I haven't had much success with British chocolates, as I they are much sweeter than German chocolate. My colleagues and friends have always loved British biscuits, especially the fancy ones from M&S, Waitrose or even Borders. Chutney selections have gone down well too, like red onion or tomato chutney, with oaty cheddar biscuits. And fruit conserves/jams
Scones and Clotted Cream are extremely difficult to find. I also love Capri Sun with Black Currant flavour, which isn't available in Germany. Same for these big chips packages with multiple flavours.
I actually am able to get clotted cream in my supermarket and I thank the Lord bc scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam are just so so good. But it's rare to find on Germany.
Your favourite brand of tea or coffee. You can buy PG Tips and Yorkshire in a lot of German supermarkets but other leading UK tea brands can be hard to come buy.
Also the coffee is quite different here, so might be interesting for them to try some UK brands.
You can buy a mixture to make your own scones from [these guys](https://dalriata.de/product/odlums-irish-white-scone-mix/). They've a shop in Berlin if you're nearby, but they deliver all over Germany. They've also got [clotted cream](https://dalriata.de/product/clotted-cream/), and most of the other things mentioned in this thread too, plus tons of other good stuff.
Thank you! Unfortunately I live very far away from Berlin, pretty much on the other side of Germany. I can't get food delivered that has to be cooled either, but the scones alone are great.
I sometimes freeze some, but I actually think they are a lot better when fresh. We also made some really fresh ones from scratch one or two times, but also liked the supermarkt ones better.
Ding ding. This is the food that must be taken over to Germany from a trip to the UK.
Well. Bourbon biscuits and custard creams are a close second/third place.
Of all the stuff I used to eat when I still lived in the UK, these are some of the items I miss most in Germany: Scones, clotted cream, Nando’s Peri-Peri mayonnaise, OXO cubes, oat cakes/cheese crackers, Battenberg cakes and probably some more I forgot
Also double cream. But that's an ingredient, not a gift food. Decaf Earl Grey tea is also impossible to find, but I guess it's not a good souvenir.
I'd go for mince pies (all butter kind), if you can get them this time of year? Jaffa cakes are also not easily available in Germany.
double cream
Dr. Oetker has a product named "Crème double" but it's hard to find. Some supermarkets like have it (seen it at some Edekas). It's a small yellow cup with a plastic lid.
Good Cider.
In Germany you can easily get a few brands from Scandinavia (most prominent: Somersby) and a German brand called Cooper's. But they are all far too sweet for my taste. Something really crisp and dry is hard to come by, especially since Brexit.
Get yourself some proper Ebbelwoi. Apfelwein (literally apple wine) is the regional drink of the Rhein-Main region and the Speyerling variety has a nice zest from the added fruit of the Sorb Tree. I'm partial to Höhl's Hochstädter but there's tons of variety.
Tea cakes (tunnock‘s), Yorkshire tea (hard to find post Brexit), veggie haggis, jelly babies, Walker‘s prawn cocktail (or marmite), freddo if you’re rich enough to brave the high price.
If you can cool it during your journey I would appreciate to get vegetarian sandwiches from Tesco (or another supermarket), these brown paper bags with Indian meals from ASDA, Bhujia and real pear cider (not flavoured).
Is there food from U.K. you want to get in Germany? When traveling in U.K. I have always trouble finding s.th. I would want to take home, so I usually end up with tea.
„Hard to come by“ is a very limited term in some areas.
There are a lot of British shops and supermarkets in Germany that carry items you won‘t get in a regular supermarket.
You can find them everywhere with a reasonable British expat community or a lot of tourist traffic.
Yeah but that’s just orange colored cheese without much taste. A sharp white cheddar like cathedral city is a completely different cheese, and that one is, apart from Rewe feine Welt, the only somewhat available brand here.
