NEWSFLASH FOR THE BRITS...

[britty 1]

I was in Rite Aid this afternoon and they are stocking Cadbury's Creme Eggs !!! Not American ones, British imported ones (says it on the box) and they are 33cents each !!!! woohoo. I bought a couple and have just had one. Definitely the real deal. They are with all the Easter themed things.

[PlatyPius 5]

We have no Rite Aid.

CVS sells the real ones too, though.

[britty 1]

We have no Rite Aid.

CVS sells the real ones too, though.

I did not know this. I have a CVS a few mins walk away

[NickyMcMillan 0]

Good to hear! Will keep that in mind for next year.

I was so pissed when I bought some cadburys milk chocolate from wallgreens to discover, it was just hersheys chocolate with a cadburys wrapper.

[PlatyPius 5]

Good to hear! Will keep that in mind for next year.

I was so pissed when I bought some cadburys milk chocolate from wallgreens to discover, it was just hersheys chocolate with a cadburys wrapper.

Any Cadbury's you buy around here is going to be made by Hershey, with the possible exception of Cadbury Eggs. That's all that we've found so far, at least. When I want to get Mags some real Cadbury's, I order it from the English Tea Store ( http://www.englishteastore.com/ ) I always get myself some Cheese & Onion crisps, too. lol

[Britchick 0]

Thank u thank u thank u....I soooooooo need some "proper" chocccy

[NickyMcMillan 0]

Any Cadbury's you buy around here is going to be made by Hershey, with the possible exception of Cadbury Eggs. That's all that we've found so far, at least. When I want to get Mags some real Cadbury's, I order it from the English Tea Store ( http://www.englishteastore.com/ ) I always get myself some Cheese & Onion crisps, too. lol

Ohh that is a great link! They have monster munch pickled onion!!

[j4k 0]

you all love your cadbury's creme eggs! i've always hated them! i do like the mini eggs...my store sells them but i'm guessing they are probably not the imported kind...altho maybe they are since kevin said he can't notice a difference....we had the cadbury christmas candy too...like red white and green m&m's...anyhow...cvs and rite aid are owned by the same company i believe, thus the reason being able to find them in both places...maybe they only import them at the holidays and do the hershey's stuff the rest of the year?

[paulinespens 3]

I went into walgreens a few weeks ago. The box of all the types of cream eggs said made in England.

[ginger1981 0]

I never understood the creme eggs myself. Messy and they hurt my teeth.

Though to be honest I've never been a Hershey's fan myself. I'll eat it if it is there, but it has a strange after taste. I prefer to go for the good stuff...Ghiridelli all the way!

[rene1 0]

If you can find a WORLD MARKET store they have all kinds of great British Food, pengiuns, garabaldi's, heinz custard, heinz beans, ambrosia creamed rice, all kinds of cadbury's sweets, jam, vimto bars, digestive biscuits, and my personal fav., chocolate digestives [dunked in a hot cuppa tea.] i'm getting homesick now

[britty 1]

If you can find a WORLD MARKET store they have all kinds of great British Food, pengiuns, garabaldi's, heinz custard, heinz beans, ambrosia creamed rice, all kinds of cadbury's sweets, jam, vimto bars, digestive biscuits, and my personal fav., chocolate digestives [dunked in a hot cuppa tea.] i'm getting homesick now

World Market also sold chocolate selection boxes over christmas and I bought one for every US based Brit I know. Finding the Creme Eggs at Rite Aid was similar to the day I found Jacobs Cream Crackers at Harris Teeter. I heard angels sing and strobes of light descended upon me from the ceiling.

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

From what I read about other people's problems hunting down British foodstuffs, I feel like I must be living in some sort of Brit-food paradise. Our local Stop & Shop and Shaw's ALWAYS have tons of stuff, and the selection seems to grow every week. On my last visit to S&S, I spotted Ambrosia Custard AND Rice Puddings, 4 different types of McVities digestives (regular, milk choc, plain choc and the sort that have the caramel in them too), Bounty bars, Ribena, Mint Viscounts (purchased!), Milky Bars, Mint Aeros, Choc Aeros, Cadbury's Flake (made in Britain), Jammy Dodgers (also purchased!), PG Tips (bags and loose), Ty-Phoo (bags), Ribena, Robinson's Lemon Barley Water, Lucozade, Heinz Salad Cream (blecccch), pickled onions, Oxo cubes, Bisto gravy granules (Beef and Chicken), Victoria Sponge cake mix, Bird's instant custard mix, a variety of Coleman's products (horseradish sauce, about 6 or 7 different packet sauces, mint sauce), of course big things of Marmite, Jacob's Cream Crackers, Heniz Baked Beanz (regular and the spicy kind), Heinz Tomato Soup, those tinned Spotted Dicks, em, and other things I just can't recall. It's now about 12 shelves at the S&S in Amity, and about the same at the Shaw's in Hamden. What is great is that the markup is generally not too bad. I bought 2 packets of Jammy Dodgers for $4, which in my opinion is worth it.

We are truly spoilt!

[rene1 0]

From what I read about other people's problems hunting down British foodstuffs, I feel like I must be living in some sort of Brit-food paradise. Our local Stop & Shop and Shaw's ALWAYS have tons of stuff, and the selection seems to grow every week. On my last visit to S&S, I spotted Ambrosia Custard AND Rice Puddings, 4 different types of McVities digestives (regular, milk choc, plain choc and the sort that have the caramel in them too), Bounty bars, Ribena, Mint Viscounts (purchased!), Milky Bars, Mint Aeros, Choc Aeros, Cadbury's Flake (made in Britain), Jammy Dodgers (also purchased!), PG Tips (bags and loose), Ty-Phoo (bags), Ribena, Robinson's Lemon Barley Water, Lucozade, Heinz Salad Cream (blecccch), pickled onions, Oxo cubes, Bisto gravy granules (Beef and Chicken), Victoria Sponge cake mix, Bird's instant custard mix, a variety of Coleman's products (horseradish sauce, about 6 or 7 different packet sauces, mint sauce), of course big things of Marmite, Jacob's Cream Crackers, Heniz Baked Beanz (regular and the spicy kind), Heinz Tomato Soup, those tinned Spotted Dicks, em, and other things I just can't recall. It's now about 12 shelves at the S&S in Amity, and about the same at the Shaw's in Hamden. What is great is that the markup is generally not too bad. I bought 2 packets of Jammy Dodgers for $4, which in my opinion is worth it.

We are truly spoilt!

WOW..........you had a real Brit Feast going on....lol, I've seen After Eights in Walmart and Value City at Christmas. But my quest this year is to go to the World Market and hunt down a real Easter Egg, I've not gotten into the easter basket thing here.

[Krikit 1,163]

Wow! You hit the motherlode, Maven!

Kinda of off topic, but.... I wonder why the Canadians get bashed for wanting/looking for Canadian and British foods, but it doesn't happen with other regions? I think I'm not understanding something.