In article >,
"Dee Randall" > wrote:
>
> It has always been my 'impression' that food stuffs could not be brought
> into the U.S. or other countries; the exception being the 'stuff' at the
> duty-free stations.
> But evidently that is not so?
> Dee Dee

Not true, although there are bans on some types of things -- usually
unprocessed stuff, IME.

My cousin brought about two gallons of dried wild mushrooms (home-dried)
five-1/2 years ago.

I've shipped stuff abroad -- canned jam and jelly, jarred molasses, wild
rice. The Aussies and the Kiwis are right fussy about what they'll let
past their inspectors -- that's their right and privilege and policy to
stop the spread of plant nasties -- and it broke my heart when I had to
give up a very nice decorated Easter egg (chicken egg, shell only) I'd
made and brought for a net friend there a few years ago.

I'm expecting some cookies from Oz any day now.
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