200 bags of Tayto, 1,000 Lyons green label

OU812

Visiting a buddy in the states shortly. He’s Irish & the number one thing he misses from home is tayto, so I got him 200 in different varieties (100 C&E, the rest mixed).

I’ve also got him some cream crackers & Lyons tea & Jaffa cakes.

He’s not really into sweet stuff.

What else would you Irish living over there recommend bringing over?

He knows none of this so hopefully none of you are him ðŸ˜

duffysfarm

bag of turf

RaySla

Barry's tea and dairy gold butter is a must

Bicyclette

Stuff from Penneys.

I have a daughter living in Asia. She was home a few weeks ago, and all she wanted to do was pick up some stuff from Penneys. While we were in one particular shop we met two other mothers shopping for their adult children living abroad (USA and Canada). Both of them were saying that they had to regularly send out Penneys tshirts and other stuff.

BENDYBINN

A copy of Ireland’s Own..

Twink

iamwhoiam

Bisto gravy
Tea brack
Heinz ketchup

BronsonTB

He can buy the Tayto online & have it delivered to his door in the US.

BailMeOut

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Heinz ketchup

Heinz ketchup is American!

When I lived in USA the two main things I had shipped were Barry's Gold label tea and YR Brown sauce.

iamwhoiam

BailMeOut wrote: »

Heinz ketchup is American!

When I lived in USA the two main things I had shipped were Barry's Gold label tea and YR Brown sauce.

Funny enough its one thing my kids wanted brought over !
And Mc Cambridge bread and Ready Brek !!

tuxy

RaySla wrote: »

Barry's tea and dairy gold butter is a must

Barry's is the better tea but giving it to someone who is a Lyons drinker won't get a good reaction.
If he's originally a west brit he will want the tea from the UK company (Unilever owns Lyons)

OneEyedORourke

McDonnells curry sauce.

coylemj

A bale of peat briquettes.

Sounds like he isn't from Cork (Lyons Tea) but in case he is.... a bottle of Tanora. Otherwise, a bottle of TK red lemonade.

BailMeOut

We send my sister and her kids hula-hoops, cadbury tiffin and YR sauce. That's all they ever want.

miamee

We were always asked to bring brown sauce, sausages, rashers and pudding, brown bread and Cadbury's chocolate to the aunts and uncles in NY. YR sauce is still a favourite I don't think you can bring the sausages, rashers and pudding any more though, can you?

theteal

Not getting into the Lyons vs Barrys thing but for jayzis sake man it needs to be Gold blend either way :eek:

seannash

https://www.amazon.com/tayto-crisps/s?k=tayto+crisps

It's 2019, he can get all that's stuff online of he's really missing it

ceadaoin.

That's a lot of crisps! Friends brought us over loads last year and we didn't eat them all before they went out of date and stale so it was kind of a waste. A couple of 12 packs would have been grand lol.

What I really want is superquinn sausages but they can't be brought over unfortunately

BailMeOut

Aren't Tayto disgusting though? When abroad it's just that you cannot get "cheese and onion" flavour anywhere so you get nostalgic about them so why not send some proper crisps like Keoghs or O'Donnell's cheese and onion instead?

grindle

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Heinz ketchup

Small mistake, buy you've misspelled 'Chef'.

Tell me how

RaySla wrote: »

Barry's tea and dairy gold butter is a must

You've some cheek to suggest Barry's tea to a Lyons Man!
I'm not surprised you didn't cop this, you being a Barry's drinker.

él statutorio

Pretty much everything can be got on Amazon. Tea, sweets, beans etc
Irish butter is widely available too. There's very little you can't just order online anymore.

If it was me I'd want Keoghs or O'Donnells crisps, I can get them on Amazon, but they are not cheap.

Interestingly enough, most of the stuff I get from Amazon comes via a place in Tipperary.

tuxy

él statutorio wrote: »

Interestingly enough, most of the stuff I get from Amazon comes via a place in Tipperary.

Yes from Thurles, it's a company that specialises in garden equipment...

I guess they already have the shipping contract and decided to branch out.

absolutegroove

duffysfarm wrote: »

bag of turf

Thanks for that - I genuinely laughed for nearly ten minutes :-)

antodeco

Koka noodles
Red lemonade
Dairy Milk

tuxy

absolutegroove wrote: »

Thanks for that - I genuinely laughed for nearly ten minutes :-)

I know it actually comes in a box when you order online to America!

https://www.amazon.com/Cappabane-Irish-Turf-Peat-14-16/dp/B00QW1LSPM/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=turf+peat&qid=1559160681&s=gateway&sr=8-6

Disappointing that it's currently sold out.

mordeith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLApn5y7Mo

Stanford

Bring Ryan Turbidy with you

Donald Trump

miamee wrote: »

We were always asked to bring brown sauce, sausages, rashers and pudding, brown bread and Cadbury's chocolate to the aunts and uncles in NY. YR sauce is still a favourite I don't think you can bring the sausages, rashers and pudding any more though, can you?

Wouldn't chance it now for rashers and sausages. Apparently a big fine if you are caught

tuxy

Donald Trump wrote: »

Wouldn't chance it now for rashers and sausages. Apparently a big fine if you are caught

Bacon products are available in the USA.
If you're going to take such risks you need to import blackcurrant.

