And I try to get my fill when I’m in the UK. I also love Bounty bars, but I can get those at World Market.

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One_Recover_673@reddit

Branston Pickle

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jrb637@reddit

Prawn cocktail crisps. I loved those

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SensibleBrownPants@reddit

I’ve never had a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, but I’m dying to try one.

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Alternative_Squash61@reddit

Violet Crumble is pretty uncommon in the US

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4Q69freak@reddit

No taxation without representation … but youre a little late asking.

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LivingInspection6187@reddit

Clotted Cream, especially something not mass produced. There are a few international grocery stores that carry it, but it’s pretty much nonexistent in the USA.

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bachennoir@reddit

Y'all have very different flavors of chips (crisps). That's what I liked the best. We can get some kinds of digestives but not as much variety.

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ErylNova@reddit

I visited England once and thought sugar pigs were hilarious, definitely don't see that in the US. I also really liked any candy that's custard rhubarb flavor, I have yet to find that flavor in the US.

And not a candy, but I liked those throat lozenges that are kind of gummy but dissolve in your mouth (pastilles I think). I got sick during my visit, and I had never had anything that was quite so soothing on a sore throat as those. I think we can technically get them here by online order, but they're quite expensive and just not sold at any stores that I know of.

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skaliton@reddit

unironically crumpets. They are a vastly better version of the 'english muffin' we get here

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deluxeok@reddit

have you tried the ones from Trader Joe's? I can't tell any difference between their crumpets and the ones in the UK

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skaliton@reddit

I haven't but thank you I will look into it

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Curmudgy@reddit

Trader Joe’s carries crumpets, but I don’t know how they compare to those made in Britain.

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deluxeok@reddit

They're great!

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snaynay@reddit

Well, one's a crumpet and the other is a muffin... Two very different things.

I will say though, crumpets (toasted, obviously) and good butter are amazing.

PS. Both are not too difficult to make and homemade of either is so much better than store bought.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Needs to be toasted and eaten with butter. But it is more like a pancake than a bread product.

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NPHighview@reddit

If they cook or bake, a can of Golden Syrup and a bag of caster sugar. Unobtainable in the states.

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deluxeok@reddit

I've ordered Golden Syrup (and Heinz Beanz) from British Corner Shop

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LemonSkye@reddit

Golden syrup and treacle are readily available in Wegmans near me.

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realsalmineo@reddit

They sell it at Fred Meyer in squeeze bottles, and on Amazon in the cans. I bought a giant can of the regular golden syrup, and a smaller can of the treacle.

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NoDepartment8@reddit

I’ve been to London a couple of times and I keep thinking about a flapjack I got in an M&S shopette at Heathrow while waiting for my ride to pick me up. Flapjack in the US is slang for a pancake. The closest thing we have to a UK flapjack is a chewy granola bar but that’s an imperfect analogy. I think items like those where the novelty is that something has been lost in the translation are fun. When I returned to the US I brought dozens of single-serving packets of Walker’s crisps (which are basically Lay’s potato chips in the US) in funky flavors and shared them out with friends for tasting trials at gatherings.

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deluxeok@reddit

are you thinking of the Graze packaged flapjacks? Those haunt me

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deluxeok@reddit

We don't have any Swizzels brand candy here - so any of those would be unique! We do have Fun Dip, which is like Double Dip, but the rest don't really have an equivalent candy here.

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prometheus_winced@reddit

JELLY BABIES

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prometheus_winced@reddit

JELLY BABIES

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More_Possession_519@reddit

Sweets are a good one, maybe a marmalade or something that’s local?

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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

Me personally I would like a package of Cadbury Roses. Every time I go, it’s one of the first things I look for lol.

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tocammac@reddit

Kinder Joy - US prohibits toys hidden in most foods (apparently not King Cakes) so those would be fun.

Christmas Crackers - not a usual thing here, except in novelty import shops.

Adele

Haggis

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Complex_Yam_5390@reddit

You have flavors of crisps that we don't have, such as Guinness, cheese and onion, and prawn cocktail. Those are fun for us.

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OldEnuff2No@reddit

Teas, crumpets, a tin Scottish butter biscuits/shortbread.

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Former-Ad9272@reddit

Independence.

...I'll see myself out.

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aucool786@reddit

As an original 13 colony-er, I approve.

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thrwawy4obvreasons@reddit

Holy shit, you’re old! Good job keeping up with tech. You just don’t expect to see a 249 yr old dude using Reddit. Wild times we live in.

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ophelia8991@reddit

I mean, if we were still a British colony we’d have healthcare so…

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photonynikon@reddit

where you would have to wait 3 months to get an appointment

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MungoJennie@reddit

You have to do that now. I had to wait almost a year to see a new PCP.

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aucool786@reddit

Well, A. Our lack of government healthcare is purely our fault. It's unlikely that the federal government will be providing the states healthcare anytime soon, the lobbying runs too deep and they've managed to convince hundreds of millions of people union wide that welfare=bad. It's honestly up to the individual states at this point. B. If we stayed as British colonies (now overseas territories), we wouldn't necessarily be guaranteed healthcare. The NHS, to my knowledge, is primarily for the 4 constituent countries of the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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soulmatesmate@reddit

Do you really want Healthcare run by the folks who run both the DMV and the VA? As veterans how they feel about the VA hospitals. That's the model.

Also, not free, just paid by taxes. Imagine your tax dollars going to pay for those who ruin their bodies.

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Bundt-lover@reddit

As opposed to my tax dollars going to billionaires who let people die so they can keep their money?

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soulmatesmate@reddit

The goal of the current companies and congress is to ruin Healthcare so hard that people flock to socialism based Healthcare.

The better way of doing it is like auto insurance. Pick a company, the amount of coverage, shop around.

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Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit

Better than what we have now. Also, remember the government won't be "running" it, like the VA hospitals. They'll just be paying for it. Personally I'd rather be in. a hospital owned by the government than one owned by the Catholic Church, but to each his own.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

The same organization controls the NHS and the Church of England. CofE bishops are govt bureaucrats by now.

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Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit

Well, that shouldn't be possible in the US, because of the First Amendment. But we all know what that means these days.

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DC5513@reddit

God these talking point are lame. The people who run the DMV’s are at the state level, not federal. And the folks at the federal level have done pretty well with Medicare, Medicaid and, yes- the VA, which has a 90 percent approval rating from veterans who use it, including those in my family. Meanwhile, because people like you have been suckered into thinking everything has to be done at the whim of the free market, we now live in a country no westerner would want to immigrate to because we’re the only nation where people go bankrupt because they get sick.

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soulmatesmate@reddit

That also is because of the government. During WWII, a freeze was placed on pay raises. The way to sneak in a legal raise was for the employer to pay for health care. That's a US thing, and it's stupid. It would be far more competitive if people paid for it themselves. I'm stuck with the largest, least like insurance company, but have switched both home and auto in the past few years.

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mistiklest@reddit

If you have insurance, you already pay for this.

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aucool786@reddit

You're right, our government is a mess, but I'd rather an entity whose entire purpose is to care for its people than private corporations that see people as things to profit off of. And yes, paid for by taxes, but that's precisely what our taxes are supposed to be for, rather than throwing away hundreds of billions of dollars at a military industrial complex that can't pass a single audit.

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Bawstahn123@reddit

>Do you really want Healthcare run by the folks who run both the DMV

Way to repeat talking points from 20+ years ago. In my experience, the DMV is fine.

>and the VA?

...you do know the VA is deliberately crippled by Republicans in Congress as a talking point, right? Just like how they fuck over the US Postal Service, then point at it and claim they need to privatize mail-delivery, because the USPS is "so inefficient".

>Also, not free, just paid by taxes. Imagine your tax dollars going to pay for those who ruin their bodies.

I genuinely don't give a fuck.

On the National scale, my state pays for the fuckups of a lot of dumbass states. Why is this any different?

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Wyklar2@reddit

I’d like to know that if I’m injured in a car wreck or get cancer I won’t have to sell my house to pay for treatment.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Do the current Commonwealth Realms have universal healthcare? Australia, Canada, New Zealand (and the UK) do, but I don’t know about the others. What about the other Commonwealth (non-realm) countries?

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IReplyWithLebowski@reddit

Every high income country in the world does.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Correct. I think the biggest change would have been that slavery would have ended a generation earlier.

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Bawstahn123@reddit

>Correct. I think the biggest change would have been that slavery would have ended a generation earlier.

Friendly reminder that pretty much all of the Northern states effectively-abolished slavery within their borders decades before the British did

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TheNorthC@reddit

That is fair, and not forgotten. The abolition of the slave trade was still decades before the outright abolition of slavery.

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gdawg01@reddit

William Jones has entered the conversation.

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johnwcowan@reddit

Promptly followed by a revolution in the American South. The UK was able to abolish slavery because in 1833 there were only about 800,000 slaves in the Empire to free (vs. more than 2 million in the U.S. at the same time). In addition, intensive lobbying by Southern slaveowners might well have prevented the Slavery Abolition Act from passing at all.

In addition, the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783 by judicial process was a direct consequence of the wording of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, which in turn was a consequence of the Revolution: "All men are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties...." Had this language, ultimately from the Declaration of Independence, not become foundational, there might have been even more slaves in North America.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Yes, I agree that it would have most likely resulted in rebellion and war in the south.

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rimshot101@reddit

And maybe without the most deadly war in American history.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Although the decree ending slavery might have led to a rebellion and independence, and that might have led to slavery being legal for even longer.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Other British colonies that peacefully sought independence seem to be OK too, so it isn't the flex people may think it is tbh. Brits don't even think about it, or care.

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Bawstahn123@reddit

>I mean, if we were still a British colony we’d have healthcare so…

The American healthcare clusterfuck is firmly a result of our own doing, and something we could change in a comparatively-short amount of time if there was the political will to do so.

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Maronita2025@reddit

Why do you say that? Bermuda is part of Britain and as far as I know they do NOT have universal healthcare.

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Former-Ad9272@reddit

I'm not defending our healthcare system at all, but I'm never ok with bowing down to Chucky 3.

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Aggravating_Bell_426@reddit

My family came to the US over 2 centuries ago, from Scotland. Family mythology was it was two steps abead of tbe noose for "sedition" as we were ardent Jacobites.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Quite a few who fought in the `45 wound up under the Stars & Stripes in the US Revolution. Scots on the other side, also.

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CurlyNippleHairs@reddit

Wow you're old

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jerseygirl527@reddit

Also a 13 colony-er , approved

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Vachic09@reddit

Seconded

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Ryuu-Tenno@reddit

Third, and ill make sure to sign my name large enough to be read without glasses

Or in braille to make it funny

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pyramidalembargo@reddit

Based on the last election, we should have stayed with the Crown. The people obviously want a King.

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mmmhotcoffee@reddit

Trump should take over England and make it the 51st state as payback for colonizing us

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pyramidalembargo@reddit

Trump needs to be in The Tower of London.

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IReplyWithLebowski@reddit

Us being the native Americans?

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Bluejay416crazy1@reddit

I was gonna say, at this point? Citizenship.

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Team503@reddit

As an American living in Ireland (two countries that violently fought the British out) I double approve.

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Fun-atParties@reddit

No, no, no. Take us back, please

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Crankenberry@reddit

Lmao I can't hear to ask the opposite

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Heavy_Gap_5047@reddit

As well as a thank you and apology.

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dodadoler@reddit

Tea

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Chay_Charles@reddit

Toffee, Simpkin's and Cavendish & Harvey candy tins

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whatthepfluke@reddit

I always wanted to try Squash!

I'd also want some of your wacky flavored potato chips and some really good chocolate. American chocolate sucks.

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Gnumino-4949@reddit

Flake!! Murray Mints!

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Muted-Adeptness-6316@reddit

I am sorry I can’t give a definitive answer, I just wanted to say this is a very thoughtful idea! Whatever you send will be much appreciated and enjoyed!

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Buttcrackula69@reddit

Bovril

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dr-tectonic@reddit

I think wine gums are very British and a bit different from anything we have here.

We also don't have much in the way of aerated chocolates, so an Aero bar or Wispa would be novel.

