Once again, I need some help. I want to send some candy or snacks, something easily wrapped and shipped, to a friend in the UK. Is there any American candy or snacks that are difficult or impossible to find at home that you really like? I want to send something indicative of my country’s taste in packaged consumer food, but I’d rather not completely disgust my friend with pork rinds and EZ-Cheez. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Er, I wouldn’t send candy (just my opinion, I think most American candy is foul - in fact my family in the States ask us to post them British candy. I can’t think of anything off the top of my head right now - its 11:35pm ish over here, and I’ve been baking chocolate chip cookies all day, and I need sleep. 
I will post again if anything comes to mind.
Actualy, and this is where I make my exception to the general rule about American candy - Reeses’ Butter Cups (I think that’s what they are) are absolutely lovely.
Just my opinion.
This aussie can not get enough poprocks. I imagine Brits could be converted too.
I agree. I think the Reese’s things are Peanut Butter Cups, aren’t they?
Although I now live in the US, the main candy I get is that available in the UK. Maybe I’m just being a stuffy ex-pat and there is some out-of-this-world US candy available if only I looked for it. I wouldn’t say that US candy is not nice - I’ve just not come across anything that made me think “hey, I wish we had that in the UK”.
Could you send me a few pounds of green Starburst (aka Opal Fruits) from the UK? Over here, green = apple. Yuk.
Pocky, if you can get good pocky.
If someone back in the UK could e-mail me some Green and Black’s Aztec Gold, I’d be really grateful.
Oh, man. Turns out American food really is as embarassingly bad as I’d feared. I’m already sending some Pocky. (thanks, Tansu) But it’s not American. Damn. This is so much harder than I thought. I’ve been looking around online to see what’s available in different parts of the world, and it seems like either everyone already gets bombarded with crappy American snack food, or they’d be completely disgusted by anything I could send.
But I’m definitely going to send some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Good idea. Thanks so much for all the suggestions, everyone.
Surely Pocky’s Japanese, not American?
They’ve changed the UK Starbursts (Opal Fruits goddamnit!) Green and yellow have merged into a horrible citrus-type mess to make way for a (vile) blackcurrant flavour.
Perhaps everyone is already aware of this but it only came to my attention a fortnight ago and I was genuinely disgruntled by the whole affair.
On the candy topic - not exactly candy, (or particularily American for that matter) but I’d have a lot of love for someone who would send Lucky Charms over this way.
We’ve been getting a lot more gimmicky cereals recently, but they still haven’t brought back my beloved Lucky Charms.
I noticed your location is Atlanta - I no longer live there, but when I did, I noticed a (fairly) large assortment of non-US candies at World Market (I think that’s the name). I believe there are several locations around Atlanta, but the one I always went to was on Ashford-Dunwoody, in the shopping center with the Wal-Mart, in the Dunwoody area.
Just in case you have trouble locating stuff, that may be a place to try.
My fellow UK Dopers will probably want to take me down an alleyway and give me a good kicking for saying this, but I LOVE Hershey bars. Cadbury’s chocolate is the foulest stuff on the planet IMHO, and I’d give anything to get my teeth around a big hunk o’ Hershey’s goodness right now.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are absolutely gorgeous as well. You can just taste all the fat and sugar crammed into every single one… mmmmmmm! And that’s coming from someone who detests peanut butter in the usual from-a-jar form.
Not candy, but still another favourite of mine: Gatorade. It made an appearance here very recently in Sainsbury’s supermarkets, but now seems to have disappeared again. Bugger :(.
What are you? A mutant?
[sub]American peanut putter has more sugar in it.[/sub]
Oh, I forgot: 
Pocky is in fact sold in the UK…at least it was in the little Asian grocery store I used to go to in Oxford, the one next to the Thai restaurant and across from The Antiquities pub.
all i can say is if you live in the UK, you best be thankful for cadbury’s crunchies…cause they’re f*cking GREAT and i cant buy them in the US, so when my uncle returns to ireland (about every year), he buys them. pointless post, but its true. Crunchie’s are the greatest candy in the world.
Cinnamon candy is completely unavailable here, so send Hot Tamales and throw in some root beer barrells while you’re at it. Other easy stuffs to send could include Teriyaki-flavour beef jerky, Kool Aid, white gravy mix, Butterfinger bars, Fritos (cornchip of the gods), Dried Onion soupmix…
Woolworths now sells Reeces products of all descriptions in the UK if anyone’s interested, including the cups.
If you want Fritos, you may want to pick up some Lipton onion soup mix and some sour cream for dip.
Ratty, I don’t know if you can find these easily in Pennsy but you could send Almond Roca. Little logs of almond butter brickle covered in chocolate and almond bits. And it comes in a funky pink tin to keep these little nuggets of goodness from getting crushed on their journey. In short, what is there not to like?
Other goodies would include Andes mints (so smooth, so minty) and Heyday bars, the candy disguised as a cookie (caramel, cookie and chocolate but better than a Twix). Again, what is there not to like?
You might throw in a bag or two of Apple Chips, too. So sweet yet so healthy…I think. How about some Gummi Worms or Swedish Fish?
Oh! I know! Moon pies! How American are those? Or those little pecan pies? Mmmmmm!
Why is it I have the munchies now? Darn this thread. LOL!
That is true - no cinnamon in the UK. I don’t get the impression that cinnamon candy is very popular in the US either. We put a bowl of mixed candy in reception at work. Then, after a couple of weeks, everything except the cinnamon ones have been eaten so we throw those away and start again.
On a slightly related note, some of us actually prefer apple dishes without cinnamon, yet it is very hard to find them here.
[slight hi-jack]
On the flip side, I am from Scotland and now live in Canada, and one of the candies that I love that’s from Britain and not available in Canada are “Sport Mixtures”.
sigh
[/slight hi-jack]