What UK chocolate bars/sweets can you readily get in the US?

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Can you buy Mars bars, Cadbury's Creme Eggs, Jargonelle Pear Drops, Thornton's toffee?

What British chocky can you get there?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Mars bars - yes, I think
Eggs - definitely

I haven't heard of the others.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Topic? Bounty?

I think I've heard tell of KitKats and Snickers there.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Mars bars & Cadbury, but I don't think they import the chocolate.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

If they make Cadbury's under license there, does it taste the same as in the UK?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Surely KitKats and Snickers are not British candy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Canada gets a lot more... well, British Columbia does at least. You can get Aero there.. I LURV Aero chocolate mint bars.

There's also an overpriced but tempting Sweets Shoppe in Victoria BC that imports directly from the UK.. so you can get Nestle's caramel flavored bar, the name of which I forget, and many other things you can get in the UK.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Does Heath's toffee products exist in the UK? Heath's is all over the states.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

cadbury's here is very sweet and milky. Bounty here is a chocolate and coconut thing. Er, here being the US. If you look hard enough, you can probably find anything you want, 'readily' is the key word here. I like hershey's special dark, but it's not always carried alongside the milk chocolate hersheys.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I would wager that the same brand chocolate made in the UK and the US would taste different, just like "imported" beer tastes different.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of Heath's over here (i.e. UK). Is it nice?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

The Berkeley Bowl has an "English" section which amuses me every time I do my grocery shopping. I was never really a fan of Bovril or PG Tips anyway so I'm never tempted. They have Aeros and Jelly Babies at ridiculous import prices.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of Heath's over here (i.e. UK). Is it nice?

If you've never heard of it, it probably means you'll hate it. :)

Though I bet you can't find THIS in the UK:

http://i20.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/fa/41/f7_2.JPG

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone in the US heard of Thornton's chocolates?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

i can get aero/lion bars in stop n shops throughout massachusetts. Cardullos in cambridge had a selection imported choco bars from the UK and switzerland or something

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Here in Britain, you can order various types of candy and sweeties from North America, Australasia, South Africa, China and Japan from:

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

YEAH IDAHO SPUD!
Least appealing candy ever.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

i can get aero/lion bars in stop n shops throughout massachusetts. Cardullos in cambridge had a selection imported choco bars from the UK and switzerland or something

Oh, that's helpful to know as I am sending my parcel of British Confectionery to MA. I didn't want to include anything in the selection which can be readily bought there already.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Something you can't readily get in the US NOR the UK:

http://www.tourismnanaimo.com/content/articles_img/t_a_97_i_26.jpg
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/cookies/cookieimg/nanaimo.jpg
http://www.lodgingnanaimo.com/images/nanaimobar.jpg

Nanaimo Bars!...

There are few places in Seattle you can get them, but they are certainly not uncommon in Vancouver, and they're very easy to find in Vancouver Island (Victoria and, believe it or not, Nanaimo). There are gazillion recipe pages for the Nanaimo bar.. very decadent.

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Those look familiar DC... as in, a kind of slice housewives make here to msell at cake stalls. Not called Nanaimo tho.

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/acatalog/99.jpg

This is the shiznat - Cherry Ripe, baby!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Hm this is interesting - this comment on Aus Cadburys chocolate from cybercandy.co.uk:

Australian Cadburys Chocolate unlike its UK counterpart is made only with whole milk and no vegetable oil.

EW! You guys have oil in your choc? No wonder ours tastes so nice - its all cocoa and milk like it should be, ha ha! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

CJ, stopnshop has the aero mint(much moreso than the regular choco ones) and stopn n shops might not be found in western mass.

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

There's a liquor store right around the corner that specializes in things British like 'crisps' and whatnot. I have never checked if they've got any UK chocolates but then I only eat dark chocolate. I do not recall liking the candy much in Britain a

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

omg i can get peppermint pigs at cardullos. rock!

― come on sock it to me, Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Anyone ever bought from this place? http://www.aquarterof.co.uk

All the traditional sweets you used to get in shops but can't anymore.
Just a shame they dont sell the wham bars the same size as they were 20 years ago.

― Andy Jay, Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Just a shame they dont sell the wham bars the same size as they were 20 years ago.

????

http://www.pooh.cz/upload/img/1096/wham.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Which one is the chocolate and which one is the nougat?

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 10 February 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

If I could get a lot more Australian candy, I would be a much happier person. (As it is, I can get crunchies, cherry ripes, flakes and violet crumbles, and while those are all at the top of my list, there are so many more things...)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 February 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

DC, not sure if it's still there, it's been a while, but there's a store on Denman (and Haro?) called Sugar Mountain (apt name for a Canadian store) that has a bunch of English sweets. Curly-Wurlies, even!

