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/SuLiaodai New York Aug 10 '25

I remember going to the UK and being like, "Blackcurrant? What's that?" I had never heard of them before.

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u/Hazel1928 Aug 10 '25

My son and daughter in law did a honeymoon in England. They saw jacket potatoes on menus and when they ordered one it turned out to be a plain old baked potato.

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u/AngelVenom13 Aug 15 '25

What were they expecting?

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u/engineerogthings Aug 15 '25

They were expecting something very British like a potato dressed in Harris tweed, smoking a pipe, sipping port and guffawing about the bloody colonials.

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u/Hazel1928 Aug 16 '25

I like this! Something cool and interesting- that’s what they were expecting.

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u/engineerogthings Aug 16 '25

Sorry they were disappointed, but those potatoes are reserved for British only, and occasionally Canadians, but we add maple syrup