What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Jun 9th 2011, 2:55 pm
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What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Hello! I'm not an ex pat but some of my family are currently living in New York. They're coming back for a holiday in the UK soon (to meet my new baby 
)and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?
I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
)and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
Jun 9th 2011, 3:02 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Hello! I'm not an ex pat but some of my family are currently living in New York. They're coming back for a holiday in the UK soon (to meet my new baby )and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?
I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
)and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
Biscuits & chocolates are a thing you cannot go wrong with, I doubt there is a bag of revels in all of the United States at the moment!!!
Jun 9th 2011, 3:13 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
As said above, most things can be found in New York but can be quite expensive so I'm sure anything you get for them will be most welcome.
For example, Marmite costs me about $8 for a pretty small jar so I tend not to buy it, but I always welcome it when my family gets me some. Of course that does hinge on them liking it in the first place!
Jaffa Cakes, Branston pickle, chocolate digestives are things I get sent. And also magazines - you have to wait quite a while for them to arrive here and they're generally a month or two out of date.
Or even something like good sea salt. There's a deli in NYC that charges $10 for a packet of sea salt from Essex that sells for a few pounds in England.
[Edited to add PRAWN COCKTAIL CRISPS!!!]
For example, Marmite costs me about $8 for a pretty small jar so I tend not to buy it, but I always welcome it when my family gets me some. Of course that does hinge on them liking it in the first place!
Jaffa Cakes, Branston pickle, chocolate digestives are things I get sent. And also magazines - you have to wait quite a while for them to arrive here and they're generally a month or two out of date.
Or even something like good sea salt. There's a deli in NYC that charges $10 for a packet of sea salt from Essex that sells for a few pounds in England.
[Edited to add PRAWN COCKTAIL CRISPS!!!]
Jun 9th 2011, 3:25 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Jun 9th 2011, 3:39 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Depends on where in New York State they live. If they are near to the NYC area or an Irish enclave, there is not much that they can't get from chocolate, crisps, tea, pot noodles, sausages or prepared pies.
Hello! I'm not an ex pat but some of my family are currently living in New York. They're coming back for a holiday in the UK soon (to meet my new baby )and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?
I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
)and I wanted to put together a little hamper for their room, as a nice gesture you know?I have heard that chocolate is a good one so I can get a couple of bars of Cadburys finest, but what else?
Help appreciated.
Jun 9th 2011, 4:11 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Seen something similar at the Irish butchers. Will check it out again when I stop in tomorrow.
Jun 9th 2011, 4:29 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Bovril is the Brit food I miss the most, but it's not legal to import it to the US because of the BSE scare, alas.
Jun 9th 2011, 7:00 pm
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Re: What British food favourites can't you get in New York?
Crisps and teabags 
