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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Random one... I'm sending a care package to a friend in Australia with random gift bits and food bits. My question is... what food things do we have that they don't?

I already know about jaffa cakes.and Kendal mint cake. And possibly smarties. But what else?

Also been told their chocolate isn't as nice because it has something in to stop it melting?

Please help me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crisps. They don't seem to have a big variety out there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Take care: Australia is incredibly iffy about foodstuffs coming into the country

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Tunnock caramels .. Irn bru .. Vimto .. Parma violets ..

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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago

MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire)

Definitely chocolate. There are some shops sell british choc, but its horrifically expensive. My best mate lives out there now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bisto gravy and marmite

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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago

MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire)

Nutella

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tetley tea !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cadbury's chocolate and decent tea bags!!

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I'd think variety.

On a similar topic, a friend of the family has had her daughter move to Canada and she has tea sent to her. Ruddy Yorkshire tea of all things.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah I'm going to check what i can send before I send it but been on the customs website thing and it says chocolate and sweets is ok. Some dairy products etc etc as long as I declare it properly. The fines come from not declaring everything.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire

Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Galaxy..

My friends sister took a tonne back last week, as they cant get it.

Oh.. And bizarrely, oven mitts!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about some TimTams

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

decent cheeses too and table biscuits x

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over a year ago

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By *heffmMan
over a year ago

sheffield

A bottle of Hendersons relish, nectar of the gods

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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon

You can get jaffa cakes, smarties and most of the same Cadburys chocolates as you get here. Processed foods are fine to send but anything fresh, which could possibly contain disease is prohibited.

The best thing to do is ask your friend what products they are missing. Or google "British foods in Australia" and go through the online shops that cater to ex pats there.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I've tried asking her but she's not sure lol. She did say she's never had jaffa c cakes so that is in. And she can get reeces from "lolly shops" which I'm guessing is like our random imported sweet shops lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

proper tea,tetleys,pg or yorkshire tea always seems to be a popular surprise when all my british mates who live in oz randomly find a box and post the pic on facebook lol

then here's stuff like colmans mustard & hp sauce..

I'm gonna be spending all of next january in sydney so no doubt I'll get shopping lists of stuff to take with me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have just returned from Aus. Their Jaffa cakes and chocolate taste quite different and you have to hunt high and low for unsmoked bacon but otherwise you can buy most things you get here. Titans are just penguin biscuits in a different wrapper.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either"

Yorkshire pudding mix?

You mean that they don't have flour, eggs and milk?

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By *onitoMan
over a year ago

Milton of Campsie


"I have just returned from Aus. Their Jaffa cakes and chocolate taste quite different and you have to hunt high and low for unsmoked bacon but otherwise you can buy most things you get here. Titans are just penguin biscuits in a different wrapper. "

Titans ? do you mean Tim tams? if so they are much better than Penguins

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By *ingle Beds LassWoman
over a year ago

Bedfordshire


"Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either

Yorkshire pudding mix?

You mean that they don't have flour, eggs and milk?"

Course they do but I have failed every attempt at making yorkies from scratch.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Maybe I'll send the Yorkshire pudding recipe lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either

Yorkshire pudding mix?

You mean that they don't have flour, eggs and milk?

Course they do but I have failed every attempt at making yorkies from scratch."

What's going wrong with them? Maybe i can help. It is Sunday after all

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By *onitoMan
over a year ago

Milton of Campsie


"Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either

Yorkshire pudding mix?

You mean that they don't have flour, eggs and milk?

Course they do but I have failed every attempt at making yorkies from scratch.

What's going wrong with them? Maybe i can help. It is Sunday after all "

Probably the same old reason with not heating up oil or fat etc first before adding pudding mix

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Their sausages are very different tasting to ours. Someone once said to me it's because theirs have more meat lol Chocky is yuk too. We asked my mum to bring over cereal and Yorkshire pudding mix as they did not have them either"

Oz don't know the secret to making your own yorkies !?

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

My friend often asks me to bring chocolate, bisto, Colmans sauces.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep. Tim tams not titans. The orange ones are nicer.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Mm orange penguin.

We missed bassets jelly babies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bio-yoghurt.

Apparently they're a bit lacking in culture.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Culture doesn't go in a box lol.

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