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AccidentalSwede@reddit

When I was a kid in the 70s (US), there was a great chocolate bar called Chocolite. Basically an Aero. Haven't seen it in forever.

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TheNavigatrix@reddit

I love wine gums. Black currant pastilles also don’t exist in the US (anything currant-flavored, actually). Licorice all sorts, but not everyone likes these and you can find them. Garibaldi biscuits or Hobnobs. I miss British Malteasers (US ones are different).

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ExistentialCrispies@reddit

Fruit Pastilles, both mixed flavor and black current can occasionally be found in import shops. Decades ago both those and wine gums were illegal to import from the UK because they are technically beef products (gelatin) and thus subject to the mad cow import restrictions. I don't think that's a thing anymore though (US has since had mad cow instances), or at least they're getting here somehow.
There's an asian market in SF that has the tubes of black currant fruit pastilles and I buy a bunch every time I pass it.

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ExistentialCrispies@reddit

My mother is English and I am desperate for wine gums all the time but the only place you can get them is occasionally in british import stores (few have them) or from Canada.
I looked this up many years ago and the reason they weren't imported historically to the US was because it is a beef product (the gelatin), and as such, at least in the past, wasn't legal to import to the US because of mad cow, and this technically qualifies. But mad cow was found in the US 20 years ago for the first time so that rule would be obsolete if even still in place. You can get them on Amazon but it's crazy expensive for candy.

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auntlynnie@reddit

Flake!

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nopointers@reddit

I’m just gonna leave this here: http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html

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chubba10000@reddit

That was immediately where my mind wend. One of the greatest passages in literature.

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Ilsluggo@reddit

As an American (living in England), I agree, Wine Gums are a uniquely British treat that are familiar enough (not dissimilar to Jujubes) that most anyone will be willing to try them, but unique enough - the average American has probably never even heard of, never mind tasted black currant - to be special. Maynards, of course.

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crazypurple621@reddit

Cherry creme milka bars are one of my all time favorite candy bars. We can occasionally find a store in the US that carries them, but it's rare.

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Nilla22@reddit

I was coming to write Aero chocolate! Soooo good. Def this.

Also send them some tea :)

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GracieNoodle@reddit

I do agree with you. Oddly enough, my middle of the road grocery store actually carries the wine gums but I've never seen the fruit pastilles on a shelf anywhere, ever.

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NoDiscipline4640@reddit

We have English Wine Gums in Pennsylvania. I love them.

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IainwithanI@reddit

I always stock up on wine gums, especially now that World Market no longer stocks them.

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TheNorthC@reddit

A Crunchy bar perhaps?

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LHCThor@reddit

HP Brown Sauce

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AccidentalSwede@reddit

Cadbury dairy milk chocolate. Far superior to the US version.

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LHCThor@reddit

Brown sauce. It’s fantastic

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HereForTheBoos1013@reddit

You can find them here, but rarely, but Cadbury Flake bars slap.

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DawaLhamo@reddit

Chocolate. We can get some good chocolate in the states, but it's all imported from Europe. Having it sent specially for them is a treat.

If they're Doctor Who fans, jelly babies will never go amiss.

If you were sending something to my mom, she'd ask for Olbas tissues. They are not available stateside, but they're marvelous for cold and flu season.

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Pryncess_Dianna@reddit

Cadbury from England is much better than the Cadbury we have here.

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mickeyanonymousse@reddit

I always ask my friend to bring me those bacon flavored crisps, I think they are called Frazzles?

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tamoore69@reddit

Lyle's Golden Syrup

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Oolon42@reddit

Here's what I'd want. Unfortunately, some of these things would be impractical or impossible to bring in to the US

Large container of Marmite, Tunnock's Tea Cakes, Lots of "Make Mine a Builder's" Tea, Black Pudding, Lincolnshire and/or Cumberland Sausage

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AgathaM@reddit

English toffee, Skips prawn crisps, millionaire shortbread, custard creams,

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ltsmash1200@reddit

You guys have a lot of different crisp flavors than we do in the US, HP sauce, Branston pickle.

Some grocery stores here do carry things like HP and Branston pickle now but it’s not super common.

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UrbanPanic@reddit

Branston’s pickle is the best burger condiment.

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ltsmash1200@reddit

I’ve never thought of putting it on a burger but I definitely will now.

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AgathaM@reddit

English toffee, prawn crisps (skips are tasty), millionaire shortbread, I have some branston pickle in my fridge. I will have to try that.

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FreshPersimmon7946@reddit

Yes! I would LOVE a bag of roasted chicken flavored Walkers Crisps!

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PseudobrilliantGuy@reddit

Branston is definitely harder to find here, in my experience.

That, Heinz beans (though there probably are some similar tomato sauce and beans alternatives here on the US; I've not yet tried to see if beanie weenies are a good substitute), HP sauce (or their salad cream), and black pudding would be good savory options.

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nabrok@reddit

I moved from the UK to the US. I remember the first time I went to the chip (crisp) aisle and wondering where all the other flavors were.

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margieusana@reddit

I’d want to try a crumpet. And black pudding

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Shoddy_Stay_5275@reddit

You sure you want black pudding? My Yorkshire gram used to eat that. :(

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margieusana@reddit

I’ve just never even seen it, let alone taste. My parents (born in Chicago but maternal grandparents came from Ireland as young adults) used to talk about blood pudding, but nobody ever made any. I wouldn’t mind tasting it once.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Irish-themed taverns† in the US often put a Full Irish Breakfast on the menu with Irish-style rashers of bacon, and both white & black pudding. I am glad I tried those. I don't think I will make them part of my regular diet, but I may have that again on an upcoming Paddy's Day.

† I hesitate to use pub until I have been there. Some places were Irish-founded and continue the tradition and milieu. Others come out of a kit, are corporate owned and cater to stereotypes.

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margieusana@reddit

Good to know!

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snaynay@reddit

They aren't too hard to make. Basically a batter in a ring mould on a pan. Then once cooled, toast them and put nice salted butter on it.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Crumpets are amazing. Easy to bring. Black pudding needs to be refrigerated and won't survive the journey.

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3Green1974@reddit

HP Sauce? It’s becoming more available here but I don’t see it that often. When I do it’s just the regular one. I think you guys get a few more versions than we do.

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crasho7@reddit

National health insurance

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Turdulator@reddit

Kinghthood

That would be pretty cool

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KevrobLurker@reddit

You can accept only an honorary Knighthood, if you want to hold a Federal office.

US Constitution. Article I, Section 9, Clause 8

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Turdulator@reddit

Yeah that’s fine. I have no ambitions for federal office

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randomlybev@reddit

Branston Pickle and directions to make toasties, a can of Heinz baked beans (and directions about how to make baked beans on toast), some good mustards, marmalades, etc… give them something they can enjoy as a meal with friends. Also, pro tip, British chocolate melts easily and may not hold up if shipped. I’d stick with non-melty things so that they are nice when they arrive at their intended destination.

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mytthew1@reddit

Wine gums are really rare here. Many people miss them. US Smarties are totally different from English ones. When I come back from Europe I use my small leftover Euros and just buy a bunch of different things are the airport. I would give them as gifts to my coworkers. If you sent ten or twenty different items from the candy counter something is bound to be a hit.

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kc2112@reddit

British chocolate is so much better than ours.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

Is it? Or is it just better than Hershey's?

Is it better than Dove or Ghirardelli?

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ltsmash1200@reddit

Yeah, I disagree that British chocolate is better than ours.

Cadbury is better than Hersheys but not better than the higher quality chocolates we have here. I’m sure they also have higher quality artisan chocolates there that are on par with ours. It just depends on the company making the chocolate.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Green and Blacks make high quality chocolate bars. And stuff like Hotel Chocolat makes delicious but very expensive boxes.

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ltsmash1200@reddit

I’m sure those are great. That’s what I’m saying, there are plenty of companies in both countries that make good chocolate but when people say this, they’re basically assuming all American chocolate is Hersheys which is garbage chocolate. I honestly don’t think Cadbury is that great either. But higher end chocolate in both countries will be good.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

Yeah, it's like thinking that all American cheese is Kraft American Cheese, or all American beer is Bud Lite. We have other stuff.

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ltsmash1200@reddit

100%

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TheNorthC@reddit

Yes, I agree. There will always be appetite for the luxury stuff. Cadburys has apparently worsened in quality since being bought by an American company, but holds up fairly well, but I haven't had a bar in years because I mainly eat dark chocolate now.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

I can't stand the Cadbury eggs, because of that sugary filling. My taste buds have changed as I've aged, plus I'm trying to cut back on sugar.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Yeah, way too much for me. Loved them as a child, but way to cloying for my palate.

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Outrageous-Pin-4664@reddit

It's funny to me, because just last night my wife was watching a British program about the process by which KitKats are made. It was the first time I'd heard that KitKats were made in Britain. I sat down to watch it with her, and happened to mention that apparently British people hate our chocolate and think it tastes like puke. (I'm a veteran of the Quora food wars.) Before the end of the program, they started talking about that exact thing, and my wife looked over at me like I was crazy for knowing that bit of trivia. lol.

When I saw OP's question, the first thing I thought was that I want some British chocolate, just so I can learn what the fuss is about. 😊

The truth, though, is that I eat dark chocolate almost exclusively these days. I don't care for milk chocolate anymore. I used to get Dove dark chocolate, but now I get Lindt dark chocolate.

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ltsmash1200@reddit

Yeah, I only eat dark chocolate as well.

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unsurewhatiteration@reddit

Even for the nicer brands, chocolate made somewhere that isn't the US is almost always better. US Ghirardelli is way better than Hershey's but still, at least IMO, is not as good as standard Milka or Cadbury from Europe.

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MzStrega@reddit

Unfortunately, Kraft bought out Cadbury’s and the quality of chocolate has plummeted. But get yourself some Swiss chocolate and discover the gateway to heaven!

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

I am thinking you haven't been to Belgium and tried the chocolate there. I used to think that Swiss was the best then I visited Belgium - same trip that I visited Switzerland - and yep Belgian chocolate for the win. I was so happy when a local family opened a chocolate shop in one of our outdoor malls. They are related to original chocolate makers in Belgium and import ingredients from the same suppliers and make Begian style chocolate in Nebraska.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

To save money, buy the Aldi house brands. They are imported.

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LionLucy@reddit

Dove chocolate is the exact same as British Galaxy chocolate, which is probably the nicest to the cheap chocolate you can buy at a petrol station. It’s definitely good!

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Grouchy_Conclusion45@reddit

I really like the three musketeers bars in the US. My favourite cheap chocolate

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LionLucy@reddit

Are they not the same as a Milky Way?

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MalevolentRhinoceros@reddit

In the US, Milky Way has a soft caramel layer as well.

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LionLucy@reddit

Sounds good! More like a British mars bar, maybe

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MarbleousMel@reddit

The Mars Bar is the British version of the US Milky Way. They are similar but not the same.

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Grouchy_Conclusion45@reddit

I think it's the same concept but the taste is completely different (a lot better). I don't like the milk way at all in the UK, but the three musketeers is my favourite. It's a lot softer inside imo and the flavour is more intense

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kc2112@reddit

Better than both IMO.

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Mr_Kittlesworth@reddit

It’s comparable to our nicer chocolate

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winterhawk_97006@reddit

Do you live in some sad part of the USA that doesn’t have chocolate outside of Dollar General? I can think of like 5 great small chocolate companies within 10 miles of me.

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Remarkable_Table_279@reddit

If they read, Turkish delight…and something actually good. If they watch sci-fi, jelly babies. But easiest solution is chocolate

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LemonSkye@reddit

For sweets, if they're a chocolate lover any real Cadbury bars would probably be welcome. We get them in name only and can't readily import the actual stuff; it's part of a licensing agreement that Hershey's has with the parent company.

Also, if they're a Doctor Who fan of a certain age, I'd throw in Jelly Babies. I've never seen them for sale over here, and we don't really have anything comparable (Sour Patch Kids I think are closest, and those are very different).

I don't know how well they travel, but we also don't have an equivalent to Colin the Caterpillar (or any of his offbrand brethren).

I've seen a few people saying Jaffa Cakes, but those are readily available where I am. Dollar General and Aldi both have their own versions that they sell stateside.

