VJW

Men and women's Dove spray deodrant. Can't get it here in Upstate NY. Or perhaps we just smell more here, but we can't get deodrant to work as well! Probably us!

Jerseygirl

I usually bring spray deo back with me from the UK. Seems to be all stick and roll on available in the shops here...same in Canada.

Primula

If anyone were coming to visit me from England this year (and they're not), I would like them to bring me a china mug commemorating the Queen's 60 years on the throne. I love that kind of stuff for my house.

Jerseygirl

I've been thinking the same...although you can probably buy it on the internet and get it shipped here.

Primula

I definitely could do that.

washsaint

Our parents/inlaws always bring the following:

Jaffa cakes
ginger nuts
chocolate digestives
Pastis (from France obviously)
Robinsons squash
Salad cream
Marmite
PG Tips
Fruit pastilles
Twiglets
Milk Chocolate

We've found a fab pasty shop in Vienna, VA that we can get prawn cocktail and cheese and onion crisps from (yummy) as well as crunchies and other stuff that is cheaper than Amazon.

Sassyjaybabe

Sanex Deodorant
Galaxy Chocolate
Cadbury chocolate

The rest of the stuff I am happy to just have when I go back, though I have friends who would love to try some of the different Walkers crisps and they also love Glacier Mints.

Now I suddenly have a craving for a murray mint...

Primula

You could probably buy all this stuff from Myers of Keswick in NYC.

http://www.myersofkeswick.com/

I've definitely seen salad cream and Marmite in my local supermarket. Tons of milk chocolate too.

robin1234

New York City they have that stuff, not in the boonies though. I can't even get decent coffee up here (I get a monthly order of coffee beans in from Zabars.)

Primula

True, but Myers can send you stuff. We actually grind our beans from Dunkin Donuts. Pretty good coffee.

Are you way upstate? My husband also has a house in the Catskills.

robin1234

Yup.. Takes us almost a day to get to NYC (a one hour flight in to Albany, then train down from Albany to Penn Station.) Mind you the train journey down the Hudson is beautiful.. We can see the Catskills in the distance.

tonrob

Satan's spunk.

Bob

My mother left the pickled onion monster munch behind to make room for the kids swag, where were her priorities

Anyway, she was shocked that a packet of Monster Munch cost $2 when that's almost a 12 pack in her local store...that and Hobnobs costing $6-7 a packet when they're 65p at her local at the mo.

Uncle Ebenezer

I paid $4.99 for a can of Heinz baked beans and $5.99 for a small jar of Branston Pickle on Saturday.

redglade

I always bring over a christmas pudding if its the season, mixed dried fruit and mixed spice to make fruit cake, smarties and chocolate buttons for the kids, maltesers for Mr Redglade and a soreen malt loaf to scoff all by myself.