"Elana Kehoe" > wrote in message
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> <mrs_cruella> wrote:
>
> > I have a friend coming to visit from the UK. She wants to bring me
> > foodie ingredients. What should I ask for? (I'm in the Chicago area.)
> > TIA!
>
> Beef products (even canned) are not allowed to be brought into the US.
> Most pork products aren't allowed either (I recently had to talk to the
> USDA about what foods are allowed in). Only things that have been
> processed or cooked. I'm doubtful of the clotted cream.
>
> I'd get some nice strong tea, some digestives, *chocolate*, smoked
> salmon, bramble jam, blackcurrant anything, Flake, orange marmalade.
> Oh, and a tin of baked beans (they're in tomato sauce, and you have them
> either on toast or with breakfast...yum!). Brown sauce, like HP.
> Colman's mustard (get a tin of the dry one...so much more versatile). I
> don't know if Mikados or Kimberleys are available in the UK (I think
> they're Irish only), but they're yummy.

All the above (including the Irish pork products -both fresh and processed)
are available in the U.S. either in British groceries, mail order or online.
There are lots of British and Irish foods for sale here in the U.S. My
local British Grocery has 15,000 items available and will order what they
don't have.

Speaking of steak sauce, Alana Steak sauce is no longer available I
understand. Anyone in the U.S. needs to be careful when buying HP sauce.
Some of it is made in New Jersey and tastes awful

Charlie