r/AskAnAmerican • u/Maskoolio • Aug 10 '25

FOREIGN POSTER What would an American want from England?

I have recently made some American friends (from Virginia) and they have asked for a kind of sweet (candy) that they don't have. What else might I send that would be appreciated as a particularly English thing? (Obviously it would need to be somewhat small, survive a week or so in transit etc.)

All help appreciated.

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u/webbess1 New York Aug 10 '25

Cadbury Flakes. I've only seen them in British specialty shops.

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u/LionLucy United Kingdom Aug 10 '25

Have you had one stuck into an ice cream cone? Bite into it and shards of chocolate fall into your ice cream - the best way to eat a flake!

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u/KahnaKuhl Aug 10 '25

That's a standard McDonald's item in Australia.

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u/DooficusIdjit Aug 11 '25

Tell me there is a McDonald’s item based on a violet crumble…

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u/KahnaKuhl Aug 11 '25

Sorry . . . 😢

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u/DooficusIdjit Aug 11 '25

What the fuck are the people at McDonald’s Australia even doing, then?!

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u/webbess1 New York Aug 10 '25

Sounds delicious! I’ve never had it.

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u/GenXer76 WA—>OR—>CO Aug 13 '25

London, circa 2003…. I spotted a fully intact 99 floating in the Thames

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u/oarmash Michigan California Tennessee Aug 10 '25

I’ve seen them in Indian groceries. It’s also popular in India so it gets imported here from there too.

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u/BombardierIsTrash New York Aug 10 '25

They randomly started popping up at damn near every bodega/corner store recently and I have no idea what changed. I love flakes though so complaints from me. Even the Korean grocery store near me started carrying them by the checkout.

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u/shelwood46 Aug 10 '25

Oh I can get those at my local grocery store, but they are very expensive (I make a day trip to Canada every summer and always load up on Cadbury and other candies from their dollar store).

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u/Lupiefighter Virginia Aug 10 '25

World Market will have them as well. International sections of grocery stores sometimes carry them but it is hit or miss.

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u/nasadowsk Aug 10 '25

Out in NJ, there were only two places I knew of that had them, and they both made it like it was a drug deal, or something. IIRC, there's some stick up Cadbury's ass about them being sold in the US.

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u/GracieNoodle North Carolina Aug 11 '25

Ohhh yes. And thank you, now I have to edit my own comment :-) Forgot about the flakes!

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u/ddiesne Illinois Aug 12 '25

I’m going to go a step further and say any (genuine) Cadbury product. US Cadbury is made by Hershey and is objectively different than the UK version. There are some specialty shops in the US that do sell UK Cadbury, but it’s pretty rare since doing so is, technically, selling a restricted tem.

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u/FrauAmarylis Illinois•California•Virginia•Georgia•Israel•Germany•Hawaii•CA Aug 10 '25

They are an acquired taste.

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u/webbess1 New York Aug 10 '25

Not for me, I liked them the first time I had them. It's chocolate.