Best biscuits to take for US visit please

[JayeAshe]

Hi we are going to USA shortly. Please give me some ideas for biscuits not usually found there, we'd like to take some to family.

Last time we took shortbread and would welcome other suggestions
Thanks all

Tunnocks tea cakes

Jaffa cakes

Hi there all,

We're going to move this over to Chat for OP

I always get asked for the m&s selection boxes for extended family and tunnocks for my sister.

Custard creams
Foxes crunch creams
Jammy dodgers
M&S posh chocolate ones

chocolate hobnobs

Just don’t ask for biscuits over there. Definitely not the same as here.

lotus biscuits
shortbread

Aren’t ‘biscuits’ scones over there?

Biscuits are similar to plain scones, I love them and make them at home with sausage gravy.

Scones and gravy? That’s either completely bonkers or evil genius.

Definitely evil genius, try it.

Biscuits and Gravy is an abomination of a breakfast!

I'd also say Jaffa Cakes and a range of Tunnock's, eg tea cakes and snowballs.

Bath Oliver and chocolate Olivers.

The selection box is a good call, OP.

My friends are always grateful for good old McVities choc digestives! In fact I took some to a gig abroad and passed them round during a set-break - the ex-pat Brits and Aussies fell on them like they were gold

Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. Or M&S chocolate selection. Or anything with nice chocolate on it. Here in Boston I can get Walker's shortbread in any food store.

Biscuits and gravy are almost as foul as grits.

Not biscuits but I’d take Thornton’s toffee. Have a great trip!

I like grits too, I'm clearly quite odd

I’d take a couple of family circles. That way everyone can choose what they fancy. Or try a variety of different types

Dark chocolate gingers- best biscuits in the world.

We have mcvites, hobnobs and many British biscuits sold here. There's even a local store selling Duchy biscuits.

Custard creams and jammie dodgers we don't have. We also don't have decent flavoured crisps. No chicken, beef or bacon. And no Scampi Fries or Frazzles!

Yeah I know ...
Biscuits USA =/= scone type dumpling things with gravy
Cookies USA =/=biscuits UK
Our USA family like UK biscuits ha ha !

Thanks for the recommendations so far, any more would be v welcome

And the gravy is more like mushed up sausage in white sauce, rather than what we would think of as gravy in the UK.

I was going to say shortbread, but you've already done that.

I'd take Borders biscuits, probably the chocolate ginger ones. Or jaffa cakes. Can you get florentines in the US?