On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:03:53 GMT, "Charles Gifford"
> wrote:

>
>"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.

My local supermarkets carry most, if not all, of the items above. I
live in a Houston suburb that has a large population from the UK (many
of whom work for an oil-field services corp. in the area), so that may
be the reason, but I would imagine that many supermarkets in the
Chicago area would carry those items as well.