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feochampas@reddit

I'd send them some tea and biscuits and have a semi humorous note not to drop it in the harbor this time.

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nach0_kat@reddit

Cadbury chocolate tastes very different in the UK than it does in the US. You also have much more variety of it, we have maybe 3-5 options total. So I’d bring a funky chocolate shape

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krzcowzgomoo@reddit

KitKat chunky with peanut butter

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Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir@reddit

Oh fuck, do they have the Biscoff KitKats in the UK?

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madeleinetwocock@reddit

Canada here , we have them and ohhhhhhhh my god 🤤

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Lupiefighter@reddit

This reminded me that the BigKat was discontinued.

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alegna12@reddit

Spotted dick immediately came to mind.

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BookLuvr7@reddit

Digestive and shortbread biscuits. I've made my own and they're so delicious. Also some novelty types, like Jaffa cakes, etc.

Best to ask them what kind of things they like to eat though - if they don't like sweet things my suggestions might not work as well.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

I have no trouble getting Walker's shortbread & McVitties biscuits.

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BookLuvr7@reddit

I can get walkers but they're overpriced. Never heard of the other.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Typo: only the one T

https://www.amazon.com/McVities-Dark-Chocolate-Digestives-300g/dp/B00M3HTZUE

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Letters_from_summer@reddit

Your kinder eggs have actual toys inside if I'm not mistaken. The ones in the US don't. The US doesn't have a large selection of cadberry.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Please don’t listen to the people suggesting tea. Twinings and PG Tips are available here. But we also have our own tea importers with much better options than the large tea packagers.

Now if you can find a speciality tea that’s considered elite within the UK, that might be different. Personally, I’ll usually get a single estate Assam, but I’ve had to cut back on my caffeine.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

It's Irish, but I start my day with Barry's. I used to live where I could get Bewley's. Amazon has both.

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shriekingintothevoid@reddit

If they like to cook/bake, send them treacle! I adore treacle, but it’s hard to find in the us, and I think of it as a very English ingredient.

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FishrNC@reddit

Decent fish and chips. With a variety of fresh, not thawed, fish.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

We used to have lovely cod and flounder dinners in the Northeast US when I was a kid, with fishmongers' french fries blowing other sources away. The resources have been seriously fished out, dating back to the introduction of factory ships. The old Soviet Union liked to vacuum up everything that swam. Habitat has also taken huge hits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Growing up one of my best friends lived with his British grandparents, so whenever they went to visit England they'd always return with candy. Got me hooked on mint jelly, too.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

USA folks would eat more mint jelly if we ate more lamb. My mother (Irish-descended) always served those together.

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Imightbeafanofthis@reddit

If it was me, I'd ask for Bovril and Marmite. LOL

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TheBimpo@reddit

Unless they’re an Anglophile or have visited England before they probably don’t have much knowledge of what they’re missing. Just bring a bunch of your favorites and local stuff. Or ask them what type of stuff they prefer (chocolate, crisps, fruit candy, etc)

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sideshow09@reddit

This is correct. I’m an Anglophile and I’ve spent a significant amount of my time living in Virginia. All the things I’d want from the UK are very perishable, so that best thing is to just share some of your culture with them as like a surprise. Pick what you like and think would be cool. Also maybe some football fan stuff? Like some scarves? Doesn’t have to be all food, and the premier league is becoming more popular on the east coast of the US.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Promoting Association Feetsball should be considered sedition in the US. 😉

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Dear_Ad3785@reddit

When I was last in the UK I bought a bunch of different flavored crisps & brought them back to my US nieces. They went over well

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mmbg78@reddit

Chocolate digestive biscuits, Mr Kipling Bakewell, penguins, those huge dairy milk bars…

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KevrobLurker@reddit

....Jammie Dodgers...

To go with the fish fingers & custard? [/Dr]

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Leia1979@reddit

The blackcurrant and apple jammie dodgers. I think they taste way better than the original and I’ve never seen them in the US. I’d also add bourbon creams to the list.

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MarbleousMel@reddit

I’ve never seen those!

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mmbg78@reddit

Yes. 🙌

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_that_dude_J@reddit

A legit Cadbury bar. What we have in the US is garbage. We buy imports because of the quality. Or a similar but luxurious chocolate. *Not Ferrero rocher chocolate. Oh yeah, nothing we can get at duty free

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DmlMavs4177@reddit

Heinz beans. Bush's is just not the same.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Heinz is an American company, founded in Pittsburgh, PA. One can buy Heinz Beans in the US, even the vegetarian kind. The 57 Varieties folks did tweak their recipe for the UK market, but they are as American as Ford, which also made plenty of vehicles aimed at the markets of the UK and Ireland.

The more tomato-ey Heinz product in the States was long sold as Heinz Vegetarian Beans, so folks would know there wasn't any salt pork added. We often have the British labelled product in our local shops' international sections.

I buy store brand, generic beans, usually. I like them with my frankfurters. Beans & Franks aka beanie-weenie are often sold together but I like a broiled tube steak on a toasted bun, beans on the side.

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Ok-Border6488@reddit

Flakes and smarties

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plzhelpIdieing@reddit

The Crown Jewels.

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whateverhername_is@reddit

My parents brought me tea back from a local tea shop which I loved! It has several different varieties to try that are uncommon in the US

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JayinNPBch@reddit

H P sauce , also a can of fish roe to fry up

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Jonathanica@reddit

Spezi, wait I can get that from amazon.de so nevermind, nothing

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emily1078@reddit

Rosy apples are my fave!!!!

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A_Likely_Story4U@reddit

I fell in love with Trebor’s Mints!

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Vast-Opportunity1343@reddit

Flakes.

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Early_Clerk7900@reddit

We have stores that sell British sweets. World Market is one of maybe check them online to see what they do and don’t carry. It might give you ideas.

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letsbakeaboutit@reddit

I used to live in England and the one thing I keep paying out the nose for on Amazon because I just cannot live without it is Sainsbury’s store brand Earl Grey tea. I just love it.

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maybeshesmelting@reddit

No idea what your friends would like, but this American would love some blackcurrant tea, orange Penguin bars, chocolate chip Weetabix, salt & vinegar Snack a Jacks, onion marmalade, and rhubarb & cream hard candies.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

My husband loves Turkish delight!

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Possible-Okra7527@reddit

I have always wanted that canned pickle stuff that y'all make sandwiches with... Idk what it is called. I know it's not sweet, but something I have always wanted to try.

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valr1821@reddit

Bring a bunch of flavored crisps. Aside from sour cream and onion, barbecue, and sea salt/vinegar, the U.S. doesn’t have all the flavors that the UK does. Also a bunch of Cadbury bars that you can’t find in the U.S. (the only things you can get in the U.S., unless going to a specialty shop, are the regular chocolate bars - plain/almonds/fruit & nut - and the creme eggs).

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ejbrds@reddit

Dark chocolate Hobnobs. All we can get here are the milk chocolate ones and the dark are SO much better!

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MidnightArticuno@reddit

Timtams!! I loved those—and teach them to bite the ends off and then use them as a straw

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Maleficent_Scale_296@reddit

Cherry Bakewells

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WhompTrucker@reddit

Kinder surprise eggs with the plastic egg inside because they're illegal here 😜 but aero bars for sure

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psu256@reddit

A tin of biscuits with a novelty shape (like a double decker bus, phone box, Big Ben's tower, etc.)

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1996Tomb_Raider@reddit

Actual Cadbury chocolate

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FeastingOnFelines@reddit

Fish and chips. With vinegar…

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FeastingOnFelines@reddit

Fish and chips With vinegar…

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AnnaMPiranha@reddit

Maltesers and Flake bars.

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First_Code_404@reddit

Emily Blunt

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abominable_prolapse@reddit

Anything uniquely British. Some great tea or chocolate. Our candies are generally better than y’all’s but not in regard to milk chocolate base ones.

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Anonymous_Coder_1234@reddit

Tea. Tea has a history, what with the "Boston Tea Party".

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sdhopunk@reddit

Tea, the original fight against Tariffs.

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Curmudgy@reddit

Not exactly. It’s the original fight against corporate welfare. The Tea Act 1773 granted the British East India Company an exemption from export duties. It’s a combination of the specific financial benefits given to the company along with violating the principle of no taxation without representation.

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SlowInsurance1616@reddit

The Stamp Act was more the taxation complaint.

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Curmudgy@reddit

We have better teas directly imported from Asia than the common commercial teas from Britain. See https://uptontea.com for example.

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Majestic_Clam@reddit

The best thing anyone ever brought back from a visit to England was what appeared to be a tube of toothpaste filled with fish. My coworkers and I were all delighted and appalled. The name “Gentleman’s Relish” comes to mind, but I’m not sure if that was it. DELIGHTFUL.

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VWillini@reddit

Heinz Beans! Americans loved baked beans and I really think we need to open our minds to beans at breakfast. I always bring home a few cans of Heinz Beans when I go on trips to England.

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ianfromdixon@reddit

Yorkies, Penguin, Irn Bru, Dandelion and Burdock. Also Cadbury Fruit & Nut. McVities Rich Tea.

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PearlsandScotch@reddit

Tea. I always ask people to bring back good English tea.

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No-Masterpiece-8392@reddit

Cadbury chocolates

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OkAd8714@reddit

I’m American but my fave things are Twiglets and Cadbury Flake and Wispa bars.

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4HobsInATrenchCoat@reddit

If they are Whovians they would probably appreciate some Jelly Babies.

That was one of the first things I looked for when I went to England.

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Red_Beard_Rising@reddit

Meat Pie. We have chicken pot pies, but a meat pie sounds like a red meat version. I'm thinking it's like a meatloaf, but in a pie like chicken pot pie. Meatloaf in a pie crust I guess.

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ThanosSnapsSlimJims@reddit

The dope chocolate snacks. Double deckers, penguins, lions, and the rest.

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Spirited_Cress_5796@reddit

Some type of chocolate bar or snack. I swear even just potato chips tasted better in England than the states.

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GrouchyBirthday8470@reddit

Ahhh crunchies are where it’s at. My mouth is literally watering thinking about them.

So many things I miss from my time living there.

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ginger_princess2009@reddit

I want the universal healthcare and the weather🤣

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kreativegaming@reddit

Those one candy bars you have that's like honeycomb dipped in chocolate are very rare here only seen them once at a fish and chips place.

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Sassmaster008@reddit

Orange Fanta, it's way better in England than in the US. It comes with real fruit juice over there

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natttgeo@reddit

Spotted dick in a can.

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OvercupOak@reddit

Clotted cream and scone mix

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paddington-1@reddit

I don’t know where you live but here in the northeast Market Basket has started carrying clotted cream. Sooo good.

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

I can get clotted cream from most supermarkets by me. And if you don’t want to make scones from scratch, King Arthur Baking sells mixes.

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

A box of King Arthur scone mix belongs in a Vermont gift basket, it doesn’t feel uniquely English to me.

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

I was just responding to the request for scone mix and letting u/overcupoak know that it’s available in the states.

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

Gotcha. King Arthur IS the best!

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Shoddy_Stay_5275@reddit

I can walk to a bakery and buy a scone.

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_jamesbaxter@reddit

The brand sold in the US is not as good. It’s not as fresh tasting and the US sold kind is really dense almost like butter.

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paddington-1@reddit

Oh thx foe telling me. I usually get the cream from a British shop. Idk how this one tastes, but I appreciate you letting me know that!

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

Scones are everywhere in the US.

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

And perhaps some lemon curd?

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Jewish-Mom-123@reddit

Clotted cream is easy to make, so anyone who wants to try it can make it at home.

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BuckTheStallion@reddit

Good chocolate. Please. All we have is Hershey’s and it takes like literal vomit.

Honestly Galaxy chocolate is good, but chocolate is hard to mail. Do it in the winter though and it’ll have a chance to survive. Haha.

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

Where do you live that all you have is Hershey’s? I live in the woods in a zero stop light town of rural NH and it’s still under 30 minutes to a gourmet homemade chocolate shop.

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BuckTheStallion@reddit

Hyperbole is lost on Reddit, I swear.

I have multiple stores within a a few miles that I can buy good chocolate at. That doesn’t change the fact that Hershey’s is the most common chocolate in America, and that most British chocolate is much better.

