mrs_cruella wrote in :

> 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!
>
> Living in the land of cows.
>
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clotted cream, irish bacon, lyle's golden syrup and of course clotted
cream...

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

As to what to bring back from the UK, hahabogus suggests:
>clotted cream, irish bacon, lyle's golden syrup and of course clotted
>cream...
--------------------------
I'm pretty sure you won't be allowed to bring back bacon. And I would question
about the cream. How many hours would it go without refrigeration? Quite a
few, 3 or 4 hours before boarding in UK, plus the flight, plus arrival in Us.

"Nancree" > wrote in message
...
> >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.)
>
> -----------------
> Lyle's Golden Syrup

Can't you get that in Chicago? I can find the little tins of it here in
many of the stupid little supermarkets of upstate New York. I recently used
it in place of molasses in some gingerbread cookies. Very good.

Paula

(Nancree) wrote in
:

>
> As to what to bring back from the UK, hahabogus suggests:
>>clotted cream, irish bacon, lyle's golden syrup and of course clotted
>>cream...
> --------------------------
> I'm pretty sure you won't be allowed to bring back bacon. And I would
> question about the cream. How many hours would it go without
> refrigeration? Quite a few, 3 or 4 hours before boarding in UK, plus
> the flight, plus arrival in Us.
>
>

Clotted cream holds pretty well at room temperature. It's often
unfrigerated in UK homes.

mrs_cruella wrote in :

> 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!
>
> Living in the land of cows.

Along with the other suggestions, shredded suet and pudding rice.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:06:40 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Along with the other suggestions, shredded suet and pudding rice.

Is pudding rice anything like rice pudding?

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

<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.
--
"In Finnegans Wake, he just made up words.
Now that's just not sporting!"
...A friend on James Joyce

mrs_cruella a écrit :

> 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!

Nothing :-(((((
The US has recently banned *all* private food importation (including
boxes of chocolate that Swiss people often bring - that's how I know
that, it made the newspaper headlines here), for "security reasons"
(?!?!).

Nathalie in Switzerland

"Elana Kehoe" > wrote in message
...
> <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

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:05:53 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> (Nancree) wrote in
> :
>
>>
>> As to what to bring back from the UK, hahabogus suggests:
>>>clotted cream, irish bacon, lyle's golden syrup and of course clotted
>>>cream...
>> --------------------------
>> I'm pretty sure you won't be allowed to bring back bacon. And I would
>> question about the cream. How many hours would it go without
>> refrigeration? Quite a few, 3 or 4 hours before boarding in UK, plus
>> the flight, plus arrival in Us.
>>
>
> Clotted cream holds pretty well at room temperature. It's often
> unfrigerated in UK homes.

And it's usually pretty cool in the baggage holds of planes.
--
Tim.

If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would
be so simple that we couldn't.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:44:50 +0100, Nathalie Chiva
> wrote:

>mrs_cruella a écrit :
>
>> 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!
>
>Nothing :-(((((
>The US has recently banned *all* private food importation (including
>boxes of chocolate that Swiss people often bring - that's how I know
>that, it made the newspaper headlines here), for "security reasons"
>(?!?!).

Well, shoot. That *is* rotten news. Someone once brought me a box of
(fresh) chocolates from a 1-person kitchen in Geneva, and they were
absolutely the best chocolate I've ever had in my life, before or
since. Poor innocent chocolate.

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 21:55:47 GMT, 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.)

If you (or your friend) didn't have anything specific in mind, there's
not much point in making up a list. Kind as the offer is, many food
items are messy, perishable, and heavy. As others have pointed out,
the casual 'importation' of food or drink is highly regulated. Also,
many items can be purchased through mail-order (wouldn't want to try
this with cream!) or available in shops here. Even my culinarily-dark
corner has a 'Best of Britain' shop that stocks candies, sauces, jams,
teas, and canned goods for the homesick ex-pat.

Have your friend bring recipes and experiment together.

Yeff > wrote in
:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:06:40 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> Along with the other suggestions, shredded suet and pudding rice.
>
> Is pudding rice anything like rice pudding?
>
> -Jeff B.
> yeff at erols dot com
>

It's the raw rice one uses to make rice pudding. It's a short grain
creamy-textured rice.

Wayne

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

>
>"Elana Kehoe" > wrote in message
...
>> <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.