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

No crisps in the US? I find that really surprising, I thought crisps were fairly ubiquitous?

I know they call them potato chips but are they different enough for people to miss UK style crisps?

Yes. I think Lays/Walkers are owned by the same people. But the flavours are all wrong here!

I lived in the rural Midwest years ago (before the internet!) There was absolutely no British or Irish anything then. I would have cried with joy to see a digestive biscuit. I also had biscuits and country gravy fairly often!

Yeah Jaffa cakes! You can get them there but they're so expensive!

The olive oil Lays you get in Spain are amazing. Mmm.

Why import crisps when you have ruffles and crunchy cheetos that 'contain artificial color' - so the finger staining neon orange isn't from the cheese .

Marks and spencer raspberry creams. Basically the best jam and cream biscuit you'll ever taste. Or a box of the chocolate covered ones.

I don't get the Jaffa cake love at all.

Fortnum and Mason biscuits. Buy online.
What airport are you flying from? Harrods and Fortnum and Mason are in some duty frees so you'd save luggage weight and tax by buying there.

If you are buying for Americans and not expats I would avoid Jaffa Cakes. Orange and chocolate is a strange combo for many Americans (not all).

Also what you buy is really dependant on the weather and how long they will be out of air-conditioning. I recommend the M&S most chocolate biscuit selection boxes but only if you'll be able to keep them cool. Otherwise they will be a massive, melty mess in most of the states right now in a matter of minutes. ☹️

We have crisps in the US, but as pointed out, we call them potato chips, or just chips. But we don't have many of the flavors that are available in the US, some of which would seem strange to most Americans. Basically, it's plain, barbecue, sour cream and onion, cheddar and sour cream, and variations of these.

I love Jaffa cakes. It is an unusual combination, but most people I know who have tried them, like them. We can get them where I live, though, so I know they are available in some places in the US.

How about Eccles cakes or chorly cakes ?
I know they're not biscuits but they tend to be in about same kind of time with a brew.

Ive noticed a lack of variation in crisps/biscuits* in the US too SenecaFalls, and other countries. There needs to be some kind of international convention to standardise this sort of thing. It’s a very important issue.

*see also sausages and bacon. S

Sainsbury's Spotty Scotties.
Café Noir.

Many thanks to everyone who posted.

We live on a boat so could only shop at Tesco with a fairly restricted choice. Nevertheless picked out Tunnocks wafers, bourbons, custard creams, malted milk biscuits. Next time we visit we will bear in mind all other suggestions esp. the M & S selections - sound great

We live on a boat... whoa wait what’s that - on a boat?!!! I’m so jealous!

This is our narrowboat in which we cruise the waterways of England and Wales.

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I’d be a bit feart of sleeping on one (but then the canal does have some dodgy sections further up) but love to visit the book shops that have popped up!