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

Ok, I agree. A lot of food on our US shelves is terrible in comparison. I refuse to buy cheap garbage chocolate!

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Shoddy_Stay_5275@reddit

We have Lindt chocolate which is top notch.

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chubba10000@reddit

Ready Brek and Wheetabix were always strangely a treat in British care packages when I was a kid.

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tomhsmith@reddit

Christmas Crackers

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EpicSaberCat7771@reddit

Bring them smarties like you have in Europe because the American ones are completely different.

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Porcelina1979@reddit

Upvoting because Smarties are my FAVORITE and you can only find them in shops with English/Irish imports.

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SpunkySideKick@reddit

MANY MANY MANY JARS OF BROWN SAUCE.

I don't know what that addictive stuff is made out of, but it has my heart in a iron tight grip.

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hawthornetree@reddit

Bassetts liquorice allsorts was always what I asked for from my grandmother. We used to import jars of marmite too, but now you can get those at the supermarket.

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PopEnvironmental1335@reddit

Those penguin bar things and the honey candy dipped in chocolate.

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logancircle2@reddit

Flake!

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Fearless-Boba@reddit

A lot of the candies people are mentioning can be found at Wegmans and Aldi's and other bigger grocery stores. Monster munch is not at those stores. Wine gums. Etc.

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jackjackj8ck@reddit

I thought wine gums were wild when I first went

I also love Hob Nobs

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Beginning-Piglet-234@reddit

Pickled onion walker chips or monster munch. Treacle tart. Not sure you can transport sticky toffee pudding. I'm American but follow Brits so these are things that intrigue me.

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swagmaster3k@reddit

I’ve had Cadbury chocolate before but I’ve always wanted a Freddo ever since I heard of it. I stayed in London for 3 days and forgot to get some, my only regret.

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SuperShelter3112@reddit

My kingdom for a black currant skittle!

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rogue780@reddit

Our Cadbury chocolate is not the same as you have there

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Tsquare43@reddit

Tea if they drink it.

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Tishtoss@reddit

Scenery, the people and all the unique foods

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Ok-Guidance3235@reddit

Flakes and Digestive Biscuits. I always enjoy seeing my friends cringe at the name, digestive biscuits 🤣

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sean8877@reddit

"digestive biscuits" sounds so appetizing, I can't imagine why they would cringe lol

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Responsible_Side8131@reddit

Shortbread

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Helltenant@reddit

Tomato sauce flavoured crisps.

I wrote this in British but American English is my first language. Rate my translation!

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Typo3150@reddit

Good for you to ask: A British friend’s mother sent him a bunch of cans of Heinz baked beans for Christmas.

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old_man_steptoe@reddit

my niece always wants Haribo Tangfastics. They don’t have them there and are, objectively, the best

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dell828@reddit

Anything! So many British sweets are unheard of here..

Fruit gums, wine gums, jelly babies, Parma violets, flying saucers, sherbets, humbugs, anything by Bassets.

Things available in the US are Kitcats, and most Cadbury products.

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redhousecat@reddit

Personally, I’d like some paprika flavored crisps

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PegFam@reddit

English tea, made in a kettle. I’ve never owned a kettle lol. But also Scottish… Walker’s gluten free chocolate chip shortbread cookies are crack

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

Walker’s shortbread is in most US grocery stores, isn’t it?

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PegFam@reddit

Not gluten free chocolate chip from my experience

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Mummifiedsu@reddit

Any chocolate would melt! Even in autumn here ( Boston) my mum sent me chocolate and it sat in a metal mailbox until we got home, it was totally melted. Maybe wine gums, various biscuits . I’d just go to m& s and grab some stuff and box it up very tightly. They always have great packaging and sales. Last week when we were over there I grabbed friends the shortbread in London decorated tins,

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Cheap_Coffee@reddit

Send them a can of Spotted Dick. Hours of entertainment.

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Tardislass@reddit

What our London Branch sent to us in America:

Chocolate-Cadbury Roses, Kit Kats

Biscuits. My absolute favs are McVittles HobNobs but I will also gladly take Royal Duchy shortbread cookies.

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Vivid-Fennel3234@reddit

As a reference, we can get a fair amount of “big” UK brands pretty easily in the US. Aero/Flake bars, Jaffa cakes, Digestives/Hobnobs, Wine Gums, Keogh’s chips, Crunchie, Lyle’s syrup, most tea brands, etc are all at the local grocery stores here in the Midwest (and also when I lived in the south). I’d go with more obscure items or flavors if you want a truly “you can’t get that here” gift.

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WhiskeyDeltaBravo1@reddit

Elizabeth Hurley.

Speaking only for myself, though.

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Pamplem0usse__@reddit

Squashes, tea cakes, anything blackcurrant.

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MsAddams999@reddit

We have blackberry sodas here. ICE drinks makes a sugarless one I like and there's a blackberry ginger ale and there are blackberry flavored waters too. It's one of my favorite flavors in drinks actually. It's probably artificial flavoring here but we have it.

The Mars bar there is a bit like our Milky Way but there are many types of chocolate bars from there that we can only get imported and that cost a lot, too much to really indulge in often. The Aero bars, the various Cadbury bars like the Flake. Jellie Babies and odd flavored UK chips those are things that I like from overseas and will try for fun sometimes.

I'm lucky I live in NYC where there are quite a few places that carry overseas candy but the price on them is not too affordable so bring them stuff like that and likely you will make them very happy.

I'd actually never had a Jelly Baby until very recently despite seeing them talked about in Doctor Who. I didn't actually like them as much as I thought I would. They don't taste like gummy bears or jelly beans or stuff like that.

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Glubygluby@reddit

I came to say "Free healthcare" then I realized what you were asking

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brian11e3@reddit

Im actually a fan of Bonds of London candies.

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InevitableRhubarb232@reddit

You can’t ask us, because we don’t know what you have

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emchocolat@reddit

Twiglets. They might not like them, though.

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VirtualMatter2@reddit

Terry chocolate orange

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Chai47@reddit

Marmite

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ARustyDream@reddit

I was just in the UK and had never seen chocolate and lime candy and it was pretty good

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Current_Poster@reddit

Fox's Glacier Mints? They would definitely survive transit.

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ludditesunlimited@reddit

I liked Blackpool rock when I was little.

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carlosmurphynachos@reddit

As a Virginian who is lucky to get a lot of British treats from visiting relatives, I would suggest the following: a box of marks and Spencer’s fondit petit fours (the lemon, chocolate and pink ones), a Cadbury milk tray, Cadbury flakes, really good tea.

You can buy Jaffa cakes and black currant Ribena at the grocery store here in Virginia, so don’t bother with those.

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Antioch666@reddit

If chocolate lovers, when it comes to pure chocolate (and not chocolate covered candybars or similar), most European chocolate beat American ones by far. In particular nicer Swiss and Swedish ones, but also UK chocolate.

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lantana98@reddit

I love Cadbury Fingers!

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Mister_Wednesday_@reddit

Jaffa Cakes and Jammy Dodgers are here, but they are rare. Sherbet Lemons are even harder to find while Jelly Babies are all but non-existent. Other treats to consider: Maltesers, Aero bars, and Simpkin's Travel Sweets.

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crown-jewel@reddit

My mom always has to get Cadbury— Cadbury sold in the US is made differently and doesn’t taste as good. She specifically likes their fruit and nut bars.

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Spud8000@reddit

exotic teas. our selection of tea in the states is dismal

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endogenix1@reddit

Cadbury. All the chocolate here has butyric acid in it and many people think it's gross. Hershey owns the rights to Cadbury in the US and it's not the same. A company tried to start importing real Cadbury a decade ago and Hershey lobbied to make it illegal to import the real stuff. So send some Chocolate that doesn't have puke flavored additives.

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harpejjist@reddit

Real tea. Cadbury’s Branston pickle Clotted cream and scones CHEESE

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seattleforge@reddit

Fortnum & Mason biscuits in a tin.

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AuraNocte@reddit

Mars bars. Yummy.

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ngshafer@reddit

I quite like Aero bars. Jammie Dodgers too, but they're not considered "candy" if that's specifically what your friends want.

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OkContract2001@reddit

Universal Healthcare

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ReluctantPrude@reddit

Cheese and onion crisps, monster munch, my kingdom for English (or irish) sausage, mint Aeros, prawn crisps, different Kit Kats we don’t get in US.

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momofdragons3@reddit

Jakemans

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thatrightwinger@reddit

Lion Bar, Bounty, Coffee Crisp, Aero. Yorkie (not for girls).

All of them will satisfy.

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Valiant_QueenLucy@reddit

Ask if they like narnia... then send Turkish delight. Do not tell them its the worst thing they will ever eat. Ask for them to video call when they taste it so you can share the joy 😁😁😁

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DieHardAmerican95@reddit

Squirty cream. We have it here, but we don’t call it that. Most Americans would think the name is hilarious, and possibly display it as a conversation starter.

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AMA454@reddit

Candy kittens, squashies, Percy pigs / Collin caterpillars, tangfastics.

Jaffa cakes, twiglets, hula hoops, Thai sensations sweet chilli coated peanuts.

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

I am in the US, have never heard of any of those things, and would be delighted to get a gift of items with those names.

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AMA454@reddit

lol I am American and I live in London so I’ve got pretty good intel in this department.

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1st_JP_Finn@reddit

Anything chocolate won’t make it in local transit this time of year. Those Jaffa cakes would be a sorry mess.

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Yggdrasil-@reddit

You can buy jaffa cakes at Aldi in the US now!

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Proud-Delivery-621@reddit

It might just be my store but they only carry the strawberry flavor. I always thought that they were exclusively orange and Aldi doesn't ever have orange.

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msspider66@reddit

I have a box of them next to me

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luthien310@reddit

And they're really good!

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JumpingJacks1234@reddit

Wegmans has them too. I’m in Virginia and there are lots of Aldis and Wegmans.

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Sidewalk_Tomato@reddit

Cost Plus has them, as do the UK sections of the more expensive grocery stores.

I love Jaffa cakes.

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Yeegis@reddit

We have Jaffa cakes here in the states

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Huskerschu@reddit

Sounds like you just ordered the whole trolly on the hogwarts express

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Randygilesforpres2@reddit

I can confirm, never heard of any of these :)

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aquitt@reddit

Twiglets are an acquired taste, but if you like them, they would be a great gift.

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achaedia@reddit

Yesssss I love Percy Pigs

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TheNorthC@reddit

I don't think twiglets would be very popular. They're hardly loved in the UK.

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AMA454@reddit

It’s a marmite thing for sure but they’re fun because they’re so different than anything on the shelves in America. And they’ll last better than regular crisps. When I brought them for my family to try it was about 50/50

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sweetbaker@reddit

Target has OG Percy pigs now, btw!!

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AMA454@reddit

God bless target 🙏🏻

We have a lot of different flavours here though, the fizzy pigtails are the best

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Background_Humor5838@reddit

We have pretty much all the popular British candy and chocolate but we don't have as many of your crisps and crunchy snacks so I would focus on those.

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

Tea. For the harbor!

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TwinFrogs@reddit

American chocolate is shitty garbage. Same with most junk food . Let em know what we're missing ,

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dabamBang@reddit

Here is my common order for people coming to the US from the uk. You can sometimes find these in US stores but they are very expensive.

Digestive biscuits, esp chocolate covered ones
Hobnobs (ditto chocolate)
Crunchies

*walkers cheese and onion crisps

heinz baked beans (green can)

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BananaEuphoric8411@reddit

Walkers English Toffee?

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terra_technitis@reddit

Maynards Bassets Murray Mints! 🤤

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Ordinary-Exam4114@reddit

Is your tea different than ours? I can't remember. English tea bags would ship well and represent.

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RubGlum4395@reddit

Everyday condiments like HP sauce or Branston?

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krittyyyyy@reddit

Not a sweet but the spread you call “pickle” in England is so good and we don’t have that here

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ActiveDinner3497@reddit

Crunchies and more crunchies. My husband special orders them because they are harder to get here.

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msspider66@reddit

A can of Spotted Dick

Years ago I lived near a grocery store that had a small area for English foods, including cans of spotted dick.

