Any Americans who would like to chat snacks with me?

[MrsWP]

A friend of mine who lives in California is goi g through a rough time and I wanted to make him up a little UK snack/treat package to send over.

So far I have tea bags and some Cadbury Easter bits.

What can't you get in CA that I could send to make him smile?

Nairns gluten free biscuits
Biscoff Lotus biscuits, oat and chocolate chip

Sorry, the Nairns are oat and chocolate chip

Minstrels. I used to hand carry them by the bucket load when I worked in the US.

My US friends love getting crisps like skips, whotsits, prawn cocktail walkers..

A box of Maltesers
HP sauce
Percy Pigs
Custard creams
Kipling mini battenburg
Colman’s mustard powder
Tunnocks tea cakes

Hula Hoops.

My brother is is the US and always wants:

Cider
Brown Sauce
Worcester Sauce
Proper biscuits like Hob Nobs and Bourbons
Jaffa Cakes
Tunnocks Tea Cakes
Crisps (as above) but would also add Mini Cheddar and Monster Munch.

He would also like me to send butter, cream and M&S raspberry iced fingers but don’t think they would be nice by the time they got there!

Dark chocolate bounty bars

It's hard to get big Easter eggs here. OTOH they cost a lot to post.

Thornton's chocs and toffees are always a huge hit when we receive them.

I smiled at the suggestion of Biscoff biscuits - I've just finished a pack that I got in Trader Joes.

No suggestions but did want to say what a lovey friend you are, OP.

There’s loads of YouTube vids about Americans testing U.K. snacks.

Malteasers were popular

And l think Mcvities choc biscuits were on there too.

Is he British or American @MrsWP?

If he's in CA most of these things are easily available as trader joes has lots of British foods (owned by Aldi), we used to have chocolate buttons and gravy granules sent to us though as you couldn't get the former and the later was only available as powder. Double check customs for ca as they are far stricter than most states, you can't even bring food in from OR!

That said, milk chocolate hobnobs are always welcome. Not M & S’ version though!

@minniemoocher

If he's in CA most of these things are easily available as trader joes has lots of British foods (owned by Aldi), we used to have chocolate buttons and gravy granules sent to us though as you couldn't get the former and the later was only available as powder. Double check customs for ca as they are far stricter than most states, you can't even bring food in from OR!

Oh gosh thanks for the warning! I'll make sure to check.

Bombay or balti mix! My parents always want bags and bags of it when they visit. Plus chocolate, even simple ones like dairy milk are way better than what's available at corner shops etc there.

I'm an American who is always happy to talk about snacks, but it sounds like you want to pick out things that a Brit ex-pat would miss from the UK.

I'm in New York and I was surprised how many British items I found in the supermarket when I looked for them. There are also a few websites like this one:

britishfooddepot.com/

Maltesers!
Hot cross buns - though I guess they may not survive
Penguin type biscuits
Mr Kipling-type cake slices (most packaged cake here is just way too sweet and sickly)
Cheese and onion crisps
Easter eggs - they mostly only sell small eggs / mini eggs here
Custard creams / bourbons / hob nobs

Custard powder!

@MissConductUS

He's not an ex Pat.

Has visited London on vacation a couple of time but that's all.

I'm looking to send stuff he's never heard of or tried.