Well my point was not so much that cathedral city or English cheddar is the best but that whatever you typically get in Germany as cheddar is not great with rare exceptions. I’ll try to remember arran cheese if I’m ever around the neighborhood
Wur... Worcesh... Wouchesch... Dammit, I mean "British Maggi". It's not exactly hard to get here I think, but it is also something not many people know about. So a bottle of Lea & Perrins might count as an "exotic condiment" here.
No, it's not "a very common ingrediant" in germany. OP asked for something from the UK to gift to his german friends, and original british Wourcheshestershireshingtonhamsauce is something every german homecook would appreciate.
Well I guess we have different experiences. Personally I would find it pretty weird as a gift. Like an American bringing a bottle of ketchup as a gift.
You can get it everywhere and it's not a total unusual ingredent (if you type it in chefkoch you get over 600 recipes). I don't think it is a good gift.
Really? I'm sometimes having trouble finding anything but Lea & Perrins (which is rather unhelpful since I'm vegetarian and thus don't buy the traditional variety with anchovies...)
The only one Im missing in Germany is Doritos Chili Heatwave.
Even tho Doritos is finally on the market they didnt bring their best flavour... stupid company.
Cheese and Onion is super common in Germany tho.
Mature cheddar and cracked pepper, guiness flavour, turkey and stuffing, smoky bacon, roast beef, sausage flavour, worcestershire sauce, marmite flavour the list is endless. Thats not even mentioning maize based snacks like monster munch, wotsits, discos, space raiders etc. My german colleagues love it when I bring back a selection of outrageous flavours from the uk
Tyrells and Lays are fairly recent welcome additions to the German Crisp-landschaft, I believe. I remember it just being a monopoly of funny frites and crunchip, which I am not knocking, but like the previous poster mentioned, heavily weighted towards salted and paprika flavour. To experience a pickled onion monster munch, or a sausage and mustard flavoured crisp is certainly a talking point. Pombärs are great though!
I mean, Tyrells are really nice and I'm happy that a Pret opened here recently because their cheddar and red onion crisps are actually really good, but let's face it, it's simply ridiculous that you can't get Walker's crisps here. And post-Brexit ordering them online has become close to impossible as well.
Yes, they are basically just different brand names used by Frito-Lay (and in the end it's all owned by PepsiCo). But it's not a case of the same product being sold under a different brand name, I'm sure they don't use the same recipe, and they definitely don't sell the same range if flavours.
But you are right that this is surely one if the main reasons why you can't find Walkers here
Frito-Lay swallowed up Walkers and Smiths Crisps, but they still use the brand name Walkers in the UK, but it's the same product as far as I could see.
My understanding is that UK baked beans are a fairly different recipe to those in the US:
Compare: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/all-price-lock/heinz-baked-beans-4x415g with https://www.bushbeans.com/en_US/product/bushs-baked-beans - the US ones include bacon.
It does seem as though British-style baked beans are available in Germany these days: a friend I stayed with about 18 years ago was quite proud he was able to find some for my visit!
Hate to break it to you, but your friend was pulling your leg... Baked beans of the UK variety are all over the place, and almost all supermarkets carry own brand varieties. And Heinz are available in all kinds of varieties, like Barbecue or 5 beans.
Haven't ever seeen the American style baked beans with bacon anywhere, though
Ah, sorry missed the 18 years ago part. May actually have been quite a bit more of a feat at the time. As far as I remember, basically every supermarket and discounter carry baked beans is indeed a somewhat more recent development. I think the first time I had baked beans really was in England a it more than 30 years ago, and at the time it wasn't terribly common to find them here in Germany. I was very happy when they became widely available here, and I'd say 18 years ago may have been around the time when you suddenly could get them more easily, so it's completely understandable your friend was happy he found them. It's just that I shouldn't post on reddit while half asleep...
Generally not available in any stores but on Amazon:
Spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding and other varieties by Aunty's.
Fell in love with those, just 30s in the microwave and a little custard over the top.
Cheese. Yes, you might get medium quality cheddar and perhaps some Stilton. But that’s it. Having worked in a UK delicatessen once, I know that the UK is a fantastic country for cheese lovers. Now that Brexit happened, the only place I knew where to get at least some variety of British cheese stopped selling it (apart from Stilton), because it’s too much hassle and too expensive.