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 11 February 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

you can't find the interesting cadbury bars in the US, or I can't anyway. ("interesting" meaning all the standard ones you can get in the Tube).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 11 February 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Can you get any of these in the UK?

http://flakmag.com/misc/images/whatcha.jpg

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/images/items/Large/hfca100.jpg

http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/5096773/CharlestonChewChocolate.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 11 February 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

The Cadbury dairy milk bars you can get here at Target & Walgreen's are made under license by Hershey's and therefore taste like Hershey's Waxy chocolate. I know you can get the real ones at some specialty shops. But I've never seen the Cadbury's hot chocolate anywhere here, and it's my favorite thing EVER.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Can you get Germany's favourites?

http://l-e-e.tv/img/2004/040307_01.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 11 February 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

In DC, Rodman's has several shelves of British foods (and a new section of South African stuff). I don't remember what candy they have, but I'm pretty sure they have the Cadbury's hot chocolate.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Surely KitKats and Snickers are not British candy.
!!!!!!!!!!!

The Kit Kat was invented by Britain's Rowntree confectionery company back in 1935, but until 1937 was called the Chocolate Crisp.

The Kit Kat name is thought to derive from a club of the same name in 1920s London.

It has long been the most popular chocolate bar in the UK.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

also, of course, NO FUCKING KINDERSURPRISE IN THE US

the chocolate is shit but the toys!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 11 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

they have kinder eggs in the russian deli down the street from me. i guess i am spoiled, but the feds just found missing russian radioactive material in chelsea somewhere, so you take the good with the bad

― come on sock it to me, Friday, 11 February 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Luna, I know Trader Joe's sells Kookaburra licorice, which is basically really chewy, delicious cherry flavored red licorice nuggets that are to die for. They may not be made in Australia, but they still rule.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

David A, need to visit Sugar Mountain next time I'm up in Van!

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

I actually enjoy Charleston Chews, but they should be penalized as they don't use real chocolate. At least that's what I can remember from reading the label one time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

If you're after another Aussie lollie (this reminds me, I was gonna tell Tep about all our weird chocs and I forgot to), apparently our Chicos are a unique thing which I didnt know. Chocolate jellybabies. Theyre... weird. I dont really like them.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Argh note to self, image googling "chicos" DOES NOT get you jellybabies :(

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Maynards Wine Gums are available at most supermarkets.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 11 February 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

oh man I want to put some dickmann's in my frischebox.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

There are British goods stores dotted throughout the country that would be able to help you out as far as British candy goes. And this stuff is the real thing, i.e. imported directly from Britain. The local one is called British Sensations and used to have a website, but it is far from the only store in the U.S. or even in this particular part of the U.S. to specialize in British goods -- this site can be a handy guide to other stores throughout the nation, some with websites.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 11 February 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

You can get Aero here in Illinois. I tried it once and that was more than enough. Blech.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

tea and sympathy in new york has lots, including dairy milk, cadbury,and the Galaxy chocolate varieties. They also have very expensive videotapes of Father Ted.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Ha! Trayce I love chicos. I ruined a perfectly good bottle of Absolut with chicos.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/images/lo2108.jpg

― kate/papa november (papa november), Friday, 11 February 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

DC: "Oh to live on Sugar Mountain..."

http://www.sweetiebag.com/product_images/details/Cadbury

(I'm suddenly obsessed with these, having not thought about them for ages.)

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

I'll concur that it's easier to find UK chocolate in Canada, anywhere in Canada, than in the US. You can often find things like Flake (and other Cadbury's things) in your regular convenience store, and that's not to mention the import shops (which are quite common). Interestingly, UK chocolate is far less available in Québec.

Also, for those in Canadian cities hard up for a fix, try your local Indian/West Indian grocery. A lot of these shops stock imported products from the UK (even Heinz Beans!) cheaper than the import shops.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 11 February 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

So (generally speaking), most Brit chocolate is quite widely available throughout the US? And I read above that a few people don't even like the taste of it? Sending a care package of UK chocky bars to my US friend doesn't seem quite such a good idea any more, harumph. I shall have to think of something else instead.

― C J (C J), Friday, 11 February 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

> So (generally speaking), most Brit chocolate is quite widely available throughout the US?

i don't think that's true. a lot of the names are the same but it's not the same thing (and often they use the same names for different things). import shops are expensive (as is sending chocolate by air mail). it's probably worth doing if your friend has a non-cadbury favourite.

the US has nice chocolate of its own btw

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it totally depends on where your friend lives, and which candy they like the most.

creme eggs are pretty much available everywhere, as far as i know, along with (possibly hershey's produced, i don't know) dairy milk and whole nut bars. most of the m&m/mars candies are available as well-- snickers, mars, kit kat, etc.

i used to crave flake bars, and someone sent me a box full once, which was great. and they don't have green and blacks, at least that i've ever seen. or thorntons.

i'd never seen some of the non-chocolate sweets you have here, like sherbert things, and puffy UFO things and the like. that might be a way to get them something that they'd only be able to find in a speciality store in the states.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 11 February 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Okay, this is clearer now. Thanks everyone for the input:)

I wanted to choose something which my friend wouldn't be able to buy readily in the US, so it looks like perhaps a Thorntons selection might be the best option. I guess that Thorntons chocolates are going to taste quite different from the Hershey bars he's used to, but hopefully he'll like the UK Taste Experience.

