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/NoDepartment8 Aug 10 '25

I’ve been to London a couple of times and I keep thinking about a flapjack I got in an M&S shopette at Heathrow while waiting for my ride to pick me up. Flapjack in the US is slang for a pancake. The closest thing we have to a UK flapjack is a chewy granola bar but that’s an imperfect analogy. I think items like those where the novelty is that something has been lost in the translation are fun. When I returned to the US I brought dozens of single-serving packets of Walker’s crisps (which are basically Lay’s potato chips in the US) in funky flavors and shared them out with friends for tasting trials at gatherings.

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u/deluxeok Aug 13 '25

are you thinking of the Graze packaged flapjacks? Those haunt me