If just candy, how about some Crunchie bars?

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

I had to Google Spotted Dick.

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dausy@reddit

Digestives and some tea

Anything tourismy that may have the union jack on it or like..the royal family/something representing the royal family (like a decorative plate)

An actual Euro

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CriscoCrispy@reddit

The UK withdrew from the EU 5 years ago. England uses Pounds (£), not Euros (€).

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Appropriate_Cat9760@reddit

Chocolate digestives

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

An actual Euro

I love to collect foreign currency. It looks great in a scrapbook and it is a great gift from The Tooth Fairy.

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dausy@reddit

I too have currency from different countries. Kids like to pull them out too and look at them.

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Mobile-Bee-1748@reddit

Send them an Irn-Bru

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GracieNoodle@reddit

(Me looking sideways at the case of Rowntree's fruit pastilles I ordered a while ago to just keep me going for a bit...)

Depends on whether they like something fruity or chocolatey or chewy or crispy. We have pretty broad appreciation for anything sweet. You can't lose if bringing anything from the U.K. Seriously!

I have never seen pastilles, crunchy bars, aeros, and a lot of other uniquely British sweeties here. Even the Cadbury's chocs actually made in UK are superior to the stuff made in the U.S. because I think Nestle bought out the U.S. license years ago. It's a point of argument but I am firmly in the camp of U.K. definitely noticeably better.

An assortment of things would be quite welcome I'm sure. I'd actually recommend choosing a few sure wins (anything choc, especially those crunchies and aeros) ) and a few things maybe a bit off the wall, just to try. How about a couple of rolls of the pastilles black currant only? I love those but you'd never find them here, black currant is awesome IMO but not a common flavor here. (Unless you look specifically online.)

There are biscuits we can't get/have no equivalent for. Tunnock's teacakes would make me melt into a puddle but last time I checked, impossible to get here. Would need bubble wrap for travel! :-) Maybe Penguins? Never seen them here. We do get digestives pretty easily.

It is possible to buy some stuff online, but if you don't know what you might like, it makes for difficult choices - and some importers sell stale stuff or only what they think Americans would like.

Yes I was born here but entire family Scottish. When I was a kid we'd get a huge box of sweets/choccies/biscuits from family every Christmas. Absolutely none were available here back then. None. At those times, variety was just as important as the actual individual items. So, I'm biased, but go for a similar approach? :-)

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Emily_Postal@reddit

I like Maltesers better than the American Whoppers.

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LittleHopperXD@reddit

Digestives

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orpheus1980@reddit

Fortnum & Mason biscuits and teas! Nothing like them in the US. And they are ridiculously marked up in the US in the few places that carry them.

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Moln0015@reddit

I want English money

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Mushy-sweetroll@reddit

Quality Street, good tea, Tiptree preserves, nice tea towels

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Smokinsumsweet@reddit

British kit Kats are elite

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SenseAndSaruman@reddit

After 8 mints! And really anything chocolate.

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G17Gen3@reddit

Unlike most of Reddit, I personally think cheap chocolate tastes like.. cheap chocolate, regardless of country. One thing I will admit that the British generally do much better than Americans though, is marmalade. Good marmalade is much harder to find in America.

English mustard is lovely as well, but can be found without too much trouble. That being said, I would be delighted with a gift of a jar of mustard and a jar of good marmalade.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

There is definitely a difference in quality of chocolate in snack bars. US chocolate bars are usually waxy and super sweet. UK chocolate bars are creamy and, comparatively, bursting with cocoa flavor.

We have good chocolate here, for sure, but the shit we buy at gas stations doesn’t hold a candle to what you get at the corner shop anywhere in the UK.

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NonBinaryKenku@reddit

+1 for the shitty chocolate statement.

My wife immigrated from a former colony and still loves that garbage. She gets no competition from me, can have it all to herself.

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klimekam@reddit

Clotted cream, too.

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TheResistanceVoter@reddit

Spotted Dick

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Healthcare.

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Zealousideal-Law2189@reddit

Cadbury Roses! We don’t have them here.

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Pretty much all the chocolate bars. Ours suck.

Millions! We don’t get them. We have virtually zero currant flavors, either.

Pretty much any faves in the UK are things we either don’t have, or they’re reformulated to be sweeter here.

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1CraftyDude@reddit

Smarties. We have a very different candy with the exact same name if they don’t already know that it will blow their mind.

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gdawg01@reddit

Cadbury's. Very different in England. And Better.

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treznor70@reddit

The two packaged foods that I miss from my time in the UK: Millionaire's shortbread / caramel slice / whatever (shortbread, caramel, and chocolate), no idea why it isn't big in the US. And flapjacks (which are nothing like the pancakes the US people would expect).

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designgrl@reddit

My boyfriend always wants wine gummies and ketchup chips.

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Hungry-Butterfly2825@reddit

Freddos

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Key_Figure9004@reddit

There is a specific hot chocolate that I can’t remember the name of, but it’s all over England and has a ton of flavors.

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Silvanus350@reddit

Those cinnamon waffle things you heat over a cup. Those were delicious.

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Electronic_Bird_6066@reddit

Thornton’s Millionaires! I have family bring me tons of them when they come visit. And, embarrassingly Pot Noodles, esp. the Bombay Bad Boy flavor. I lived in London when I was 20 and broke. It’s just comfort food at this point. Ribena would be a treat too!

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Excusemytootie@reddit

I really love anything custard and rhubarb flavored, candies, really anything with that particular flavor. Seems to be quite popular in the UK.

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Honest_Swim7195@reddit

Golden syrup

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InterPunct@reddit

Personally, I would appreciate some perspective on what it feels like to live in a country that was once a global superpower. Asking for a friend.

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Occasionally_Sober1@reddit

Shortbread and good English tea

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jUsT-As-G0oD@reddit

DARK CHOCOLATE NUTELLA.

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DmlMavs4177@reddit

Target has their brand, in Tennessee at least.

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jUsT-As-G0oD@reddit

Like target brand spread?

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Justdonedil@reddit

I see Good and Gather Dark chocolate hazelnut spread in my app and it says I can pick it up in 2 hours here in Northern California.

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TheMightyBoofBoof@reddit

Anything from the trolley, dear

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Affectionate-Arm5784@reddit

Well take the lot!

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payperplain@reddit

Sherbert Lemon are my go to grab in European countries. They are hard to find in the colonies and instead all you can find is lemon drops usually. Also, if you want to have a bit of a cheeky risk, some proper Kinder Surprise Eggs. They are illegal in the US so all you get is the crappy Kinder Joy BS. Not even close to the same. There is no joy in a Kinder Joy.

Other than that, the only other sweet I can think of you can't get is Maltesers. Most things can be found in the US. Very few things can't be kind with a bit of looking now that e commerce is so strong.

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quixoft@reddit

Jaffa cakes, blackcurrant, toffee(we have it but it's not as good).

Definitely not black pudding.

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writerinthedarkmp3@reddit

anything blackcurrant flavored would probably be interesting because we don't have it here. also kinder eggs, the kind that are illegal here (to sell, don't worry you can mail them without issue haha). and send whatever your favorite candies and snacks are, just look them up first to make sure they're not sold here under a different name.

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bjgrem01@reddit

I dont know about your friends specifically, but I would love some UK exclusive Red Dwarf keychain or something like that. We get some great shows from over there, but sadly, rarely get to buy the cool merch that goes with it.

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Jsmith2127@reddit

You can buy jaffa cakes at Aldis. In the US. My son and my MIL get these all of the time.

What I want is chocolate. Copious amounts of chocolate.

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Emotional_Ad5714@reddit

I like Malteasers, Jammie Dodgers, and McVittals Digestives. Lion Bars too.

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Particular-Ebb-8777@reddit

I was gonna say "a blowie" but then I read the post.

If they garden, maybe seeds from local flowers which don't grow in America.

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msut77@reddit

Your kitkats etc are better.

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maybach320@reddit

Blue Raspberry Bon Bons, I still order than from England a few times a year. Not sure why but we have nothing like it in the US. I only know of them because the hotel my company had me stay at when I was in London for business always had a jar of them at the front desk, and eventually a jar/bag in my room after someone on staff realized I was addicted to them.

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bizoticallyyours83@reddit

Aww that's really nice of you.

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TheSwedishEagle@reddit

I love to order the Waitrose Duchy Originals ginger cookies. They used to sell them in the US, but now I have them shipped over.

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WinterMedical@reddit

Some of the weird chips (crisps) you have. We do not have shrimp flavored chips for example.

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GreenTfan@reddit

This American asks for: wine gums, real toffee, clotted cream fudge, Quality Street Christmas tin.

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Irideflamingos@reddit

Bring those fabulous Walker crisps!! You guys have unique flavors I really miss

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ToastetteEgg@reddit

Sausage rolls.

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MadMadamMimsy@reddit

For the fun ones, get a can of Spotted Dick.

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whisperingcopse@reddit

Personally, jammy dodgers, tea, and good chocolate. The average American chocolates suck. I don’t think chocolate would ship ok right now though

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DMacVB@reddit

Bring them some Marmite!

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Intelligent_Pop1173@reddit

I have family and parents from England and Ireland and Crunchie bars, Cadbury Roses chocolates, Aero bars, and wine gums. Tayto crisps also from Ireland (I’m sure England has them too) but the cheese and onion flavor is so amazing for some reason. We always come back with a couple packs lol

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Affectionate_Yam4368@reddit

Y'all have a lot of chip flavors that would blow people's minds in the States (excuse me...crisps). Whenever we go to the UK we always hit up a grocery store for new flavors of crisps.

On the sweet end, a Tunnock's tea cake is always a winner...and the UK also has some truly unhinged gummy candy that we always bring back for our kids (LIPS AND TEETH?!?)

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southernfriedpeach@reddit

I love Cadbury chocolate, although we have it in the US too

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LadybugGal95@reddit

I’ve never been to England, so I can’t give specifics but I lived in both Germany and South Korea for a bit. The biggest revelation for me is sweets that aren’t too sweet. Hit Cookies are my absolute favorites now. When I found out I can get them from World Market I was in heaven. Is there a sweet (cookie or candy) that’s not as sugar laden as what we have here.

As far as savory goes, find a flavor combination or texture you wouldn’t see in America. Broadening horizons is what I love about trying stuff from other places.

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devilbunny@reddit

Jelly Babies. Yes, I watched the Tom Baker years of Dr Who. Much later, I went to the UK and got some. I had to stop because I would down an entire bag in less than thirty minutes while driving.

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LostExile7555@reddit

Sherbet Lemons are my UK candy goto that you can't really get an equivalent here in the States.

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DeepFriedPokemon@reddit

I really like Lion Bars

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

My friend brought me some fruity hard candies that had some kind of fizzy stuff in the middle. I can't remember what they were called but they were delightful!

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Vegetative_Tables@reddit

I’d want to try that “brown sauce” that I believe is a popular condiment in England. Ironically made by a US company if I’m not mistaken.

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Cyclonian@reddit

We have shortbread, but if there is some sort of elite shortbread only found in UK, I'd be interested. Also maybe go with tea? Like whatever premium UK tea. We think Lipton is awesome here...

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scottypotty79@reddit

I brought back some little individually packaged spotted dick at it was a real hit at the office.

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miz_k@reddit

I was over there last fall and bought Cola flavored Sour Patch Kids. They are so good! And not available in the US.

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thrivacious9@reddit

Some Americans (like me) would be delighted to receive a small jar of Marmite. But don’t do this if you don’t know for sure. I would also be delighted by black currant sweets or Ribena.

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AnnieNonnMouse@reddit

Tea... we get the worst of the batch when it comes to tea. Until you have tasted ours, or we taste yours, you dont realize the difference, but once you taste the other sides, you will never look at tea the same. US tea is terrible.

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SirFelsenAxt@reddit

HP sauce.

Although you can occasionally find it in the US now if your local grocery store has a " foreign" section

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taranathesmurf@reddit

I have always wanted to try clotted cream. I don't know how perishable it is though.

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Shortchange96@reddit

Harvey Elliot

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vadutchgirl@reddit

I'd love to have some kinder eggs. The real ones not the ones available here. BTW I'm also in VA and have a good friend England, but she doesn't like sweets.

