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

Not according to my American cookbook in which they feel the need to back them with shortbread because apparently florentines aren’t substantial enough

Tin of M&S or Fortnum&Mason biscuits make gorgeous presents

M&S pecan and toffee shortbread
Hobnob cheesecake cremes
Borders, most of them are nice

Yes you can get florentines. And shortbread is pretty ubiquitous. And biscuits in the sense that’s been mentioned is more of a southern thing. Most American people I’d say biscuits to would think of a grown up cookie (like shortbread, digestive and the like). Whereas a chocolate chip cookie is, well, a cookie.

Viennese whirls are really popular amongst my US and Canadian friends

Jaffa cakes (a must)
Shortbread and chocolate chip ones
Jammy dodgers

Shortbread (the biscuits in the tartan packaging)
Jammy Dodgers
Chocolate bourbons

Not sure if they have any of these in USA already though.

Party rings, jammy dodgers, rich tea, fig rolls, garibaldi - any of the less popular biscuits. Hob nobs, tunnocks tea cakes etc are in walmart. I like the idea of the m&s boxes - I might nick that idea.

My aunt has lived in the US for fifty years and still craves Jaffa cakes! I've never understood that.

I have a lot of American relatives and we take Fortnum & Mason biscuits in the tins. www.fortnumandmason.com/t/categories/biscuits/type

Lots to choose from and the tins are enjoyed as much as the biscuits!

The M&S Dark, milk and white selection? Though I would also go with chocolate digestives and custard creams which I made my poor mother bring me when I lived there!

Hey ! Many thanks for all the ideas. will post again soon when we have been to the shops.

My American rellies went mad for chocolate digestives, couldn’t get enough of them! They loved chocolate fingers too!

Chocolate fingers.

Snowballs.

Pink panther wafers

Custard creams

Those golden syrup ones. I forget the name.

Also the custard cream version of the syrupy ones

Vienesse whirls

Malted milk

Chocolate, malted milk. (( The ones with the cows on ))

My US friends love Scottish shortbread from M&S. also Cadbury covered chocolate biscuits!

I’m in the US.
I’ve just asked in-laws to bring milk chocolate digestives when they visit later this month.
I’d also love tunnocks tea cakes or caramel wafers, bourbon creams, jammy dodgers, clubs - especially orange or mint and any lovely boxes from the likes of M&S or Waitrose.

My kids would love Party Rings.

It depends on where they live.

I am in Boston area and can get hobnobs/choc digestives/digestives/choc fingers in my regular shops. I can also get a pretty good version of jaffa cakes (I actually prefer them now - not so sweet).

I can also get pretty much every biscuit at a specialty shop.

But I can't get M&S biscuits or a tin of special biscuits. I'd go for that. I'd also definitely bring crisps - they are not sold in shops here (unless you go to specialty Irish/UK shops).

I've been in the US 25 years and have never had biscuits and gravy - it is pretty much a southern thing.

It depends on where they live.

Same here. I can get most British biscuits in my local grocery store.

I'm something of an expert on US biscuits, having spent most of my life in the Deep South. Sausage gravy and biscuits is only one way to eat them, and by no means, the most usual way. Biscuits are mainly a side dish served with a meal, similar to the way you would serve a dinner roll. For breakfast, the best way to eat them is hot with butter and a drizzle of honey. But the very best way of all is a ham biscuit: country ham inside a hot biscuit with a bit of mustard. It's kind of our version of a bacon butty.

I live in the US (but I'm a Brit). I can get the following quite easily: Walkers shortbread (everywhere!), hobnobs, Jacob's Jaffa Cakes (and other European brands). McVitie's digestives (with or without chocolate). I can also get Cadbury chocolate, Aero and a few other English chocolate (including old style Terry's chocolate oranges).

I can't get, and don't see an American equivalent for:
chocolate bourbons
garibaldi squashed fly
malted milk
lemon puffs
Tunnocks
ginger snaps

I'm about to head home to the UK for a few weeks - I'll be the size of a house if I eat all those things!

My DH loves penguin biscuits. We have found them in one shop in the British section but they are expensive. Haven't found hobnobs but I'm going to look because this thread has made me want some.

On the biscuits debate, I am in Pennsylvania and have had biscuits and gravy a couple of times in the last few months.

Like previous posters have said, it depends where they are in the US. I’m a Brit who lives about 20 mins north of Boston. My local supermarket has all the biscuits and chocolates already mentioned and there are 3 or 4 Irish/English shops within about 30 mins of me if I need something different. I also buy a lot online and have it shipped to me. I would go with either M&S or F&M biscuits, they won’t be found here.

Today, while eating some (shit, over-dry) graham crackers, I longed for some garibaldi (I guess it is the way they are both joined together). That was a first though, mostly I miss Jaffa cakes, party rings and Jammie dodgers. I even buy iced gems when I am home. Even my very American child was craving hobnobs this week. British biscuits are the best!

Petticoat tails.
Dark chocolate gingers.

I've been in the US 25 years and have never had biscuits and gravy - it is pretty much a southern thing.

I'm in Maine and every single restaurant has it on their breakfast menu. Not Southern at all.

In Canada, a biscuit is a quick bread, like a scone, which my Mom called a baking powder biscuit. What the British call a biscuit is usually a cookie. Same in the US. My vote is for Jaffa Cakes. I brought a bunch back a few years ago and they were a huge hit with my work group. I don't think I have ever seen them here but they may be more available in major US cities. They are yummy.