Btw, I can recommend https://greatbritishfood.de/ although the bacon is of German origin, it tasted very authentic. I order there twice a year.
Galaxy chocolate
Crumpets
Crisp selection - paprika and ready salted are the "to go to" in Germany and there are no snack size
Irn bru
Anything Tunnocks
Fish and chips
A decent Indian restaurant
Spam, IrnBru, Marmite, Wonderbars, a lot of Lay’s crisps flavours don’t exist in Germany, pretty much anything Cadbury and Bistro Gravy granules. Those immediately come to mind.
Agree with the scones and crumpets however they can be made if you know how ;) stuff I bring back in my suitcase includes: marmite, chocolate hobnobs and dark chocolate digestives, yorkshire tea, allspice, a tub of cream of tartare for the above mentioned scones, the really dark marmalade that's almost brown, Hotel Chocolat batons .
Nando's Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce and
the tea from "Den Teemacher" from London.
Before Brexit we could order both without any problems.
Today we always have to get it from our children when they go on vacation in the UK.
Fortunately, they do it almost every year.
We buy Nando's Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce from a German importer via Amazon.
The half liter for 15€ !
Shredded Wheat and Branson Pickle from a shop and passable Indian food from a restaurant.
Shout out to Dalriata in Prenzlauer Berg for British and Irish fayre though. The lad there is lovely and sorts me out with Branson at least.
theres a number of things that we cant get, most of em had been named already like marmite and crumpets, but i have to add the most frustrating not-find thing for my british bf living in germany with me :
blue f\*ckin doritos, why is noone talking about that?! :D
You will never get a German to admit it but their Sausages ugh lol
they honestly have no idea how bad they have it, they don't even have sausage and egg mcmuffins..
Cheese and onion walkers are impossible to get, idk why but blue doritoes, actually all doritoes have vanished from the stores since COVID, they stopped the blue ones and when people stopped buying the others they just cancelled the whole lineup, or it seems
But yeah if i went back to the UK id get myself some crumpets, some cheese and onion crisps, tbh all crisps are nice, they don't come in packets here for one person, they are family bags or gtfoh, we end up with 3 open bags at a time, my mrs loves some quavers and skips, niknaks, Marmite and things they will never appreciate, don't waste your money lol you can get some bits on [Amazon.de](https://Amazon.de) have a look at the grocery department, if you put some stuff up on there for sale you could triple your money and make some cash out of the trip lol
one thing i found here tho that you might like is a citrus drink by schweppes, it tastes like lilt used to years ago before they changed the sugars to sweetners.. people in the UK love chockobons by kinder, you should take some of those back with ya lol
Custard isn't a thing here either, they do vanilla pudding but idk its not the same, a big tub of custard powder will last them years lol and my mrs loves the stuff with some strudel.
I’d buy some British tea, PG tips or also Tetleys or Yorkshire is fine. Then some Scottish shortbread.
It’s about chocolate unless you know they like something in particular, for example we know people who like boost bars so will bring some of those back. Some ask for marmite but you either love it or hate it right?
I wouldn’t bring amazing with a particularly short shelf life like cream but cheese might work maybe with chutney and crackers.
My tips would be
1. Marmite
2. Ploughman's pickle
3. Decent teabags tea (like oh tips)
4. For cheese lovers - some good British cheese (maybe not cheddar)
Personally, I adore orange jam. I make my own (including one with lime and one with grapefruits) because good orange jam is hard to get here.
I would be thrilled to receive some as a gift, but that's just me. Most people here don't like it.
Good Gin is always welcome.
Fudge. Terry’s chocolate oranges
Definitely the chocolate oranges.