FatherTed

Poitin

él statutorio

tuxy wrote: »

Bacon products are available in the USA.
If you're going to take such risks you need to import blackcurrant.

You can get blackcurrant in the States, Ribena via Amazon and the plants are available (not widely though).

con___manx1

I got bisto sent over when i lived away and lyons tea and tayto.

taytobreath

meanies

Fathom

RaySla wrote: »

Barry's tea and dairy gold butter is a must

Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

Rubberchikken

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

gar32

I live in Germany and after 8 years I have got used to the local food. It just nice to have a treat now and then to remind you of home.

I can buy Chocolate here now when I couldn't when I 1st move over. Tea here is OK but not as strong. I could live without Lyon's if needed but sure if I pack 120 pack each time why not.

I seat with a few Irish in work and we talk about food at home a lot. Stuff that is not here. Cakes are different, Take away's are not as nice. Chinese and Indian are made different then they would be in Ireland.

2nd to Family is food on the missed list

SandyMac1234

Rashers and sausages with Brennens bread! And kerrygold.

Donald Trump

tuxy wrote: »

Bacon products are available in the USA.
If you're going to take such risks you need to import blackcurrant.

Bacon is available but you will struggle to find either rashers or decent sausages. They don't do the cuts for the rashers unless you are somewhere like NY where they might have a fella supplying shops that do a lot of Irish (or UK) products. Either way, if you are caught trying to bring them in it's an automatic either $500 or $750 fine. Something of that magnitude

Kerrygold is something you can get in any half-decent supermarket over there. It'll be on the shelf in with all the American butter.


As for blackcurrants, I think that the absolute ban was removed a few years ago. I think the plant itself was banned rather than the berry itself. Fresh berries might be a problem maybe but if they're in jams or dried or processed in some way. But even then, I'm not sure the plant is still under a blanket ban


As for those Kinder surprise eggs................I think they are still illegal to import although there was some court case a year or two ago so maybe that changed since.

él statutorio

Fathom wrote: »

Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

It's cheaper in Costco!

Palmy

SandyMac1234 wrote: »

Rashers and sausages with Brennens bread! And kerrygold.

Kerry gold butter is in every Publix supermarket in Florida

micks_address

Palmy wrote: »

Kerry gold butter is in every Publix supermarket in Florida

Yep in the market baskets in new Hampshire to.. as are barrys tea bags...

Hoboo

Rubberchikken wrote: »

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

It's a bogger thing. Same ones that wear gaa jerseys to the beach and sing the fields of anhenry and Galway girl after a few pints.

Donald Trump

Rubberchikken wrote: »

i dont get this bringing over irish food. the whole point of living in a foreign country to me is eating foreign food. id never miss taytos or tea or sausages or whatever. just my take.

What is the longest stretch that you have lived abroad for?

BailMeOut

if you like Irish tea and live abroad there really is no substitute available. If you were a coffee drinker you are grand but irish blend tea is unique and none of the foreign equivalents work as an alternative.

ceadaoin.

For tea drinkers living in the US, Trader Joe's have an Irish breakfast tea that's pretty good. I just discovered it recently. Saves a fortune on buying expensive Irish teabags!

él statutorio

ceadaoin. wrote: »

For tea drinkers living in the US, Trader Joe's have an Irish breakfast tea that's pretty good. I just discovered it recently. Saves a fortune on buying expensive Irish teabags!

I drink it in work, it's not bad but not quite as good as the stuff from home.

Side note, Trader Joe's also do excellent non UHT milk which is on a par with home,

ceadaoin.

él statutorio wrote: »

I drink it in work, it's not bad but not quite as good as the stuff from home.

Side note, Trader Joe's also do excellent non UHT milk which is on a par with home,

Is there something wrong with the milk here? I always just buy the red top ones from various stores and don't taste any difference?

Third_Echelon

él statutorio wrote: »

Originally Posted by Fathom
Kerry Gold sold stateside in Trader Joe's.

It's cheaper in Costco!

In California its pretty much the same price in Trader Joe's vs Costco. In Costco you have to buy the 4 box mulitpack.

Pretty much anything you want you can buy online and get delivered these days. Amazon or Planet Candy in Cork ship.

él statutorio

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Is there something wrong with the milk here? I always just buy the red top ones from various stores and don't taste any difference?

Yeah, most of the milk is UHT or "Ultra Pasteurized" which is pretty much the same as the little things of long life milk you get in hotel rooms. It doesn't taste the same as fresh milk. It doesn't need to be refrigerated either.

If you can find milk in glass bottles it's usually "regular" milk like we have at home. TJ's organic milk is like the stuff at home too.

You can usually tell by the dates on the milk, non UHT will usually be good for up to 10 days. UHT milk is typically a month or two.

él statutorio

Third_Echelon wrote: »

In California its pretty much the same price in Trader Joe's vs Costco. In Costco you have to buy the 4 box mulitpack.

Pretty much anything you want you can buy online and get delivered these days. Amazon or Planet Candy in Cork ship.

True, we go through a lot of butter so Costco makes sense.

Wasn't aware of planet Candy in Cork, will have to check it out.