What do expacts take home from the uk?

[Justanotheruser01]

I live in the uk and always have done (hopefully not always will!) But one thing that gets my geek interest at airports is wondering what's in people's suitcases!
What do you buy when you come home to the uk that you cant get at home abroad? And what country do you live in (if you like)?

Lived in Japan

Marmite
Heinz tomato soup
Non padded bras
Bikinis
Wotsits
Toffee
Anything from topshop
Thermal underwear

BeroccA
Paracetamol

I'm not British but my top picks for taking stuff home for my family include true grace candles, hotel chocolate and clothing (I'm from Australia so it's much better to buy clothing in England)

I'm in the USA, and usually take home from the UK:

• Nurofen plus (can't get otc codeine here)
• Cheddar cheese
• crumpets
• chocolate until it started getting shit
• bravissimo bras and M&S knickers
• decent leather shoes
• skincare stuff thats v expensive in the US
• Spray Mitchum
• Kids clothes from places like Sainsburys or Morrisons (sounds random but its better range, quality and cheaper)

I've also been known to bring

• golden syrup
• christmas cake and assorted baked goods
• monster munch
• Proper earl grey tea (none of your liptons shit!)
• Pickle

Paracetamol & Ibuprofen
Fruit pastilles
Tea bags
bisto
If it’s winter time Haggis & Pork pies
Hair products that are free delivery to a UK address
Tescos onion ring crisps
Salt & Vinegar crisps
Squash

A friend, back home to France with a case full of
Gluten free bread, cakes and biscuits
Cadbury’s chocolate
Tea bags
Bacon

Mumshotel, I've never looked- will now tho! Wonder if Waitrose sell Stottie Cakes too......

Oh and I've been known to smuggle in Greggs steak bakes but one of our supermarkets now stock the frozen Iceland ones.
There was a national celebration when we discovered those!!

Teabags (Yorkshire), lemsip, moisturiser (without 'whitening' elements), and blonde hair dye for friends with blonde hair who live in a country where no one else does.

When we lived in South Asia we'd bring a cool bag and take bread and pork products back with us from Dubai. In fact going to Dubai to visit Waitrose was a 'thing'. I scoffed at first...

Chocolate
Decent newspaper
Good food magazine
Shoes
Underwear
Atora suet
Cake decorations
Birthday cards
Face creams without whitener
Sun tan cream without whitener

Clothes. From Asda and Sainsbury, up to joules and Barbour. Books for DD. Coffee brand I can't get in Aus.

Sister in US always wanted
Branston pickle
Pickled onions
Marmite
and I used to take or send Christmas crackers, couldn't get them there and niece loved them.

I had a German friend here whose German brother always used to take a stack of crumpets home!

We are British living in the USA, we take back, maybe teabags and marmite.

Hong Kong here. Just back from a visit to the UK and brought home:

• bras
• Cadbury's chocolate (we can get it in HK but it's the Aussie version which just isn't the same)
• Yorkshire Tea
• School shoes/bags (much cheaper in UK)
• Bacon
• Boots Soltan sunscreen with built-in insect repellent
• Makeup

There used to be loads more, but I've been away 9 years now and so got used to substituting. Also as more stores ship internationally, there's less need to max out the baggage allowance.

Oh and paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen. So expensive here.

I’m really surprised by the amount of people who bring painkillers to the US from trips home.

In my view Advil is far superior and works much faster than any painkiller I use in the U.K. We found the same thing with the kids Advil.

Am I missing something?

You’re missing co-codermol, which is available without prescription in the UK.

Ah, thanks Wrong I haven’t noticed the lack!

Advil is just ibuprofen. Drugs.com suggests 24 200mg tablets should be around $11 which if true is shocking as it's around 40p here in the UK, ditto paracetamol and aspirin.

My US family and expat friends ask for chocolate hobnobs and Clubs and Penguins, kinder eggs, and the expats Marmite and industrial quantities of PG Tips.

oh! and I used to take chocolate christmas tree ornaments. Candy canes just didn't cut it

gettinglikemymother I had to take out the snap of christmas crackers- explosives,dontchaknow

MollyMally I’m not sure what Drugs.com is but my local supermarket sells a pack of 100 200mg Advil for less than $8.

If you buy a bigger packet it’s even cheaper.

I buy non branded pain killers in the UK because they are so much cheaper and I am in the UK anyway. The same is true of allergy tablets, mozzy spray, some hair products etc. Cold sore treatment was 4 times the price in the US and a lemsip equivalent was almost 15 dollars for one pack.

I'm shocked I brought a packet of cocodomals (think they was that) for about £1 at asda pharmacy how expensive they are in the USA.

I'm in Malta and we can get most things here except there is no Uniqlo or John Lewis so a clothes exped is a must. M&S Maple and Pecan peanut butter is heaven and the price visitors must pay. A bag of Monmouth coffee is also a treat. We do also pick up paracetamol, co-codomol, anti-histamines and other pharmaceutical detritus.