What UK treats can I send to The USA

[krisgar]

I have a friend in Pennsylvania who has never left the USA and I'd love to send her a small parcel of treats and snacks that we get over here that they don't have in The USA.

So far I can think of:

Dairy milk bars
marmite
salt and vinegar crisps
kinder eggs (although they are banned in the USA so I'm not sure if id be allowed?)

maybe a keyring with the union jack on or something?

any suggestions?

Galaxy flake!

Just any chocolate as US chocolate tastes like vomit

Eccles cakes
Uncle Joe's mint balls
Vimto sweets (in place of a bottle of cordial)
Fruit pastilles
Polo mints

Galaxy chocolate, PG tips, bovril, maybe some cakes (mr Kipling was a good one, Cherry bakewells and French fancies etc) - anything shelf stable should be okay 😊

They did have kinder egg style things when I was there recently, they do have kinder chocolate!

Twiglets!

(Nephews are American and these confuse the hell out of them 😅)

Jaffa cakes
Percy pigs

Jaffa cakes

Shortbread biscuits
twiglets
Hulahoops
prawn cocktail
jam dodgers
hobnobs
chocolate fingers
Tannocks?
Oxford marmalade
baked beans haha
Do they have fererro rocher?
Green and black chocolates
monster munch pickle onion

Monster Munch are fun to get reviews from people when they don't know what to expect.
Apart from the obvious Cadburys things, Hotel Chocolat is usually popular. Or things from M and S.
Worth remembering that depending on where it's being sent to some things don't travel well. I think it's often better to send sweets and crisps over chocolate for example.

Monster munch

My cousins loves:

Monster munch
Prawn Cocktail Crisps
Mini Cheddars
Proper biscuits like bourbon and custard creams
Yorkshire Tea
Crumpets (depends how quickly your parcel will arrive)
Percy Pigs
Colin Caterpillar cakes
Tunnocks Teacakes
Malteasers
Robinsons Squash

Percy pigs

Jaffa cakes

Cartons of ribena

Jaffa Cakes! How could I forget, also Licquorice Allsorts and Wine Gums.

Chocolate hobnobs and Wagon Wheels also a hit.

I'd check the postage,it costs a fortune now. I used to send parcels all the time but the cost of postage is completely prohibitive now. I used to send digestive biscuits, maltesers and tea bags. Thornton's chocolates go down well too.

Salad cream
lyons midget gems
dairy milk
squares

Postage is insane. I used to send my DB a care package of Cadbury chocolate every month (the Cadbury US chocolate is a different recipe to the Cadbury U.K. chocolate).

But he’s found a British import shop in his city and he shops there all the time. We had one we went to when we were expats as well. It was a great shop with a tea and scone cafe in it and the centre of our expat community…we held things like Dr Who costume day…it was a blast.

A proper English jam (selection)
Digestives/custard creams
I would have said cadburys but that was taken over by an America company...

Digestive biscuits are the one thing that US friends always ask for. Any kind - plain, chocolate, caramel ones etc - they all seem to be greatly appreciated.

@C1N1C they have been but the U.K. version is still different. We were just over there a couple of months ago and took some small bars to leave with tips for the hotel staff, one guy told me they were his favourite and way better than anything available there

Dairy Milk and Green & Black’s chocolate is widely available in US supermarkets. Shortbread biscuits are widely available.

@krisgar - check if your friend has a www.Traderjoes.com near to where she lives as they sell ‘British’ crumpets and English Breakfast and Irish tea bags. (I miss Trader Joe’s!). TJ’s is owned by Aldi and there are some Aldi and Lidl stores in the USA so their version of Jaffa cakes are sold there.

I would definitely send Maltesers (although I was able to buy big buckets of them intermittently when available at Costco in the USA). She might be a Costco member!

Percy Pigs
Hob Nobs
Marmite
Lemon curd
Branston Pickle
Picnic choc bars
Twiglets
Soreen Malt loaf (tell her to slice it and spread with butter!)

American chocolate tastes disgusting to us, because their rules on shelf life and heat stability are very different to ours. That's to do with the country it's made in, not the nationality of of company who makes it.

US "chocolate" can't be called chocolate in the UK.
UK chocolate can't be called chocolate in Belgium.

It's all to do with the cocoa butter and dairy content, which adds to the taste, but also to its instability. US food laws require food to have a much longer shelf life, overall much wider temperature range than most other countries. So Kraft can use different chocolate recipes in different countries.

I can get everything on your list except the Kinder egg (and they do have a Kinder egg thing, it’s just not the one with a toy inside) in my local supermarket in California. Being East Coast, I would expect all that to be pretty easily available to your friend too.

That might be good - British tastes she might not have tried but can easily get if she ends up liking them.

Stuff that others have mentioned seem to be less available and might be more “exotic” for her.

My dd visits the US frequently to visit friends.
They ask for super noodles (curry flavour) and veggie gravy granules!

Trader Joe's sells crumpets.

Everywhere sells shortbread.

You can buy salt and vinegar crisps but not monster munch, hula hoops or prawn cocktail.

Percy pigs are popular and chocolate buttons and flakes.