Posting Taytos to Dubai

acorn

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, couldn't figure where it fits !

Anyway, as it says above, anyone know if it's ok to post crisps and maybe some chocolates to Dubai. Would like to send a treat to my daughter for Christmas.

Thanks

ProudDUB

I don't see why not. Crisps and choccy are not on banned products (to post) list of meat/fish/fruit & veg etc etc

Victor

acorn wrote: »

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, couldn't figure where it fits !

Anyway, as it says above, anyone know if it's ok to post crisps

Not Smokey Bacon!

and maybe some chocolates to Dubai.

You realise that it can be 25 degrees in December?

Split

Yes , Its fine to send Taytos and chocolate .. 28 degrees just after Christmas last year bliss ! Do the typical Irish mammy - tea bags , polo biscuits , cadburys dairy milk and for variety whole nut , clove rocks , liquorice and fruit salad sweets , a postcard of a leprechaun , some fleecy socks and a strange looking t-shirt .. or on seconds thoughts that was just my mam view on what I needed to live in the Middle East ;-)

ProudDUB

Ah yes, the Irish Mammy. God bless 'em each and every one. When I lived in Georgia and Florida, mine used to send me jars of Cadburys Drinking Chocolate and Bisto gravy. Coz nothing will cool you or your house down quicker on a 110 degree day, than a mug of hot chocolate and having the oven on for 2 hours to do a Sunday roast. Oy !

OP, these days there are very few Irish communities overseas these days that don't have an outpost selling imported English/Irish foods, especially where there are a lot of expats living and working there. If your daughter asks around in Dubai, I bet she'd find one. They come in great for the heavy items like tins of baked bins etc that are to heavy for Irish mammys to post over.

km79

The thread title made me smile. This little gesture will mean so much to your daughter I'd say. It really is the small things in life that can mean so much

acorn

Good point on the chocolates, I'd better leave those out but I wouldn't have thought of the clove rock - nice one !

Thanks for the replies, I'm off to fill a shoe box with goodies

ProudDUB

OP, if I were you, I'd go to Easons or the post office and get a proper box to pack your daughter goodies up in. As the receiver of many a care package from Ireland over the years, you'd wouldn't believe the battering that they will take in transit. My mam used to use any old box that was laying around the house, wrapped it up in brown paper and sent it on its way thinking that it was grand. She thought that going to the post office and and buying a reinforced cardboard box was a terrible waste of money.

I never had the heart to tell her of the terrible state that her care packages (and their crushed and battered contents) generally arrived in. It was usually because the box itself was not strong enough to handle the weight of loads of other boxes sitting on it during transit, or she never tapped it up properly, the sides split and stuff fell out. Am sure that the few bob spent on a proper box will be well worth it to your daughter !

Don't hold off on sending the chocolate btw. It may get a bit mushy in transit due to the heat, but a couple of hours in the fridge will sort that out ok.

Split

Oh and Spinney in Jumeirah has Heinz beans , Chef ketchup , Dairy and kinder buenos , Wheatabix and so many more treats . Same in Spinneys in Lebanon . You know what would of been lovely in the box of treats some packages of soup .. I know its roasting but its the little things in life I missed. Was only in the M.E for a year but when I came home I drank soup for 2 weeks .