I have family coming over from England in a few weeks. Of course they have asked , so what do u want us to bring u from here?

Here's what I have come up with so far....weetabix, white musk from the body shop, sarsons vinegar, a bag of fish and chips, galaxy chocolate, crunchies, some pics of the good ole english countryside and christmas crackers!! I know some of them are unrealistic for them to bring....but they asked what i wanted so.......!!

So what would u have people bring over for u???

Well, the US has a Body Shop so, unless they don't carry that particular fragrance, I wouldn't worry about that.

Me? Marmite and Cadbury's Flakes. Not together, obviously!

Branston Pickle. My cheese and crackers are not the same without it! And I also love those little battenburg cakes. And Murray Mints.

I would like to know how I can order from Tesco some vegetable chips and some awesome salsa dip. I can't figure out how to order and also if I can find it here in the USA. The dip was a Tesco brand called "finest".

Chocolate.

And once they've filled their extra case with that, I'd ask for more chocolate in the carry on.

A little chocolate stuffed in shirt and pants pockets is okay with me too.

I alays get people to bring me Bisto gravy granuals (chicken and beef), Kenco coffee, Scottish blend Tea Bags, Hob Nobs, Gallaxy Chocolate and a whole box of Sports Mixture Gums....

I have found I can buy Ambrosia Custard, Heinz Baked Beans and a few other goodies from my local supermarket... but they cost mega $$$.


Kez

But it'll be all melty!



Oh, I'll add battenburg to my list too. LOVE marzipan. Mmmnnnnnn.

Annie would say that we can never have enough Galaxy chocolate in the house.

You may want to see if there is a World Market near you. They have a great selection of 'international' foods and we find quite bit there. We have seen weetabix plenty of places.

I am pretty sure you can find the Veggie Chips at The World Market...the dip, probably not!! *smile*



Chris says he wants tiger bread...Morrisons baked beans...I want red liecester! Yummo.
his pants. He needs pants (we decided that last night) But he likes Marks and Sparks ones...

lots of things! mmmmmm cheese

Tell em to bring everything but the kitchen sink!

I always pack a suitcase full of food when I come back to the USA from the UK, here r but a few things,,,,,,,

WARBURTONS CRUMPETS
POTATO CAKES
OVEN BOTTOMS - BAPS WHATEVER YOU LIKE TO CALL EM
GALAXY RIPPLES
WALNUT WHIPS
MACLEANS TOOTHPASTE IN A PUMP
PARACETAMOL
SAVLON
VIMPTO SUGAR FREE- IT NOW COMES IN A PLASTIC BOTTLE
MALTESTERS
LANCASHIRE DISH CLOTHS
SMITHS SALT AND SHAKE CRISPS
WALKERS CRISPS
GINGER NUTS
COUGH CANDY TWIST
YORKSHIRE PUDDING MIX
DUMPLING MIX
AT CHRISMAS TIME - MINCEMEAT FOR MINCE PIES
CHRISTMAS CRACKERS
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
CUSTARD MIX
BRANDY CUSTARD MIX
TRIFLE SPONGES
HARTLEYS JELLY
TEA BAGS

And anything else I can cram in!

Also I don't know if any of you are lucky enough to live near them but there are a few tescos open over here, under another name,,,,,don't know what its like but there is no place on earth than the real tescos! oh and Marks & Spencer too!


http://www.freshandeasy.com/home.aspx

I don't know what it is over here but I hate the smell of the supermarkets, all of them smell horrid, puts me off spending much time in the place never mind the food you CAN'T buy in them,,,,,why is it you go to a resturant and the bread is decent and when you buy bread in the suprmarket/deli/bakery its terrible??????

Ditto on the Marks pants! I'm flying out on Saturday for 6 days in the UK and a trip to M&S for pants and their scoopneck T-shirts is on the books. Seriously, I have never owned a better or more flattering T-shirt than their scoopneck one...and it only costs five quid!

Oh, and I will be bringing back some Bart Thai Green Curry paste. I went to Stop & Shop, assuming I could just pick some up because hey! it's in every bleedin' Tesco and Sainsbury's but I went home empty handed. I could buy Ambrosia custard and Heinz baked beans there but no curry paste. Oh the humanity!

And the problem with that is...?

