Suggestions please for something British to take as present to someone in Canada

[chai18]

I'm staying at someone I don't know for the weekend and want to take something English / British, but I don't want tourist tat. Any suggestions?

marmite or any traditional food.

something from M&S or Next - they don't have them there. My brother lives there and tried to take home a pork farms porkpie but got it taken off him at customs, shame he loves his pork pies

heinz baked beans .. its a different formula over there

walkers cheese and onion crisps

marmite

(are they british?)

when Our canada cousens came over they gave us some really nice books about the city they live in. pencils with canada on and badges for the kids. could you not do something like that but about england/britain

Jaffa cakes?
HP sauce?
Brighton rock?
Just asked my son and he said "Wolverine's from Canada so they won't need anything British." ?!

a Boden catalogue

How about a tin of shortbread/biscuits from M&S?

Bisto

A teapot - don't think they drink tea out there (correct me if I'm wrong someone). They could have it as an ornament if they didn't want to use it.

ooh, HP sauce is an excellent idea.
What about Colman's mustard?

perhaps a selection of British condiments?

Something like the bridgewater china, Linen napkins .... how much do you want to spend ?

Are you allowed to take food? I know the US is strict about lots of things, not sure about Canada.

Friends abroad used to love it when we brought boxes of tea selections, especially if they had names like English Breakfast and Earl Grey. I think Whittards do some nice ones, how about that and a fancy teastrainer (if it's loose tea)?

sorry to be dull but you DO have M&S in canada. so nothing from there!

if you are going to british columbia they are VERY fussy about foodstuffs so don't try and bring any in.

what about a book like "England from the Air" or something? Nice photos and a bit of info?

cath kidston

do you know anything about them?

if not - one of those nice books of victorian photos of the town you live in? an old Mrs Beeton's?

a traditional English cookbook could be good - but the oven temps might vary. (I have a US version of Rick Stein but the temps are different to my oven).

We canadians do drink alot of tea (especially if you are on the east coast of canada ), but coffee is more popular. However, tea from the UK would be a hit. A few years ago a canadian tea company ran these ads showing british people drinking this canadian tea (even had royal family lookalikes) with the catch phrase "only in canada, pity". what it meant was this tea was so good that even the british (the most discerning tea drinkers in the world,) would love it. I think you could get away with candy/chocolate as we have brought things like yorkie bars and penquin bars, cookies etc. also would be a hit. I personally am addicted to yorkie bars and actually go to a store that sells british candy and bars and pay almost 2 pounds for a yorkie bar!

From what I hear chocolate is a great hit. How about a beautiful book as said on here - one of the coffee table kind - and a box of Elizabeth Shaw Chocolates!!!!

A london bus.

I wouldn't take food - British food is rightly viewed as inedible crap by the rest of the world

Agree with a smart coffee table book with lots of photos of England - a pictorial history of London, for instance?

Britain from the Air

360 degree London

I live in Canada and would second the chocolate idea- its just not the same out here! Don't know about anywhere else but in Winnipeg you can get marmite and HP sauce easily (also chocolate Hobnobs mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm). We always get people to bring over vast amounts of chocolate (Galaxy & DairyMilk), jelly babies and Thorntons. Oh and baked beans too, though that might seem a little odd if they're not British

bobblehead perhaps I should set up a shipping run of Cadburys' I can buy it here in my Safeway round the corner - Erie Colorado My friend in Canada missing her choccie too.