Taking food to the States!
Sep 14th 2013, 7:22 pm
#16
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Re: Taking food to the States!
I love English cheese and I will confess to putting a few selections in a lunch box with a small ice pack once. Many years ago I took some home made smoked salmon from Alaska all the way to London. I'm such a badass.
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Sep 14th 2013, 7:31 pm
#17
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Re: Taking food to the States!
I always bring tea back with me and always state also on the customs forum. My cases are always sent for x-ray when I put tea on the form.
I did have fun bringing packs of Cheshire Cheese out of the UK.
I did have fun bringing packs of Cheshire Cheese out of the UK.
Sep 14th 2013, 8:43 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Always? Odd. I always put tea on the form and am never questioned or hindered in any way. It must just look innocuous next to the five or six bottles of Scotch I bring home from the Heathrow duty-free shop, lol...
Sep 14th 2013, 9:41 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Do you guys not just buy the tea here?
Sep 14th 2013, 9:44 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
WOW Sally I get them at Safeway, Giant, Wegmans. Let me know if I can ever help you with them.
That's sweet. I can survive for now.
Sep 14th 2013, 9:56 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
There's a customs forum? I'll have to join that one....
Sep 14th 2013, 9:57 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Yes always. I fly into Newark.
Sep 14th 2013, 10:18 pm
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Re: Taking food to the States!
How much you all paying for teabags PG tetley? - this feels so petty but hey I wanna know since my specialist shops are way expensive. Luckily my supermarkets are awesome having such great stock of International foods - just wondering.
Sep 15th 2013, 12:05 am
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Anyway, yeah, plenty of teas available here, but they aren't half expensive compared to the UK. My mother sends me a couple shopping bags full, on the slow boat when it's on sale and it's only a few squid compared to the $50 it would be here...we are talking the thousand count numbers
But at the mo, Amazon on sale have x2 240 count PG Tips for $25 which is half decent.
Sep 15th 2013, 12:07 am
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Got a Wegmans near by? They do have a good collection of loose tea leaves, ranging from a few bucks a pound to $200 a pound for some green tea, which has me really curious, but not enough to want to get any and try
Anyway, yeah, plenty of teas available here, but they aren't half expensive compared to the UK. My mother sends me a couple shopping bags full, on the slow boat when it's on sale and it's only a few squid compared to the $50 it would be here...we are talking the thousand count numbers
But at the mo, Amazon on sale have x2 240 count PG Tips for $25 which is half decent.
Anyway, yeah, plenty of teas available here, but they aren't half expensive compared to the UK. My mother sends me a couple shopping bags full, on the slow boat when it's on sale and it's only a few squid compared to the $50 it would be here...we are talking the thousand count numbers
But at the mo, Amazon on sale have x2 240 count PG Tips for $25 which is half decent.
Sep 15th 2013, 12:14 am
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Re: Taking food to the States!
That's not really very cheap considering.
Sep 15th 2013, 12:15 am
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Re: Taking food to the States!
Ouch, bit of a hike just for some tea.
I'm a bit lucky for tea places, quite a few around so there's good choice. It's just expensive and a lot of it tends to be herbal of green tea.
Surprisingly, found loads of places up around where we lived up in Maine though.
I'm a bit lucky for tea places, quite a few around so there's good choice. It's just expensive and a lot of it tends to be herbal of green tea.
Surprisingly, found loads of places up around where we lived up in Maine though.