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MissDisplaced@reddit

Jelly Babies baby!

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Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir@reddit

Omg some Double Deckers please. We only get Lion Bars here. Also, some Jellie Babies.

And maybe Jammy Dodgers if there are cool flavors, but we can now find the original ones here.

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Signal-Anxiety3131@reddit

Turkish Delight, Areo Bars, Scone mix.

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Hairy_Ad4969@reddit

Probably to spend a bit of time with you on FaceTime/whatsapp. It sounds like you had a great time together and now it’s time to plan the next holiday together.

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oswin13@reddit

A friend from England sent me "proper' tea because she was scandalized by the tea in her hotel, and a packet of custard powder. I think the custard is still in a cabinet somewhere because I have no idea what to do with it.

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Kind_Ad5566@reddit

Make some custard and have it with apple pie.

Don't let it go to waste 😋

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

I use custard powder (which is sold in the British foods section of a supermarket near me) to make Nanaimo bars.

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Illustrious-Bus-3396@reddit

I lived in the UK for 10 years. The sweets I miss most: Haribo Tangfastics, Cadbury flakes, and Cadbury curly whirlies.

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Constant-Bet-6600@reddit

Matlow's candies. You can get them over here but you won't find them in stores.

My ENT had them by the lobby desk in his office and got me hooked for a while. He would order them for his office from England at the time; now you can get them from Amazon.

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Brilliant_Meaning151@reddit

Blood sausage

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sundial11sxm@reddit

Lemon curd, Cadbury Roses, etc

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Dobby_Club_@reddit

All the monster munch. And I mean all of it

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-Moose_Soup-@reddit

Keira Knightley?

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Front_Home_9661@reddit

I grew up getting British KitKats for Christmas because y’all’s basic chocolate is much higher quality. Not saying we don’t have nice chocolate here, just that a basic Hershey's bar or KitKat isn’t.

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mess-maker@reddit

Kit Kats in the US are made by Hershey. In all other countries they are made by nestle. That’s why British (or Canadian) kitkats are so different. The chcocolate used is totally different, not simply just a company offering shittier chcocolate for the product in the US.

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Shoddy_Stay_5275@reddit

Our KitKats are cheap tasting and are now made by Hershey.

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mess-maker@reddit

Hershey has been making US KitKats since 1973.

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namesyeti@reddit

Obligatory FUCK NESTLE

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Front_Home_9661@reddit

Oh interesting. Makes sense.

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

Hershey also has the license to make Cadbury chocolate in the US which is why it’s so inferior here.

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Capital-Cheesecake67@reddit

I agree about British KitKats. But have you tried Canadian KitKats? I tried them when visiting as a child. Much better than the American version.

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CptDawg@reddit

Canadian chocolate is far superior to the American version, and we have so many more varieties, ie Coffee Crisp, Mr Big, Crunchy, numerous varieties of Aero and KitKat, Smarties, Crispy Crunch, all things Cadbury and the list goes on.

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Front_Home_9661@reddit

Oh? I have not. For as much as America get dunked on for our overconsumption of snacks we really she short shafted on the quality lol.

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Rj924@reddit

Cadburry Crunchy please.

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Available_Image6792@reddit

A meat pie. Americans don’t know how to make them. Don’t think it would stay fresh though for 5 days.

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Shoddy_Stay_5275@reddit

Cornish pasties!

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nomoreozymandias@reddit

An apology for the Coercive Acts of 1774?

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CapnClumsy@reddit

Jaffa cakes, crunchie bars and Simpkins Black Currant Candy Drops.

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Brilliant_Age_4546@reddit

If they are soccer fans, then a jersey.

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Premium333@reddit

Kinder eggs with the white and black chocolate egg and the toy in the middle can't be purchased in the US.

The recently released US version is a chocolate cream on one side and then the toy on the other.

They might find the real version novel. The real version toys are sorta cooler also.

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LydiaGormist@reddit

"Functioning liberal democracy" might not survive a week in transit, it's true.

Seconding the suggestions for anything black currant-flavored. Allegedly only 0.1% of the current US population has ever tried black currant (although whether that's just the juice, the whole fruit, or all-inclusive of anything with the flavor, I don't know).

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MillieMouser@reddit

What would I want from England? The ability to immigrate.

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DavidL21599@reddit

Pastries

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thrwwy2267899@reddit

As a swiftie and non food related I would appreciate a T-shirt from the Black Dog lol

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Hazel1928@reddit

Custard tarts if they watch “As Time Goes By” I ordered some on Amazon to try out Lionel’s special favorite.

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mekonsrevenge@reddit

When I was young, English friends gave us handmade figurines (Beefeaters, etc.) that were unlike mass produced toys. We loved them.

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imightb2old4this@reddit

Maltesers

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gendeb08@reddit

Ginger nuts

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__-_-_--_--_-_---___@reddit

Prince Harry’s

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Sounds delicious! What is it?

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gendeb08@reddit

It’s a ginger snap cookie (USA) ginger nut biscuit (UK)

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Oh yes please!!! Our ginger cookies/biscuits are pretty subpar. I don't think that there is as big of a market for them here, so there are only a couple brands of them.

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Consistent-Ease-6656@reddit

Real Cadbury. Or any chocolate, really. American chocolate is comprised of wax and regret. If you’ve ever tried to gnaw your way through a Hershey bar, you’ll understand. My nieces used to beg me to bring back bags of Cadbury buttons.

Kinda kitschy, but the chocolate bars from the Historic Royal Palaces shops are seriously delicious to the American palate. I bought a couple for the nieces, and… they didn’t make it to the airport. Hence the stop at duty free for Cadbury Buttons.

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traveldogmom13@reddit

Hob nobs are my jam. My kids love Jaffa cakes and jammy dodgers. Maltesers, golden syrup if they bake. I’ve seen all this at World market but the costs are outrageous. $5 hob nobs. I know they are less than a £1.

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Rich-Contribution-84@reddit

Campbletown whisky.

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luthien310@reddit

The fun flavors of chips, er, crisps. We don't get the same flavors here. When I visited my son we went to Sainsburys and I bought one of every flavor so I could try them all!

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Overall-Astronaut806@reddit

Percy Pig gummies, or squashies gummies

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__-_-_--_--_-_---___@reddit

Dairy Milk

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doinmabest1@reddit

Jaffa Cakes Digestives Jammie Dodgers Everything Cadbury😂

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vibes86@reddit

Chocolate. Yours is a lot better than ours. Biscuits (aka cookies to us). Any kind of dessert treat is usually good. Like somebody else said, black current doesn’t exist here so any of that would be good.

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Teithiwr81@reddit

Rowntrees Jelly babies Bassetts licorice allsorts

That's what I miss most - occasionally find piss poor off brand versions but that's it.

As far as chocolate goes, I'd kill for a raisin and biscuit Yorkie

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Justmakethemoney@reddit

Prawn cocktail crisps

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MissFabulina@reddit

Any of the wild flavors you guys get. We only have a few flavors to choose from over here in the US.

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Outrageous-Sail-6901@reddit

Mr. Kipling anything! From An American that came back with 2 carry-ons full of British snacks and tea. Also brought back a whole Tesco holiday fruit cake.

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puff_pastry_1307@reddit

I discovered squashes here and I love them! I took a big mixed bag of them home and shared with family and friends and everyone loved them.

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Accomplished_Mix7827@reddit

Anything currant flavored could be cool. We don't really have that here.

Nice tea. Our tea selection tends to be much more limited than yours.

Clotted cream is also not really a thing here.

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Next_Ad_1323@reddit

As an American I have to say that I am a yuuuuuge fan of sherbet lemons. They are addictive and I don't think we really have them here. We have candies that are kinda similar called Lemonheads, but they are soft in the middle instead of powdered, and they are not boiled so they don't have quite the same hardness on the outside. I found them in Bath this past May and bought several bags of them to take home. I allow myself one per day.

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MarbleousMel@reddit

Sherbet lemons can be found on Amazon, but I don’t like them as well as some brands I got from England.

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thisismyburnerac@reddit

I used to love Callard and Bowser English Toffee. Not sure if that’s still a thing.

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better-omens@reddit

I'm American with English family. I think fruit pastilles are the best English candy, so that's what I'd suggest. Smarties are also fun because they're so different from American smarties

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nasadowsk@reddit

Cadbury Flake. They're almost like contraband out here.

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MiniatureGiant18@reddit

Stop eating beans for breakfast you savages!

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pmswarrior88@reddit

Jammie Dodgers, Black Tea, Double Decker, and Curly Wurly by Cadbury. Or one of the many wild flavors of Crisps (Chips) by Pipers.

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Tommy_Wisseau_burner@reddit

Cadbury crunchies are fucking amazing. But you can get them on Amazon if you really want them. That said I’d get them that if they’ve never tried it

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tandabat@reddit

It’s probably not possible to ship, but clotted cream. And real crumpets.

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Adjective-Noun123456@reddit

Freddos can be pretty hard to find here outside of British specialty shops. The strawberry ones are the best.

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Boudleaux@reddit

I will have to say that my English friend brings me chocolate bars from Waitrose. Haha. It's really good. I send her Goo Goo Clusters in exchange (or send them back with her).

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Joyce_Hatto@reddit

Marmite.

JK

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edwardothegreatest@reddit

Malteser bars.

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cammiehanako@reddit

Hobnobs

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Gold-Pilot-8676@reddit

My son's best friend lives in England. When he visited there, he had a KitKat and said how much better they are than the US ones.

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North81Girl@reddit

We already got what we wanted from England

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Nancy-Drew-Who@reddit

Ketchup flavored Walker’s crisps! And prawn cocktail, cheese and onion, and roast chicken flavors too! I’m American but lived in the UK for a few years as a teen, and I still miss those British crisps flavors!

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infinitecosmic_power@reddit

Currant jam?

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spicyredacted@reddit

Europe has some pretty cool haribo candies we don't have here in the US..

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Green-Ad-6149@reddit

Send them tea and remind them they’ve paid zero taxes on reception of said tea.

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Granadafan@reddit

Bring some Welsh cakes from a local baker. They’re harder to find in England but we always bring some back from M&S

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reddock4490@reddit

Biscoff cookies

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TequilaMockingbird80@reddit

I’m a Brit living in the US, I always like to bring people the candy bars with same names as US ones but are different. So I bring Mars bars as they are similar to a Milky Way, I bring milky ways as they are similar to three musketeers, it’s fun to play the, wait this isn’t an X, game. Also Smarties And love hearts/fizzers/parma violets as here smarties are basically a version of those three things. I also bring Treacle toffee as that doesn’t exist here. My mum just sent my American husband some traditional sweets like sherbet lemons, pear drops, blackcurrant and licorice. Oh and anything black currant as black sweets here are always grape flavored.

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Jlstephens110@reddit

I was always a fan of Cadbury’s chocolate covered biscuits

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Diela1968@reddit

Brown sauce. I’ve made it from recipes I found online and I’d like to know if I got it right.

I always was curious what Wheatabix was like.

Maybe some cookies from the Queen’s (well, King’s now I suppose) shop that I saw on a travel food show.

Basically I like trying new foods lol.

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Vast_Warthog7745@reddit

Kendal Mint Cake. It's a type of chocolate bar.

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bijoux247@reddit

Whenever I'm coming back from the UK I tend to bring back: crisps- hula hoops, monster munch and skips. Biscuits: Custard Creams, bourbons, ginger nuts. Sweets: fruit pastilles, mints of all kinds especially humbugs and Murray mints. I either get the Bassetts pack or the M&S multi packs. There's not much like that. Everything blackcurrant or summer fruits. PickMix, Squishes like shrimp and bananas type stuff is always a laugh but basically if Rowntrees or Maynard/Bassetts makes it is fair game.

Also... this is totally me... the flavor of the dry roasted kp peanuts is just not replicated here easily and graze snacks have vanished from here so I always grab something.

Flavors we don't do well: paprika, beef, roast chicken and salt and vinegar.

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Spiritual_Being5845@reddit

Licorice is a love or hate candy. For people who love it Pontefract cakes (the real ones, not the ones made by the same company that makes gummi bears) would be popular.