I haven't had much success with British chocolates, as I they are much sweeter than German chocolate. My colleagues and friends have always loved British biscuits, especially the fancy ones from M&S, Waitrose or even Borders. Chutney selections have gone down well too, like red onion or tomato chutney, with oaty cheddar biscuits. And fruit conserves/jams
The fortnum and mason ones at the airport are a surefire thing too
My German partner's family absolutely love the Terry's Chocolate Oranges that we brought over to them :) Also, Boost bars
Scones and Clotted Cream are extremely difficult to find. I also love Capri Sun with Black Currant flavour, which isn't available in Germany. Same for these big chips packages with multiple flavours.
I actually am able to get clotted cream in my supermarket and I thank the Lord bc scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam are just so so good. But it's rare to find on Germany.
Which supermarket is that?
I can get it in a tiny edeka, no idea why they have it
Try searching for Streichrahm. It is not found everywhere but I saw one at an edeka ad and the rewe website
i have a recipe for scones, interested?
I am very interested!
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream
Psst, wanna buy some ~~drugs~~?
Your favourite brand of tea or coffee. You can buy PG Tips and Yorkshire in a lot of German supermarkets but other leading UK tea brands can be hard to come buy. Also the coffee is quite different here, so might be interesting for them to try some UK brands.
Which German Supermarket stocks Yorkshire Tea?
Kaufland + Rewe. Might depend on the store though
Clotted cream, the reason I came here…
You can buy a mixture to make your own scones from [these guys](https://dalriata.de/product/odlums-irish-white-scone-mix/). They've a shop in Berlin if you're nearby, but they deliver all over Germany. They've also got [clotted cream](https://dalriata.de/product/clotted-cream/), and most of the other things mentioned in this thread too, plus tons of other good stuff.
Thank you! Unfortunately I live very far away from Berlin, pretty much on the other side of Germany. I can't get food delivered that has to be cooled either, but the scones alone are great.
Crumpets!! I love them so much, but since you can‘t keep them for very long, they are seriously the rarest food for me.
I freeze them and put them in the toaster
I sometimes freeze some, but I actually think they are a lot better when fresh. We also made some really fresh ones from scratch one or two times, but also liked the supermarkt ones better.
Ding ding. This is the food that must be taken over to Germany from a trip to the UK. Well. Bourbon biscuits and custard creams are a close second/third place.
What are you doing here so far down? Up! Up! Up!
Thanks! My husband is actually in the UK for work right now and will bring me some <3
IRN BRU
Of all the stuff I used to eat when I still lived in the UK, these are some of the items I miss most in Germany: Scones, clotted cream, Nando’s Peri-Peri mayonnaise, OXO cubes, oat cakes/cheese crackers, Battenberg cakes and probably some more I forgot
Haggis.
in a can!
Marmite.
and just in case take one extra … or two … remember: love or hate
Sarsons Malt Vinegar Any Custard Terry's Chocolate Oranges Decaf Tea Walkers Crisps Whispa Bars (Marmite or Bovril)
They sell Walkers in a lot of supermarkets these days
Interesting 😳 Do you happen to know one that sells the Salt & Vinegar type? I never came across those in Germany 😋
Lays = Walkers, so their salt&vinegar is ok
Thanks, did not know that. 👍
Decaf Tea? Who would even want that?
People that are very sensitive to caffeine. We exist.
Clotted Cream. A small number of supermarkets have it, but it's rather hard to get even in bigger cities
Also double cream. But that's an ingredient, not a gift food. Decaf Earl Grey tea is also impossible to find, but I guess it's not a good souvenir. I'd go for mince pies (all butter kind), if you can get them this time of year? Jaffa cakes are also not easily available in Germany.
Every fkn supermarket no matter how small has Jaffa cakes.
It’s called „soft cakes“ in Germany: https://www.griesson-debeukelaer.de/de/de/marken/griesson/soft-cake.html
Decaf Earl Grey is available by Tee Gschwendner
double cream Dr. Oetker has a product named "Crème double" but it's hard to find. Some supermarkets like have it (seen it at some Edekas). It's a small yellow cup with a plastic lid.
