Favourite Find Abroad

quote:Originally posted by HelenF
[brI've had to resort to mail order for Green Mountain in the past and currently have about a dozen packets of beans in my freezer. You can't get Fair Trade coffee in bean form in the UK, so I use that as a salve for my conscience when it comes to postage costs and food miles.

Helen,
Do you use this site?
http://www.greenmountaincoffee.co.uk/

Best regards
alan

quote:Originally posted by ghagger
It has to be said, Hersheys sucks. My girlfriend and her family goes nuts over the Cadburys stuff I take them Gotta be the easiest way to win over potential in-laws...

I agree, cadbury is far better and my american friends all love it too. I do like the Hershey white chocolate cookie bars tho.

Oh, add Gatorade to my list of things I like from America too.

quote:Helen,
Do you use this site?
http://www.greenmountaincoffee.co.uk/

Hadn't realised they have a UK site. Thank you!

Ok,

Hawaian Punch, don't know why they don't sell the stuff in the UK.

Mountain Dew, Apparently the reason they don't sell this in the UK anymore is that ours had no Caffine in it, unlike the US stuff which is full of it and people love it!!

Southern Comfort (more alcohol in theirs + cheaper)

Tylenol, Hersheys for the wife, Aunt Jemimas Pancake Mix, Pancake Syrup.

Neil.

Jamba Juice

Great product and service (esp downtown SF)

quote:Originally posted by AndyK
Jamba Juice

Great product and service (esp downtown SF)

Mmmmmm Just wish I could find a way of bringing it home

my son who is not going this time insists that i bring back loads of lucky charms cerials !!

yuk!

[RichardMannion]

Go careful with the Lucky Charms cereals - I asked AmEx to get some sent over as a birthday gift for a colleague, and after investigation it was found that one of the colourants used is banned in the EU [:0]

Thanks,
Richard

[mitchja]

I know you can get them in the UK - not round here though and I cannot believe nobody has mentioned krispykreme doughnuts yet. That's the first thing I look for when I arrive!!!!

I could very easily over-dose on the original ones [^]

Regards

[mitchja]

quote:Originally posted by RichardMannion
Go careful with the Lucky Charms cereals - I asked AmEx to get some sent over as a birthday gift for a colleague, and after investigation it was found that one of the colourants used is banned in the EU [:0]

Thanks,
Richard

The opposite is also true - take red Smarties for example, the red colourant used in the UK is banned in the US. When the US first imported Smarties from the UK, some poor git had to seperate out all the red ones!!!!

Speaking as a Chemist here, you can usually guarantee that if a chemical is put on the banned list in the US, within a few years it will be banned here too. Here ends todays chemistry lesson!!!!

quote:Originally posted by ghagger
It has to be said, Hersheys sucks.

Absolutely agree, except the white cookies and cream bars Most American chocolate is yuk.

I take chocolate hobnobs and Trevor Sorbie Freshen and Shine Spray over for my American friends and my English friend wants 'real tea'

Having just returned I have another discovery: Atkinson's Peanut Butter Bars. Also I wish we could get Gatorade over here, it's great to get rid of that hangover thirst