What UK sweets to US?

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I'm planning to put together a care package type thing for a family in the states, have never done it before though so I'm hoping some people will be able to advise on the best things to send. I thought of sending some sweets that they may not be able to get otherwise and I know generally the chocolate is quite different but I'm wondering if anyone can suggest things that would be good to include?

I'm a Brit in the US. Sweets/chocolate I would enjoy: Flake, one of those Green and Blacks selection boxes, Curly Wurly, Fudge (the bar.. not actual Fudge), maybe some of those sherbert UFOs, dolly mix, Fruit Pastels, hob nobs/chocolate digestives, Percy Pigs. Oh, and a bottle of squash!

I recently saw a YouTube video of Americans eating and drinking UK products. Crunchies were a huge hit as was irn bru. They weren't so fond of twiglets or marmite.

Our US family like British chocolate, especially Cadbury's. As crap as our Cadburys has become now, their versions of Cadburys products are even worse. Hard to believe, I know.

Also tea bags.

I got snickers and kitkats sent to me from the US (part of a gift) and they were absolutely rank. Even the dc who hoover up pretty much anything sweet were nonplussed until they realized the potential for dares and practical jokes.

So I just wanted to acknowledge the OP’s great humanitarian efforts.

Black current squash - nothing is black current flavour in the US, they just don’t have them.

Chocolate

I don't think they do wine gums I'm the US which are THE most delicious sweet imo!

Custard cream biscuits always go down well when we send care packages. Also galaxy ripples!

Flakes, Cadbury's chocolate in general and kinder eggs?!?! Might get stopped at customs with kinder in though as they are still banned I think.

Bounty bars
Fizzy and sour haribos.
Chocolate orange

Branson Pickle would be what I would ask for. Bounty bars, Twix, Lion Bars. It isn’t that hard to get decent bars of chocolate here but all the chocolate coated things are rank. Chocolate biscuits like hobnobs would be nice too. DH used to insist on everyone bringing marmalade until I pointed out that they sell his favourite brand in our local US supermarket. Quite a lot of British food is sold here, we can get HP sauce in our bigger supermarket.

Proper butter shortbread biscuits.
Aero chocolate, Americans ask me for this, particularly the mint sort [no accounting for taste!]
Penguin biscuits
Wine gums
Individual spotted dick puddings [Americans find this hilarious, endlessly]

I wouldn't waste time with most of Cadbury's.

When I was travelling for work the following went down well.

Tunnocks Caramel Bars
Crunchies
Jaffa Cakes
Wagon Wheels
Wine Gums
Kinder Bueono

Thank You for all the suggestions. I have a Cadbury shop nearby so will pop in. Much appreciated but no idea go to tag to thank you all individually.

Custard creams (although probably won't travel well)
Typical British sweets - rhubarb and custards, humbugs, pineapple chunks etc.
Crunches always went down well when I lived abroad.

We can buy Walkers shortbread in the supermarket so don’t bother with that. I’d kill for a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer though. Or a mint Aero. I paid a fortune for a mint Aero at Universal in Florida in the Harry Potter train part, it was lovely. This thread is torture.

If you want to add some savoury I would actually kill someone right now for a pack of beef crisps. They don't have meat flavours here! The closest I can get is BBQ or sometimes bacon and sour cream or something 😥 I'm going to try Amazon but needed to not do that before this weekend.

Crunchies, Tunnocks wafers, the little concentrated Robinson’s and frazzles/monster munch.

For those missing squash, you can get it in IKEA, we usually pick some up when we go there.
What you can get in the shops probably depends on where your family is, I'm in Boston which seems to have a lot of British people.

Wine Gums
Crunchies
Bon bons
Those squishes things in pink and white
Black jacks and fruit salads
Sweets you used to find in the big jars and buy by the 1/4 back in the old days. Things like pontifract cakes and everton mints, and Chocolate eclairs, It's all stuff you can't find in the US.
They have loads of Cadburys, Licorice allsorts and normal stuff.

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