My locel grocery store carries Branston! $6.50 but hey, it's worth it.



http://www.worldmarket.com/home.jsp

If you have a Cost Plus near you, they carry lots of Brit stuff, including tea & HobNobs & choccie.

I asked my mum to bring over some of the Bart red & green curry sauces (the ones that come in a plastic 'bag')... I was soooo looking forward to eating that stuff again. Apparently Sainsbury's had run out, so she brought me their own-brand stuff, one red and one green, in their plastic bags... I made the green one the other day, it was utterly, utterly crap. Hideous watery stuff that bore no resemblance to green curry at all.

And yeah, I know you can make thai curry easily enough, but I wanted my bag of Barts! I also asked for Loyd Grossman's tomato & chili pasta sauce, but she forgot that - tsk!

All this talk of food reminds me - I wish Dr_LHA was still here, I remember him posting something about Bovril not being available over here because of the BSE thing, but... I wanted to tell him, I saw some Bovril in a local place the other day. Vile stuff! (Oh, I also saw South African marmite... who knew they had marmite in South Africa? It has an orange label, y'know...).

you can probably see DR_lha on one of the other sites.

Tesco here is know as Fresh and Easy, its starting in So California. They are not going to have a lot of 'British' foods.

You know, I could also go for a warm and fresh sticky toffee pudding with custard.

And, Dev, I would pay $6.50 for Branston if they sold it in my supermarket! Luckily, I am seeing the man next week and he's bringing me a few jars AND some battenburg cakes!! So much to be excited for - all my favorite British things!

I was checking the site, but they don't open til November. Damnit.



I could totally send you some - they also have that weird mint sauce & that weird mustard stuff too (Chow Chow maybe?). Let me know next time!

I need a UK person to send me M&S Cheese Crispies. Hubby's sis is useless for getting them. She PROMISED me twice to get them since Xmas last year, nada. And his old flatmate was just over & he couldn't find them for me. There are like 1.99 & in a square box, cheese wafer type things. I would pay someone gladly to ship me 10 boxes. Anyone in the UK help a girl out???

Thanks for the offer Dev!

Well, I could go to Canada and get some Branston. I found some in a little British shop in Niagara-on-the-Lake. But its an hour drive, a $3.50 toll and $6.95 a jar. Their prices are astonishing! $1.89 for a Crunchie! But on the odd occasions where I do make it there, I fork over the cash somewhat willingly!

Luckily I have Taste of Britain 6 miles away, so we are always stocked with Paxo, Branston pickle, Piccalili,
and loads of Galaxy, Cadburys etc. Last time I went they had 10c bags of mini Cadburys buttons on the counter..yum
In 2 weeks my pop is visiting and Ive requested Weetabix ($5.00 for 12 in local shop!!) and I need to find out if he can bring Smoked Mackerel on the plane...
does anybody know whether that will be allowed through?
It will be a bit warm, but oh how I miss it!!!!

The only smoked fish Ive found here is Smoked Catfish....doesnt really appeal..

x

You're certainly not allowed to bring any meats with you, I'm sure that fish is included in that aswell.

I think you might be able to - check here:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/kbyg/

Well, if you can bring fish I don't want to be the one sitting next to the person who does. Or have my luggage placed on top of it...

Okay, found this, makes it a bit clearer:



Linky

Not a Mackerel fan myself, but I do like smoked fish! You should be able to find smoked fish in Atlanta somewhere.
I really like smoked trout or smoked salmon.
But other fishes are good too. Smoked Rock fish.. yummy
Great with crackers and a little cream cheese!

Try a good fish market. Perhaps a farmers market......

You guys are making me hungry...I have ordered galaxy, branston and paxo on www.jollygrub.com before...all was very good but also not cheap!!!!
They really should not have asked me what i wanted them to bring because now I cannt stop thinking of all the different things they could bring....walnut whips....paxo....proper marmalade......oh I'm drooling

hey there, gimme the details and i will happily send you over some.

I'm hoping to be in L.A. when all this visa business is out of the way, and it'd be nice for there to be someone there who owes me a favour!

PM me with the exact biscuits + address, i'm sure i can get them over to you.

