British-y gifts for Americans

You do realise that taking food that isn't recognised into the US could give you a lot of issues, though. Honestly, next time I go to the US I'm taking along clothes and music. That's it.

I got pulled over for a jar of Bovril. The guy in front of me was led off by customs for bringing in a ham sandwich.
 
doofski said:
Fruit pastels, wifes family loves em, take some bread, Warburtons if you can get it or hovis. Or if you havent got the space some crumpets.
Most stores round here sell Tea, they even have yorkshire tea.
HobNobs go down well too.
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bread? and to be specifically, Hovis or Warburtons???

They might be British, but they are not what I would give someone. I mean Fruit Pastels, yes. That's is unique but bread? Surely their fresh bakery can do better bread than Hovis? You might as well bring them the wrapper for sentimentality since taking them for flavour reason is just crazy!
 
Isn't Branston Pickle something else that has no real equivalent in America?

With heightened security in American airports I think it may be difficult getting any jars/cans through customs.
 
I would take some nice British tea, a selection of.

You cant take bread into the US, and cadburys chocolate??? wtf lol
 
They sell cadburys creme eggs and dairy milk and everything in America.

I would say the most bitter english marmalade you can find, pork pies, colmans mustard.
 
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EDIT: Beaten!
 
i've taken 2 loaves of warburtons before, as long as you declare all the food, they will tell you if its not acceptable, we used to fill 1 suitcase with food and 1 with the clothes. Declared everything, customs xrayed the bag, opened it up and checked it all. They didnt take anything off us. This was at Boston.

The bread over here is crap.
 
doofski said:
i've taken 2 loaves of warburtons before, as long as you declare all the food, they will tell you if its not acceptable, we used to fill 1 suitcase with food and 1 with the clothes. Declared everything, customs xrayed the bag, opened it up and checked it all. They didnt take anything off us. This was at Boston.

The bread over here is crap.
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What is so crap about it?
 
Cadbury's seems widely available here to be honest (owned by Hershey's, which is the worst chocolate you could ever taste by the way).

I'd take the Marmite and Yorkshire Tea (I've had that with a few friends and they pretended to enjoy it at least).
 
Hatter The Mad said:
I'm going to visit some Americans soon and would like to take over some small British-y gifts.

Cadbury's Chocolate is one, any other ideas?
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If you smoke roll ups take your own tobacco, filters and papers. I was in California a few years ago and couldn't find them anywhere.

Apart from that take some brown sauce :)
 
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