― C J (C J), Friday, 11 February 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

CJ, you could try some of the more bonkers crisp flavours too, roast lamb and mint, deep fried camebert with cranberry etc. I think they're mainly a UK thing.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

The Kit Kat name is thought to derive from a club of the same name in 1920s London.

1720s London, surely?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

the more interestingly-flavoured crisps are definitely a good idea as far as novelty value goes, as well as "limited edition" sweets like blood orange or lime-yoghurt kit kats.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

I read recently that flavoured Kit Kats, which we only get as limited editions in the UK, are commonplace in the rest of Europe.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 February 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

also, of course, NO FUCKING KINDERSURPRISE IN THE US

I think Rodman's has it (they also have a German section). Although your description does not make me want to run out NOW and get it.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

the chocolate isn't so much bad as secondary. just a thin little shell to encase the cute toy surprise.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

i've mainly had cadbury's and the like in aus/nz, and it was addictive and wonderful...i assumed the british stuff was exactly the same, though the cadbury's here in the US is much different of course.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes you can get German chocolate and other biscuit goodness at Aldi's in the US.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I used to think the Creme Eggs were too damn sweet, but I've come around in the last couple of years. Does the UK have the little Cadbury's Mini Eggs (the candy-coated ones)? I love those.

I miss Cherry Ripe, but I could never get on board with all the "musk" flavored candy in Australia. It was like eating candy with perfume dumped all over it. I once heard it described as tasting "suspiciously like raw meat," though I never got that impression personally. What's up with that?

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

i just had a cherry ripe last weekend! it was so sweet it was disgusting! I kind of liked it.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, we have mini eggs here. They appear at the beginning of January along with creme eggs and both are like crack to me.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

What and where is Rodman's, Julia?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Rodman's is a Washington-area minichain of stores carrying specialty foods, particularly imported foods, at slightly better prices than grocery stores. I go to the one on Wisconsin Avenue, just south of the Friendship Heights metro stop.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

http://espn.go.com/i/magazine/new/metro_dennis_rodman.jpg

..where you exclusively buy's Rodman's Own products...

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Cadbury's eggs are fucking disgusting BTW. And why are Jelly Babies so expensive in the British import shops? I want to carry them around in the pocket of my overcoat but they're just ridiculously priced.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 12 February 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah, dear dear Donut. You just reminded me of the two women I saw at the DC DMV who looked as if they has stepped out of the Rodman family photo album--hair dyed colors that don't exist in nature and coordinating spandex wardrobes and copious facial piercings.

The older of the two appeared to be the mother of the younger one.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Surprised nobody has mentioned the sticky 'uk mars bar=us milky way' wicket yet..

Also, Heaths Toffee (at least in bar form) is quite a lot like a Dime Bar (or, for those of you who do your confectionary shopping from a small trolley 30,000ft in the air, a Daim Bar).

― strophic (strophic), Sunday, 13 February 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

One of the Publixes in Englewood, Florida has a British food section.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

CJ, you could try some of the more bonkers crisp flavours too, roast lamb and mint, deep fried camebert with cranberry etc. I think they're mainly a UK thing.

My kingdom...

― luna..., Monday, 14 February 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

The other day I went to Rodman's to specifically check out the Eurocandies. The British section had a selection of UK-made Cadbury and Nestle, Walnut Whips, and Lion Bars. The German section sadly was lacking Dickmanns. They did not have Kindersurprise, but they did have something called Kinderbueno; according to the label it appears to be made by the Ferraro Rocher people (mmm mmm mmm mmm I love chocolate-hazelnut stuff).

Of course, the whole store seemed kind of stripped, presumably due to the immiment Valentine's Day. The best times of year to shop at Rodman's are probably during the run-ups to Christmas and Easter, when the store goes all out in stocking seasonal goodies.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Some brief UK candy notes:

Stop And Shop and Giant (I think pretty much any Ahold Inc supermarket, so Tops too) have some of the UK's candy selection. Aeros, Caramilk sometimes, and Lions. World Market typically carries a lot of stuff (for instance, Violet Crumble bars) too. If you're in Florida, there's a place called the English Shop at Old Town in Kissimmee that has basically every kind of crisp and candy bar imaginable from the UK. I bought a dozen Double Deckers for the drive back home to CT.

As for American Candies, while Idaho Spud rules it in a weird way, its all about...

http://oldtimecandy.com/images/candypix-pages/cherry-mash_small.jpg

― Alan Conceicao, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Oddly, you can easily get M&M/Mars products in the U.S. Could this be because it's a U.S. company? Mars is a family-owned business. Most of the family members live outside Washington, D.C. in Virginia. And they're rich. Oh, so rich. Products are probably different in the U.K. as has been suggested.

The Virginia 100

MARS FAMILY
McLean and Arlington. The Mars family remains as publicity-averse as ever running their candy and pet food empire that includes Mars bars and Whiskas cat kibble. However, brothers Forrest Jr., 71, and John Franklyn, 67, did undertake discreet political lobbying to repeal Virginia’s tax on estates valued at more than $1 million, without ultimate success. Sister Jacqueline, 63, lives in New Jersey.
Net worth: $11 billion

― Choko, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

can you get irn bru bars or highland toffee bars in the states?

― willdabeast, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

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