What would American friends like in a parcel from the UK?

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I want to send my friends some things from the UK. Is there anything that goes down particularly well from the UK? Has anyone sent a gift like this regularly? They are an older couple, no kids, vegan.

Help meeeeee please!

*Recently, not regularly! 😬

Woester sauce crisps, pickled onion crisps. Pickled onions, shortbread

Twiglets

Tea

Chocolate and sweets! Our American family go mad for it!

Cadbury's chocolate, teabags - American tea is terrible

Marmite?

My American friend loves Crunchies and salt and vinegar crisps.

Vegan so several of the above are not suitable.

Does it need to be food? Oxfam do some nice vegan soaps.

Other than that things made from UK materials - sea glass jewellery? Welsh slate coasters? Some nice Staffordshire pottery?

Vegan cadburys or Lindt chocolate. Twiglets if they are vegan. Crisps, biscuits. Bombay mix.

You can get the new vegan Cadbury’s.

For a real treat have a look at Fortum and Mason vegan products

www.fortnumandmason.com/search

Oh I have one - a big tin of Golden Syrup - very useful for vegan recipes and difficult to source in the US.

And yes, some good tea.

Maltesers. You can't get them in US.

I would send some English breakfast tea, posh marmalade and a tin of vegan shortbread if such a thing exists!

My US colleagues always ask for M&S Earl Grey tea and any type of M&S biscuits when I visit

M&S Percy Pigs.

Emma Bridgewater.

Henderson’s relish
Pickled onions
Tea
Maybe some Indian curry pastes or spice mixes
Soreen
Ribena and Vimto
Elderflower cordial
Pimms

Vegan Hotel Chocolat

Something that will not be seized by Customs.

Depending on where they live, you can get most of what’s suggested above from US stores. Nice vegan chocolate (not. Cadbury’s, it’s all over there) is a nice idea

Be cautious about weight and value of what you post; US import charges are crazy on lots of stuff

M&S plant kitchen choc chip shortbread and truffles, decent teabags, twiglets (think they're vegan), kettle chips sheese and onion flavour, Bombay mix, fortnum and Mason mushroom and bean pate, some marmalade

A copy of a typically British magazine? Country Life, Gardeners World etc
Yorkshire Tea
English recipe book

This is brilliant! Thank you so much for ideas - please keep them coming in! They are in Alabama, it doesn’t sound like they have much in the way of English stores selling our stuff.

Yes, vegan, so not sure if Cadbury’s chocolate is ok, but definitely tea, maybe Emma Bridgewater, yes! I thought maybe little souvenir type things of British materials, yes.

Keep the ideas coming, please! I’m particularly stuck on stuff for him. Guess these can be joint things…

Will hit the shops on Monday. Good point about import tax arghh how do I get round that? They sent me stuff with me not paying anything.