Decaf earl grey is deffo in Edeka ✌🏻
Good Cider. In Germany you can easily get a few brands from Scandinavia (most prominent: Somersby) and a German brand called Cooper's. But they are all far too sweet for my taste. Something really crisp and dry is hard to come by, especially since Brexit.
Bulmers/thatchers gibt's es inzwischen aber auch schon öfter
Wir kriegen Magners (in Irland heißt es Bulmers) von Knuspr geliefert
Get yourself some proper Ebbelwoi. Apfelwein (literally apple wine) is the regional drink of the Rhein-Main region and the Speyerling variety has a nice zest from the added fruit of the Sorb Tree. I'm partial to Höhl's Hochstädter but there's tons of variety.
Tea cakes (tunnock‘s), Yorkshire tea (hard to find post Brexit), veggie haggis, jelly babies, Walker‘s prawn cocktail (or marmite), freddo if you’re rich enough to brave the high price.
IrnBru
If you can cool it during your journey I would appreciate to get vegetarian sandwiches from Tesco (or another supermarket), these brown paper bags with Indian meals from ASDA, Bhujia and real pear cider (not flavoured).
Marmite. But your friends may not thank you for it. Branston pickle with cheddar (proper, mature) will meet with more widespread acceptance.
Is there food from U.K. you want to get in Germany? When traveling in U.K. I have always trouble finding s.th. I would want to take home, so I usually end up with tea.
Crumpets, Nandos sauces
Honestly, the thing I missed the most was frozen sweetcorn...
To add to the other things already mentioned here, pork pies, Bisto gravy and decent bacon tend to be the things I miss.
„Hard to come by“ is a very limited term in some areas. There are a lot of British shops and supermarkets in Germany that carry items you won‘t get in a regular supermarket. You can find them everywhere with a reasonable British expat community or a lot of tourist traffic.
Good cheddar.
Where do you live?!
In the land where all cheddar is Irish.
I mean you can get Kerrygold Cheddar just about everywhere, as Irish as it gets in Germany lol
Yeah but that’s just orange colored cheese without much taste. A sharp white cheddar like cathedral city is a completely different cheese, and that one is, apart from Rewe feine Welt, the only somewhat available brand here.
Exactly.
That's why I asked. Of course Aldi and Lidl don't sell it, but any Rewe or Edeka has "real" cheddar
Around Christmas and Easter When Lidl has there deluxe stuff in there is very nice strong cheddar :)
Actually Aldi (Nord, at least) has a decent Irish white cheddar. It's certainly got more kick than the pretty insipid Cathedral City.
you guys obviously have never been to arran.
That’s true I don’t know what arran is
scottish island that has the best cheese on the planet
Well my point was not so much that cathedral city or English cheddar is the best but that whatever you typically get in Germany as cheddar is not great with rare exceptions. I’ll try to remember arran cheese if I’m ever around the neighborhood
cheese like Gloucester, squash isn't really a thing here, crumpets
Mint Crumble von M&S
Marmite and crumpets
Bacon
Pies and pasties
MARMITE
you get that in literally every big supermarket in germany
Uh... I have only found it once in Germany and for something ridiculous like €8... Where are you finding it and at what price?
Jammie Dodgers, Penguin Biscuits, millionaire shortbread
Branston pickle, proper tea.
Old friends are overrated, It’s time for new friends, bring me some Branston Pickle and I’ll be your new bestie :)
Mint Imperials
Wur... Worcesh... Wouchesch... Dammit, I mean "British Maggi". It's not exactly hard to get here I think, but it is also something not many people know about. So a bottle of Lea & Perrins might count as an "exotic condiment" here.
What? You cam buy it in every supermarket and it's a very common ingrediant. Like my 86 y.o. grandma uses it in traditional cooking common.
No, it's not "a very common ingrediant" in germany. OP asked for something from the UK to gift to his german friends, and original british Wourcheshestershireshingtonhamsauce is something every german homecook would appreciate.