Gary's sister just brought over some goodies for us last month

Bisto
Jaffa Cakes
8 bars of Cadbury Chocolate
2 bars of Galaxy Chocolate
Soda Farls
Penguins
Syndol
Tesco Yorkshire Pudding mixes
Boots Curl Creme
Digestives

My parents are coming back from visiting my sister in Yorkshire tomorrow. They're bringing me back:

• Cadbury's
• Yorkshire Gold tea
• Harrod's ginger biscuits
• Weetabix golden minis

mmmmmmmm

Mmmmm, proper ginger biscuits... I've never had Harrod's ones (well, I have, but they came from various Christmas hampers at least 15 years ago - they might be a bit different now!), but good, posh ginger biscuits ('specially ones with thick dark chocolate all over them) might possibly be my favouritest things EVER.

I was at my local Shaws tonight and they have expanded their range of brit foods. Weetabix, Grossman's sauces and soups, loads of different marmalades and jams, chunky kit kats, wine gums, loads of biscuits, and all the usual range they have of chocolate, pickles and stuff. It was quite impressive! Considering I am one of only two brits in a town of 8,000 I guess someone must be buying that stuff.

What did I buy? Nowt. After nearly 4 years of living here I guess I've weaned myself off that stuff and realized it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Not that I buy any other muck in place of it either though. If I did want to eat crap, it would be the Brit stuff all the way.

Wes informed me before we married there are only two foods from the UK he can't live without - HP Sauce and Branston Pickle.

HP Sauce I can understand. Branston Pickle looks and smells like brown snot. We actually love to wave the jar under the nose of unsuspecting teenagers for their reaction.

I'm fond of Digestives and WagonWheels.

Oh.........we must have tea. Numbarrie or Bewley's. Box-car loads in fact. And that's MY requirement. American tea is floor sweepings.

Ya know RJ, I was very dubious about the merits of Branston Pickle, and then I discovered the small chunk variety. Oh sheer heaven with my cheese and crackers. Next week I will have a new supply!! Oh joy!!

ooh, thanks for the fishy-related links...
Theres a farmers market on Buford Highway, nearby that sells every fish known to man except me smoked mackerel.

Ive also added Schwartz Spicy Season-all to the list, makes all my recipes taste good
x
l

oohh I love that farmers market!!

I am dying to go again soon!

Found this on the CBP.gov website...


'Fish, if it is for your personal use, is generally admissible.'


oo...er..missus, howzabout a conger?
sorry, unemployment is getting to me..
x

JUDE LAW!!!!!!!

I am able to get quite a bit of Brit stuff at my local Meijer supermarket, including weetabix, hobnobs, branston, HP, Marmite and gravy granules. Although like someone else said, I have weaned myself off them by now!

What I did ask for the last time someone was coming over was Ibuprofen gel (Ibuleve etc - it is great if you have a stiff neck); Germolene and Oxo cubes. Next time I want a tiny bottle of TCP! Gosh, I sound like a hypochondriac!

A big bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk always goes down well too!

My Dad always asks me to bring with me:

McVities dark choc digestive biscuits
Fox's cream biscuits
Mars Bars
Liquorice Allsorts
Daddies sauce
Bovril
Paxo
Suet
Golden Syrup (Which I am ALWAYS terrified is going to explode in my case )
Kingsmill bread
Jamaica Ginger Cake
Crumpets
Robinsons orange squash
Rose's Lime Marmalade

Yes. My case is always extremely heavy

Now I also have to add Cadbury's caramel for Chris and his daughter Evie....

I think I will ask family members for most of the above when I eventually move over!!! Along with boosts and drifters and marzipan..... Oooooooh and jelly babies.....

I bought Cadburys flake, cadburys digestives last week and this week they even had jaffa cakes in there, expensive but worth it somtimes!!!

William would want family to bring over some brown sauce (personally I can't handle it! hehe). He says shame we can't have haggis brought to the US. Doubt we'll be able to find a butcher who sells it in the small country town we're moving to! hehe

Ahh you never know! I live in a tiny town and we can get haggis...


Not that I eat it! But we can get it!


TOSH: I am sure you can find Golden Syrup and Roses Marmalade stateside.
If not at a regular grocery(which we have here), but The World Market has them.
Pretty sure they have Jelly Babies there too...
not seen the Dark Choco biscuts but they may get them.

They have the dark chocolate McVitie's digestives in the World Market near my house. (Yay. They're my favourite.) Weetabix is everywhere but you can't get the little honey nut mini ones yet. Haven't seen Roses marmalade but thank goodness I can get the lime cordial.