Foody gifts for Canadians

[chongalolo]

Going to Canada next week, and would like to take some yummy British foods for our hosts. What do you suggest, bearing in mind that you can buy lots of international goodies in that part of the world?

[hammerman]

Can't really give an answer but check whether you can take food into Canada from the UK......the American will bang you up if you're caught taking food into their country and most international airports have sniffer dogs trained especially to sniff out food.

I suppose if you can take food over there, all the ingredients for a good traditional roast dinner would be nice.

[BBWCHATT]

Chong - we have lots of international goodies here too, but I pay $6.99 for a tiny 4 ounce or 6 ounce jar of Devon clotted cream. If you were coming to my house, I would love it if you brought me LOTS of that :)

BBWCHATT
The old lady in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

[society]

Chongslolo is Boya your father?

[thugulike]

How about Grasmere gingerbread, eccles cakes, HP sauce, Branston pickle. bakewell tart, red leicester cheese, lemon curd?

[chongalolo]

Thanks, folks! I'll prob give the roast dinner a miss - can't see myself trying to smuggle a rib of beef and gravy in my luggage!
BBW and thug - I'll seek out some clotted cream and maybe some good lemon curd or jam to go with it - and gingerbread sounds good too.
Society - yes I am the secret love-child of Boya (and Madonna) - why do you ask?

[theonlyone]

Take some tea or teabags ,and a large bar of cadbury chocolate .

[spudqueen]

Be careful about the clotted cream, I'd check whether you are allowed to take dairy products with you. I know that in the States you can't take meat products or anything with seeds. When visiting my friend in the US I took tea bags (they just aren't the same out there!), and then all the things they missed from the UK, like maltesers, battenburg cake, haribo, cadburys chocolate.

[YvonneM]

Look at this web site
http://www.canadawelcomesyou.net/

[cruella]

Everyone loves milk chocolate from UK. IF Canada is the same as the USA, their chocolate is terrible.
What about a bottle of malt whisky.

[missjef]

my mum always took over kitkat's & chocolate because as someone pointed out above the chocolate over there is nowhere near as nice and the stuff we have!
also our relatives over there LOVE giant chocolate milk buttons!!
hope this may be of some help!

[Cinnabon]

Yeah, Cadbury's chocolate is a big hit!

[patacake]

My son lived in USA for 15 years. I always took an extra case full of goodies for him. Items included chocolate in any shape or form, Jaffa cakes, home made mince pies, Christmas cake, Tea, Horlicks, Nuttalls Mintoes,. I have even taken a pair of Doc Marten boots with steel toecaps for him.