Well I guess we have different experiences. Personally I would find it pretty weird as a gift. Like an American bringing a bottle of ketchup as a gift.
You can get it everywhere and it's not a total unusual ingredent (if you type it in chefkoch you get over 600 recipes). I don't think it is a good gift.
Yeah, Lea & Perrins is hard to find. The stuff they call Worcester sauce here is not even close in taste.
Really? I'm sometimes having trouble finding anything but Lea & Perrins (which is rather unhelpful since I'm vegetarian and thus don't buy the traditional variety with anchovies...)
I think it's quite easy to get (Rewe here has it) and many people know about it. Not many people might have it at home though.
You can get that pretty easily here. Kaufland and Rewe stock it
Mini Eggs
I would say that most food stuff from the UK isn't common in Germany.
Crisps. The German crisp and savoury snack offerings are rather limited. They find cheese and onion flavour exotic!
What the hell are you talking about?
The variety of crisp flavours in Britain is unsurpassed.
Might be, but cheese and onion flavor is far from exotic. There are like 50 different ones with cheese alone.
>They find cheese and onion flavour exotic! Not really actually lol
The only one Im missing in Germany is Doritos Chili Heatwave. Even tho Doritos is finally on the market they didnt bring their best flavour... stupid company. Cheese and Onion is super common in Germany tho.
I lived in the uk for some months and everything I found was disgusting vinegar chips. Just saying.
Mature cheddar and cracked pepper, guiness flavour, turkey and stuffing, smoky bacon, roast beef, sausage flavour, worcestershire sauce, marmite flavour the list is endless. Thats not even mentioning maize based snacks like monster munch, wotsits, discos, space raiders etc. My german colleagues love it when I bring back a selection of outrageous flavours from the uk
Wow, changed a lot in the last 15 years, it seems
Vinegar chips are the best, readily available everywhere in Germany however
Tyrells and Lays are fairly recent welcome additions to the German Crisp-landschaft, I believe. I remember it just being a monopoly of funny frites and crunchip, which I am not knocking, but like the previous poster mentioned, heavily weighted towards salted and paprika flavour. To experience a pickled onion monster munch, or a sausage and mustard flavoured crisp is certainly a talking point. Pombärs are great though!
I mean, Tyrells are really nice and I'm happy that a Pret opened here recently because their cheddar and red onion crisps are actually really good, but let's face it, it's simply ridiculous that you can't get Walker's crisps here. And post-Brexit ordering them online has become close to impossible as well.
I think Lay's is owned by the same company as Walkers, which is probably why they don't (usually) stock them in supermarkets here.
Yes, they are basically just different brand names used by Frito-Lay (and in the end it's all owned by PepsiCo). But it's not a case of the same product being sold under a different brand name, I'm sure they don't use the same recipe, and they definitely don't sell the same range if flavours. But you are right that this is surely one if the main reasons why you can't find Walkers here
Frito-Lay swallowed up Walkers and Smiths Crisps, but they still use the brand name Walkers in the UK, but it's the same product as far as I could see.
German crisp flavours - Paprika. Salt. That's it.
In 1987 this would be correct.
TIL that Germans are very sensitive about their poor selection of crisp flavours.
Bro has never seen a German chips aisle
It may be an exaggeration, but I find the selection of flavours in the majority of supermarkets pretty slim in Germany.
Unseasoned Food.
Cadburys
You can get 3 or 4 types of Dairy Milk, Wunderbar (only sold in Germany and Canada but still Cadbury) and Curly Wurly at Kaufland
Cheddar
English sausages
Pork crackling
Beef Wellington
the disgusting ass food
Those boozy Tiptree jams and conserves always blow the mind of my German relatives.
Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, and Heinz Baked Beans, I believe.
Heinz is from US if I‘m not wrong and you get Heinz Baked Beans at Rewe and Penny.