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HoidsApprentice1121@reddit

Not for me, but for my favorite person (my mom). Wine gums!

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Juleswf@reddit

Flake

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antisara@reddit

Jammy dodgers, crunchies, those mint cakes from I don’t remember where, salt and vinegar monster munch. ( signed an American that loves British snacks.)

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zealot_ratio@reddit

wine gums!

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SusanLFlores@reddit

Local newspapers with sale ads. I sent one to an online friend in Australia (among other things), and the newspaper was one of the best things they enjoyed. A can of faggots for a laugh. There are other canned food items that would be funny because they are a bit offensive in our culture, but your friends would laugh I’m sure. A small British flag. Popular tea sold only in Britain. Something involving the royals, like paper napkins with images of people or crowns. I hope that helps!

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Daisyhead_Maizy@reddit

Cadbury Crunchies and Cadbury Drinking Chocolate.

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24HrSleeper@reddit

Tea and crumpets

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Similar_Cat_4906@reddit

Jelly Babies!

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kmontreux@reddit

Marriage or a working visa. Those documents would fit in the mail for sure.

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Braith117@reddit

Irn-Bru. Not sure if they'll actually like it, but we can't get it here.

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Opposite-Ad-2223@reddit

Prawn crisps. This is almost impossible to get over here and they are very good.

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kfergie1234@reddit

I’m in VA and love Lion and Aero bars.

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McCrankyface@reddit

If you want to confuse them send them prawn crisps

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Warmasterwinter@reddit

I personally would like a can of spotted dick. Just so I can throw it at someone and say “ Go eat a dick bro”

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BrianWall68@reddit

Malteasers

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Away-Cicada@reddit

Jaffa cakes, anything blackcurrant flavored, ummm.... those lil biscuits that have the jam in them? I can't remember the name but they kinda looked like thumbprint cookies and they slapped, and a small jar or two of pimms. That was in my snack box when I did a swap with someone from Kent. She also threw in some shepherds pie seasoning mix and that was cool.

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BaffledBubbles@reddit

Some of that healthcare would be nice

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foxsable@reddit

Some of those awesome coins with Beatrix Potter characters.

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Bing-Bong2028@reddit

Nothing really. The Uk sucks

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hearthepindrop@reddit

I’ve heard that Americans that come over love Aero and I don’t think they can get them there.

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tn00bz@reddit

Your skittles have a better purple flavor than us. Ours are grape. I hate artificial grape.

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Prestigious_View_401@reddit

Bring a can of beans instead. The traitors to the queen don’t deserve sweets.

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Big_Metal2470@reddit

Kinder Eggs! They're illegal to import, so hide them under something that no American will view as suspicious, like a handgun

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Loisgrand6@reddit

😂

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

We have kinder eggs here. I thought Brits don't have guns...?

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mess-maker@reddit

We don’t have kinder surprise eggs in the US, those are hollow egg shaped chocolate that has a toy in the middle. They have an alternate product for the US market that’s shaped like an egg but there’s chocolate in one half and a toy in the other.

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Thank you!

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

Kinder Eggs are not legal to sell in the US. We get "Kinder Joy" here which is egg shaped and has a toy/prize but it's a different item. I've found Kinder Eggs being sold under the counter and it was interesting to compare.

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Thanks!

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Prairie_Crab@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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Loisgrand6@reddit

Clotted cream and Polo mints

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LadybugGirltheFirst@reddit

Free healthcare.

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Rayje589@reddit

An accent. An aero bar (my fav. Hard to find in the states). Lion bar (brothers favorite).

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Imaginary_Ganache_29@reddit

More Top Gear/Grand Tour.

And maybe Scrapheap Challenge.

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Super_Selection1522@reddit

Pretty sure we don't want tea..

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Parking_Champion_740@reddit

I’d like national health care from the UK. oh wait never mind

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Pippinsmom19@reddit

I asked my husband to bring me back an umbrella when he traveled to England for work. It was great, lasted for years.

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Little_Neddie@reddit

Still have Lion bars?

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gyabou@reddit

Americans here, and my wife’s favorite snack from the UK are Penguin biscuits, and they are a little hard to find in import shops around here.

I like jelly babies!

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klimekam@reddit

Something LOCAL from your town or neighborhood. We can fairly easily get most major UK brands of sweets here, especially in Virginia.

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Proditude@reddit

Even ordinary things taste better from outside the US. I never eat out here any more unless it’s a high end restaurant because quality has deteriorated so much.

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comma_nder@reddit

Are Jacob’s club bars considered English or are they just available in England? I remember those rocking, way better than the American equivalent Kit Kat

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rimshot101@reddit

Let's see... British sweets... Ummm.... a jar of treacle?

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

Your Healthcare System. But since that’s not going to happen, Jammie Dodgers, Cadbury chocolate and Tea Cakes would do nicely. (My best friend was born in England and moved to the states when she got married and her mom still sends her all of her favorite treats on her birthday and at Christmas).

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TeacupCollector2011@reddit

I can get Jammie Dodgers at my World Market. For such a simple biscuit, I could eat the entire package in one sitting (but I don't because they're expensive now).

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

Admittedly, Jammie Dodgers are available at my local chain, but they’re still a tasty treat, especially when paired with a London Fog Latte.

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Lemmingmaster64@reddit

I have always wanted to try Wensleydale cheese from England. Ever since I watched Wallace and Gromit as a kid I've wanted that cheese.

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hamknuckle@reddit

Really anything you think appropriate. We hosted a Norwegian exchange student and he brought us brunost. I know it’s just cheese, but it was very thoughtful and much appreciated (although it started a brunost addiction).

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andy-3290@reddit

According to my British friends...

You can get almost everything here of interest, but I am assured the fish and chips will very likely not be as good in the states.

I've never seen Vegemite available in the states. Understand it's a love. Hate thing. I knew one little girl who loved it. Her parents not so much.

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Ghost_Without@reddit

I suppose it would depend on the fish, such as Cod and Haddock (also Lemon Sole in parts of Scotland), used and if something silly was added, like spice or a side of tartare sauce instead of just a lemon wedge, salt, and malt vinegar. It seems to be a Southern England thing; they sometimes have a side of curry sauce (maybe hard to get in the US due to a lack of chip shops).

Also, Vegemite is Australian and has a slightly different consistency from British Marmite.

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5ygnal@reddit

Jelly Babies?

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Tall_Candidate_686@reddit

I would ask for a bottle of gin or malt vinegar from an obscure brand.

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Sea_Macaron_7962@reddit

Toffee?

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hoaryvervain@reddit

Wine gums, fruit pastilles, and any of the chocolate bars that aren’t sold in the US (Yorkie, Flake, Double Decker, Turkish delight). Also smarties and malteasers.

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void_method@reddit

Something with a fucked up British name, like "St. Withershins Digestive Biscuits".

Ooh. Give them a Mars Bar. We... don't have those here. Haven't seen one in ages.

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Guitar-Gangster@reddit

Not candy, but I'd recommend Marmite. It is difficult to find in the US, most Americans have never tried it, and it has a very unique flavor. There's a chance your friends won't like it, but hey, it's something genuinely unique they might have never tried otherwise. It's the most "British" thing I can think of.

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FenPhen@reddit

Be prepared to take it back home with you!

I bought a small jar of Vegemite from Australia and it was a struggle to find ways to kill it.

Out of curiosity, how do folks describe the difference in taste between Vegemite, Marmite, and Bovril?

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TacosNGuns@reddit

I liked vegemite when I tried it (Texan)

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FenPhen@reddit

I didn't hate it. I just didn't enjoy it on toast/crackers.

I think we ended up using most of it for cooking, like soy sauce or fish sauce.

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ltsmash1200@reddit

Tip—even if you don’t like marmite on its own (I do not), it does work really well to amp up the flavor of gravy, I add a spoonful whenever I make it. Similar to using coffee to make chocolate taste more chocolaty.

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Consistent_Damage885@reddit

British chocolate is always a hit. I like those Chocolate Oranges you smack on the table.

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ContributionDapper84@reddit

Nobbles, Galaxy Bars

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barksatthemoon@reddit

Cadbury flake!

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Dru65535@reddit

Cadbury chocolate. They recently changed the formula sold in the US and it isn't the same.

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

The Cadbury sold in the US is made by Hershey and has always been subpar. However, Cadbury in the UK is owned by Mondelēz which has changed it for the worse over there.

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Dru65535@reddit

Which one is less bad?

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Timely-Field1503@reddit

A case or ten of Irn Bru.

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DrProfessorSatan@reddit

Any Dr Who fan wants Jelly Babies.

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Bug_Calm@reddit

Pub coasters. Licorice, if they like it.

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Costaricaphoto@reddit

Get them pickle and cheese for a ploughman’s lunch.

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provocative_bear@reddit

Bring us some figgy pudding. We heard the song and want to know what it’s all about.

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TheOkaySolution@reddit

If they are bath people (as in they enjoy a good soak l in the tub), I'd say bubble bath. The US has virtually no quality budget bubble baths. You basically pay $25 for 12 oz. or just deal with flat bubbles.

When I go to the international grocer, I stock up on Radox or Badedas. Even with import tax, it's a fraction of what I'd normally have to pay for bubbles that last.

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aucool786@reddit

Hmmm... If they like chocolate, Cadbury chocolates aren't really common here. Maybe some sort of locally made thing? This isn't exactly "made" but I love gifting local Pennsylvanian honey when I travel.

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MonsieurRuffles@reddit

You can buy US-made Cadbury in most supermarkets by me. However, it’s made by Hershey and it’s not good. UK Cadbury is owned by Mondelēz which changed the recipe a few years ago to a lot of complaints.

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Myfourcats1@reddit

Chocolate.

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Independent-Cat-4169@reddit

More films! Any kind, as long as the films has some of that fabled dry wit and humor the UK is known for.

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DebutsPal@reddit

The fancy tea in the satchets!

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FrankNumber37@reddit

They sell that at the grocery here.

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DebutsPal@reddit

at some grocery stores, none of the ones near me carry the good brands with the satchets. also I''ve heard it's like a third the price or something in the UK

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FrankNumber37@reddit

That's a shame. Meijer (sort of a Walmart equivalent in the great lakes area) sells a huge variety of English teas for 12¢ per sachet.

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DebutsPal@reddit

I wonder if they ship....

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twxf@reddit

Bring your favorite plain chocolate bar and marshmallows from the UK, and make s'mores with your friends!

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Ok_Gap938@reddit

Crunchie bars!! Though they can be gotten here.

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ACam574@reddit

Asylum

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CodenameJD@reddit

As a Brit living in the US, the number one thing I miss is prawn cocktail crisps, so I recommend those. Pringles travel better than most crisps.

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Ok_Ordinary6694@reddit

A sense of decency or shame. Ability to form an orderly line?

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Shhheeeesshh@reddit

You mean a queue?

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FavoriteFoodCarrots@reddit

As a native Virginian who lived in the UK for a while, chocolate digestives. I realize it’s not really a sweet, but let’s be realistic.

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Top-Comfortable-4789@reddit

Maybe some teas from there?

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Shhheeeesshh@reddit

Jam tarts! I had no idea what I was missing out till my buddies gave me one.

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vu_sua@reddit

Beans

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pinniped90@reddit

Well, not English but whenever I transit Heathrow I hit up World of Whiskies for a bottle of Scotch.

I guess if it needs to be specifically English, I'd get a nice big box of different teas.

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thusnewmexico@reddit

English toffee, perhaps. (From an English toffee lover!)

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Odd-Artist-2595@reddit

When my husband died an internet friend sent me a care package from England. Among my favorites were mini Battenberg cakes (sooo unbelievably sweet, but just right in the mini format, and expensive as hell if I try to buy them in the US), Bird’s custard powder (and a few cans of tinned custard), Maldon sea salt flakes, shortbreads, and a pork pie.

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Competitive_Toe2544@reddit

I'm kind of a big Doctor Who fan, I've always wanted to try Jelly Babies.

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Dramatic_Site_9428@reddit

Second this. I haven’t found any American gummie-like thing that even comes close. Lucky to have a UK specialty shop nearby that carries them.