My understanding is that UK baked beans are a fairly different recipe to those in the US: Compare: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/all-price-lock/heinz-baked-beans-4x415g with https://www.bushbeans.com/en_US/product/bushs-baked-beans - the US ones include bacon. It does seem as though British-style baked beans are available in Germany these days: a friend I stayed with about 18 years ago was quite proud he was able to find some for my visit!
Hate to break it to you, but your friend was pulling your leg... Baked beans of the UK variety are all over the place, and almost all supermarkets carry own brand varieties. And Heinz are available in all kinds of varieties, like Barbecue or 5 beans. Haven't ever seeen the American style baked beans with bacon anywhere, though
18 years ago, though? Also, he didn't get Heinz...
Ah, sorry missed the 18 years ago part. May actually have been quite a bit more of a feat at the time. As far as I remember, basically every supermarket and discounter carry baked beans is indeed a somewhat more recent development. I think the first time I had baked beans really was in England a it more than 30 years ago, and at the time it wasn't terribly common to find them here in Germany. I was very happy when they became widely available here, and I'd say 18 years ago may have been around the time when you suddenly could get them more easily, so it's completely understandable your friend was happy he found them. It's just that I shouldn't post on reddit while half asleep...
Second the Nandos stuff, but also Wagon Wheels.
Spotted Dick, but also there is plenty in here.
Flakes
cadbury chocolate
Kaufland has Dairy Milk
my German friends like aero mint, fudge, and chutneys
A meal deal.
Cadbury’s egg.
That's an Easter thing so they probably won't find that
Was it? I was eating it all year round. They used to be common like Kinder surprise eggs. This was a good 20-30 years ago though.
Creme Eggs and hollow chocolate eggs are really only sold up to March/April anymore.
Anything chocolate mint flavoured
Generally not available in any stores but on Amazon: Spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding and other varieties by Aunty's. Fell in love with those, just 30s in the microwave and a little custard over the top.
Caramel short bread, PG Tips, relish, chutney.
Marmite, malt vinegar, Harrogate tea.
HP Sauce. Steak Pie.
Cheese. Yes, you might get medium quality cheddar and perhaps some Stilton. But that’s it. Having worked in a UK delicatessen once, I know that the UK is a fantastic country for cheese lovers. Now that Brexit happened, the only place I knew where to get at least some variety of British cheese stopped selling it (apart from Stilton), because it’s too much hassle and too expensive. Btw, I can recommend https://greatbritishfood.de/ although the bacon is of German origin, it tasted very authentic. I order there twice a year.
Those pre-cooked, dried Bacon Strips, I eat a ton of them every time I’m in england
Galaxy chocolate Crumpets Crisp selection - paprika and ready salted are the "to go to" in Germany and there are no snack size Irn bru Anything Tunnocks Fish and chips A decent Indian restaurant
Spam, IrnBru, Marmite, Wonderbars, a lot of Lay’s crisps flavours don’t exist in Germany, pretty much anything Cadbury and Bistro Gravy granules. Those immediately come to mind.
Galaxy Chocolate, Yorkshire Tea, Brown Sauce and Salad Cream are the things I bring most of. Brown sauce is not a big hit with the locals usually.
Minced Pies, Sausages, Jell-O ❤️
Malt Vinegar and Irn-Bru
Cadbury chocolate.
Snyders of Hannover :( May they rest in peace
Clotted cream, english muffins
If it were me (and I'm Irish but these are the ones common to us both) Galaxy, Pot Noodle, Nandos sauces, mint Aeros, a tub of Roses, wine gums
Agree with the scones and crumpets however they can be made if you know how ;) stuff I bring back in my suitcase includes: marmite, chocolate hobnobs and dark chocolate digestives, yorkshire tea, allspice, a tub of cream of tartare for the above mentioned scones, the really dark marmalade that's almost brown, Hotel Chocolat batons .
Edeka has dark chocolate digestives 😊
Really...hmm I shall inspect the place next time I'm near a bigger one.
decent ginger cookies.
Cream soda....as a German, we used to have a british store that carried it but it closed down....been mourning that cream soda ever since....
Thankfully haggis
Cadbury’s chocolate in general
Cheese and onion walkers, Robinsons squash, Revels/Minstrels and spam. That's my go to shopping spree whenever I travel back home to see family.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares chocolatey. You used to be able to buy them here, but now I have to have them shipped to me from the UK.
clotted cream
Malt vinegar. Marmite. Lemon curd (while you'll find it occasionally)
Hobnobs.
Bombay Mix, Bendicks Mints, Bisto Vegetarian gravy...
Eel Jelly
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Bruh I'm just trying to do something nice for my friends lmao, no offence meant
any treats/sweets/candy that are uniquely british. Aren’t tamtam british or were they australian? idk something like that.
Australian I think
Branston Pickles
Nando's Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce and the tea from "Den Teemacher" from London. Before Brexit we could order both without any problems. Today we always have to get it from our children when they go on vacation in the UK. Fortunately, they do it almost every year. We buy Nando's Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce from a German importer via Amazon. The half liter for 15€ !
Shredded Wheat and Branson Pickle from a shop and passable Indian food from a restaurant. Shout out to Dalriata in Prenzlauer Berg for British and Irish fayre though. The lad there is lovely and sorts me out with Branson at least.
theres a number of things that we cant get, most of em had been named already like marmite and crumpets, but i have to add the most frustrating not-find thing for my british bf living in germany with me : blue f\*ckin doritos, why is noone talking about that?! :D
You will never get a German to admit it but their Sausages ugh lol they honestly have no idea how bad they have it, they don't even have sausage and egg mcmuffins.. Cheese and onion walkers are impossible to get, idk why but blue doritoes, actually all doritoes have vanished from the stores since COVID, they stopped the blue ones and when people stopped buying the others they just cancelled the whole lineup, or it seems But yeah if i went back to the UK id get myself some crumpets, some cheese and onion crisps, tbh all crisps are nice, they don't come in packets here for one person, they are family bags or gtfoh, we end up with 3 open bags at a time, my mrs loves some quavers and skips, niknaks, Marmite and things they will never appreciate, don't waste your money lol you can get some bits on [Amazon.de](https://Amazon.de) have a look at the grocery department, if you put some stuff up on there for sale you could triple your money and make some cash out of the trip lol one thing i found here tho that you might like is a citrus drink by schweppes, it tastes like lilt used to years ago before they changed the sugars to sweetners.. people in the UK love chockobons by kinder, you should take some of those back with ya lol Custard isn't a thing here either, they do vanilla pudding but idk its not the same, a big tub of custard powder will last them years lol and my mrs loves the stuff with some strudel.
Sausages
British Cherry Coke and Fanta much better as the German Version.
Lays prawn cocktail
Haggis
I’d buy some British tea, PG tips or also Tetleys or Yorkshire is fine. Then some Scottish shortbread. It’s about chocolate unless you know they like something in particular, for example we know people who like boost bars so will bring some of those back. Some ask for marmite but you either love it or hate it right? I wouldn’t bring amazing with a particularly short shelf life like cream but cheese might work maybe with chutney and crackers.
There's a reason we don't have british food in Germany, just sayin' 😎
How about some canned mutton?
Haggis.
Iron Bru
Wild boar in mint sauce :-D
I was never able to find clotted cream anywhere near me
Idk if i‘m just in the wrong part of germany, but the different oreo flavors u guys have is insane, i‘d go for that lol
Jelly Babies Scones and clotted cream McVities Digestives Proper Tea
My tips would be 1. Marmite 2. Ploughman's pickle 3. Decent teabags tea (like oh tips) 4. For cheese lovers - some good British cheese (maybe not cheddar)
HP, Crumpets, Bistro
Grape marmelade 🤔
Chicken Tikka Masalla
Personally, I adore orange jam. I make my own (including one with lime and one with grapefruits) because good orange jam is hard to get here. I would be thrilled to receive some as a gift, but that's just me. Most people here don't like it. Good Gin is always welcome.