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

There's a new kind of fruit jelly candy at Trader Joe's that I think has a similar texture but a different flavor selection and they're just disc-shaped.

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LionLucy@reddit

I know an American catholic priest who now works in Scotland and loves jelly babies, so I bet you’d like them!

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TangerineTangerine_@reddit

"real" tea

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TheNorthC@reddit

It needs to be real tea because proper tea is theft.

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Heavy_Gap_5047@reddit

A thank you and apology.

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TheNorthC@reddit

As a Brit, I accept your apology.

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NTropyS@reddit

Ambrosia canned custard. That stuff is addictive!

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LawnJerk@reddit

You could bring some Pimms.

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BigBlueMountainStar@reddit

Does your friend like Hershey’s?
If so, then there’s possibly no point getting anything chocolate related as out chocolate doesn’t taste like vomit.

Go for the sweets (candy) instead, like Percy Pigs, Starburst, Wine Gums or Jelly Tots.

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shammy_dammy@reddit

Me personally? McVities milk chocolate digestives.

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NecessaryTrainer9558@reddit

Mushy peas

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Delicious-Ad5856@reddit

Everyone else is mentioning candy and snacks. I would love something like a beautiful blanket, towel, gloves, hat, something like that made in England and only sold in England.

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MetalicP@reddit

chocolate hobnobs

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Krusty_Krab_Pussy@reddit

I feel like those are relatively common at least in my state, you can get them at Walmart

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OmicronVestal@reddit

My husband is a big fan of Yorkie Bars.

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Physical_Orchid3616@reddit

British sweets are pretty dire compared to American sweets. If I were you, I would just go to Harrod's, and get them tins of biscuits. They'll like the tin. The biscuits will be okay. I honestly cannot think of ONE British sweet that is really good or that is better than what you can get in America.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Seems like you're in a minority on this one.

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Serendipity500@reddit

Tom Hiddleston

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whipla5her@reddit

Flakebars!

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PeorgieT75@reddit

I always ask for some Cadbury Twirl and Hob Nobs.

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DemonaDrache@reddit

A can of spotted dick.

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Flettie@reddit

Integrity, style, sophistication

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SadFaithlessness8237@reddit

I can’t remember the name, but there were some delicious chocolate biscuits in a tin I had on my first and only trip (so far) to England years ago.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Chocolate digestives?

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SadFaithlessness8237@reddit

I’m not sure, they were like a thin round chocolate wafer cookie (with a scalloped edge, I think)

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

Wine gums, Jelly Babies, those prepackaged Mr Kipling baked goods (I'm a fiend for those Battenberg cakes), anything blackcurrant (uncommon here).

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teachthisdognewtrick@reddit

Yorkie Bars. So much better than the chocolate flavored oil based substitutes in US bars.

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garden__gate@reddit

My American friend who spent part of her childhood in England (military) always talks about how much better Cadbury chocolate is there. She really misses the flake bars.

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TheNorthC@reddit

Not an American, but I would suggest some crumpets. Toasted with butter is a unique flavour and totally delicious.

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mazrael@reddit

For sweet things, Mr Kipling’s goods are good. As are Tunnock’s tea cakes. Savory, try Prawn Cocktail crisps.

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Yeegis@reddit

Do the unthinkable and smuggle kinder surprise eggs into our borders

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Legitimate-March9792@reddit

That variety tin of Cadbury miniature chocolates.

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bleedorange0037@reddit

Bring them a bag of M&M’s. Their minds will be blown by how much better yours are than the American ones.

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Our dyes and preservatives are so nasty.

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kaleb2959@reddit

Jelly babies are a thing we don't have, and which we find simultaneously horrifying and morbidly fascinating.

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Dramatic_Site_9428@reddit

It’s true! The Evil One does eat babies! 😆

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realsalmineo@reddit

I drove to Vancouver for a chimney pot, and found jelly babies at a local store. They were like nothing else in the States, sort of like a waxy Jujyfruit. I liked them. My wife didn’t.

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SaltandLillacs@reddit

Monster munch

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justlkin@reddit

I think you can get them in a few specifically shops here, but those chocolate oranges are the bomb!

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pyramidalembargo@reddit

For you to take us back. ;)

I'm kidding, but I'm not.

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backlikeclap@reddit

As an American who lived in England the things I miss the most are cheese, jam (jelly? Idk), bread, and kebab trucks. Fortunately the first two items on that list travel well!

If your friends nerd out about a particular category of media, buying a copy of the British version makes a great gift - the British cover versions of the Pratchett novels for example.

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wytfel@reddit

If they're Dr. Who fans send them some jammy dodgers

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i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn@reddit

Personally, I would love English versions of stuff you can get here, but without the European-banned ingredients. Y'all have banned lots of American dyes and preservatives due to their toxicity and I would love a blind taste test! US M&Ms have food coloring that is a bit prettier, but is too toxic for European standards. I would love to see if I could taste the difference. I'm betting I could guess because they would be better, but who knows? Perhaps also Doritos... someone said that they are a million times better tasting in South America. They said the same thing about canned/tinned tuna. I wonder if it is the same in the UK because certain preservatives we use are illegal there.

Spotted dick will always get a laugh.

Not from England, but probably something you can get there more easily than in the USA: those Palestinian keffiyeh scarves.

Union Jacks are pretty popular here because of their popularity with the 70s punk scene.

Old license plates are cute for people who enjoy kitsch.

Do you have any traditional drinking vessels that are popular there?

Soccer stuff: flags, scarves, t-shirts, etc. The team might not even matter, depending on who it's for. I have a ton of scarves and I would love one of those, too. Same for mittens and socks. People love socks that can show some personality when they have to wear boring/traditional suits or uniforms.

English toffee, perhaps? I never see it except for the occasional Skor or Heath candy bars. I am talking about the GOOD stuff, though. With nuts, too!

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WiseQuarter3250@reddit

Cadbury, we basically have caramello & the eggs, but not the other varieties. So a variety 'treat size' bag of Cadbury would be good to give Americans a sampling.

Turkish delight, if we have ever heard of it is because of Chronicles of Narnia, but it's very rare any of us have tried it.

assorted kilted fudge company products.

jelly babies if they're fans of classic Dr. Who.

Sherbet lemons

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Carollicarunner@reddit

Those large oversized softer Giant Skittles. Anybody in the US that likes candy will be familiar with Skittles but those are a novelty we don't get here. Not yet, anyway.

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Crankenberry@reddit

Recolonization. Please.

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SlowerThanTurtleInPB@reddit

I always ask my friends in London to send me Flake bars. I love those things.

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Curious-Gain-7148@reddit

I’m reasonably envious that the Jo Malone store on Regent St carries exclusive scents.

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After-Willingness271@reddit

Sun cream, your sunblock/sun cream is vastly superior

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ShipComprehensive543@reddit

I have them bring me flake bars.

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shelwood46@reddit

I can get a lot in my grocery's international section (Cadbury, wine gummies, tea, biscuits, cordials) but they never have your crisps, I assume because they are hard to ship. So we never get your cheese & onion or your shrimp whatever, you might bring a few small bags of those. Also you can get UK candy here but it often pricey or melted (I just bought a bag of Aeros and they were all melted and not very Aero0..

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FishermanUsed2842@reddit

Your chocolate tastes better than ours if it's still the same. It's been about 20 years since I was in England but, I remember the Cadbury in Europe tasting significantly better than in the US.

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Icy-Whale-2253@reddit

I’ll take some earl grey

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violet992@reddit

Quality Street!

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DefNotReaves@reddit

As an American who’s been to England a couple dozen times, I miss Lucozade and Wine gums… and a kebab, but you can’t really ship that.

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PartyClient3447@reddit

a few tea bags would be a nice gift.

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null_squared@reddit

Proper malt vinegar.

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AdAltruistic8526@reddit

Prawn cocktail crisps, Fortnums Royal Blend tea

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AutumnB2022@reddit

Jaffa cakes, wine gums, Cadbury chocolate, Battenburg cakes, prawn cocktail crisps, crunchy, Maltesers, M&S candy (pigs, foam bananas)

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Cesia_Barry@reddit

We usually brought Jaffa Cakes & other biscuits & snack foods when we came home to the states for a visit.

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SadLocal8314@reddit

Wine gums and Jaffa cakes.

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realsalmineo@reddit

Bovril. It can’t be found here.

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Main_Understanding14@reddit

Smarties candies (your kind, the chocolate in the candy shell, like far-superior m&ms. Not our kind, the sweet-tart pastel discs).
Also good tea

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

Curly-Whirlys, Aero bars, Fry’s Turkish, real Cadbury Fruit & Nuts bars, real Jaffa Cakes, Flapjacks

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1st_JP_Finn@reddit

If you’re sending in mail/parcel service, anything chocolate won’t survive the US summer temperatures. Ship during October-March and it will be with better success.

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Aardvark-Decent@reddit

Some high-brow loose leaf tea.

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FrauAmarylis@reddit

Carmelized onion chutney. Scone mix.Honeycomb from M&S. Wine gums. those igloo-looking Tea cakes.

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Appalachian_Aioli@reddit

Are they Warhammer fans?

Minis are much cheaper in England than the US

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WarderWannabe@reddit

Spotted Dick

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filburt99@reddit

Walkers Prawn Cocktail chips

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earlyre98@reddit

Oh! Um... What's it called... Inbru! Very hard to come by in most of the US.. you'll run into it here and there, but not very common.

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ssgtdunno@reddit

Love me so Kinder Happy Hippos

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earlyre98@reddit

I want a couple things that aren't legal in the US

A REAL kinder egg, both the crap knock off we get here... ( YOU CAN'T PUT THE TOY IN THE CANDY!!! THATS A CHOKING HAZARD!!!!)

And some real Bovril. All you can get in the US is a knock off called Bovrite, but from what I hear it's just not the same... (Illegal because of something to do with mad cow disease)

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DrGerbal@reddit

Tea

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Rare_Tear_1125@reddit

The statue of Lemmy Kilmister in Stoke-on-trent

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Weekly_March@reddit

Buckfast!

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chivopi@reddit

I really liked trying discos… we have better chips though.

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Dependent-Aside-9750@reddit

Authentic tea, jammy dodgers, maybe some other cookies we don't have here. Maybe some Highgrove jam.

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Neb-Nose@reddit

Perhaps asylum?

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TheMuffler42069@reddit

A tally stick

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RonMcKelvey@reddit

wine gums, jelly babies, and what's the berry.... currants, blackcurrants - we don't really have those in the US because of some weird law from forever ago, I remember my wife ate some sort of chocolate blackcurrant thing in the UK and became obsessed.

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EmergencyRace7158@reddit

Marmite. Its the best spread ever made.

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SuLiaodai@reddit

Cadbury Easter Creme Eggs used to be VERY hard to find in the US. If it's still hard to get them, I'd say that's a good thing to bring.

What's that candy bar would say something like, "It's just for men!"or "It's not for girls!" on the packaging? That was so weird and funny to me. If they still make those, I might bring a couple.

Cadbury chocolate in general is much better than what we get in the US, much milkier.

I used to love chocolate-covered Hob-Nobs too.

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SuperPomegranate7933@reddit

Good chocolate.

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unsurewhatiteration@reddit

This is just me, but Charbonnel et Walker caramel truffles are my go-to ask from British colleagues whenever I'm going to end up in the same places as them for work. I have never found anything even remotely similar in quality in the US.

I tend to ask for bigger containers and pay them back since I want to stock up when I can but something like this was how I was first introduced to them.

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Legitimate-Squash-44@reddit

Dark chocolate Hobnobs

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hewhoisneverobeyed@reddit

Timothy Taylor’s Landlord.

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Strong_Landscape_333@reddit

Pick something unique

I can't think of anything that you can't buy in America or similar

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Ravenclaw79@reddit

Cadbury Whole Nut bars 🤤

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Wise-Foundation4051@reddit

Those Crunchy bars or whatever they’re called? I think it’s basically what we’d call “honeycomb” candy dipped in chocolate. Those things are delicious.

Also, I know it’s not English exactly, but real kinder eggs.

Also anything current flavored. We don’t have those here, something to do with the cranberry industry, I think? I dunno.

Anyway, that’s what I’d ask for personally.

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