British peeps, what do you take back after returning from a visit home?

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1. Percy Pigs from M&S

2. Salt and Vinegar chips/crisps are highly sort after in my experience.

3. Deodorant, lemsip, tea bags, claritin.

   Used to bring back black pudding because technically it’s not meat, but not sure I’d get away with it tbh.

4. Nik Naks and Skips. Cadbury’s chocolate – the Cadbury’s sold in Japan is made in Australia and is not good.

   Baked beans.

5. Waxed cheese and OXO.

   It’s been a long time since I’ve been back in the UK, but always brought back cheese that was wrapped in wax. Also received care packages from the family in the past. (Unless rules have changed it used to be ok).

6. HP sauce, deodorant, stuffing, gravy, Branston pickle, medicine.

7. Custard, gravy powder. Instant Heinz soup powder. HP sauce. Potato farls. Yorkshire tea, azera instant coffee. Toffee crisps, maltesers, clotted cream fudge, galaxy bars.

8. Branston pickle. Incidentally, the brand is now owned by Mizkan, a Japanese company.

9. Lemsip, nurofen cold+flu, ibuprofen(like 12p a pack dirt cheap), jaffa cakes, twiglets, concentrated squash and sweetners. Sometimes some instant shepherd’s pie mix too.

10. Whittard, crunchie, lion bar, fruit pastels.

11. Nando’s hot sauce and crisps

12. Marmite (big costco tubs!), tea bags, crumpets.

13. I was in UK 2 months ago, the only thing I bought was tea

14. I usually stock up on stuff that I’ll want for Christmas, so things like gravy, mint sauce, onion/bread sauce, stuffing etc.

    Aside from that, I like to get some Yankee candles (I swear they used to be fairly easy to find in Japan in places like Donki but they just disappeared one day), Worcestershire Sauce, branston pickle, and a boatload of teabags (usually I take them out of their box and wrap them in a bag, to make it more space efficient).

15. tea bags, oxo cubes, gravy powder, pasta flavourings, Ribena, lemsip, painkillers, sauces (garlic mayo, reggae reggae), blue tack, and the list goes on!

16. I bring back battenberg cakes with the intenion of rationing it to enjoy once I get back, then once it’s out my suitcase I inhale about 4000 calories of sugar in one sitting. Crack in cake form.

17. Stress, mostly.

18. Crunchie bars, Coleman’s mustard, loads of supermarket clothing and bags for my daughter… every kind of sweet and biscuit I can fit in my bag.

19. bisto

20. Cheese. Chilli Heatwave Doritos. Spices and herbs that can be hard to find in JP.

21. Pick me up a few bags of licorice all-sorts please.

22. Jaffa cakes. As many as you can stuff into your suitcase.

23. Tunnocks tea cakes and caramel wafers, was risky during summer but they were alright after being in the fridge for a bit.

24. Bring me bisto. I’ll pay black market prices 😀

25. I’m not British but chocolates from the UK were a huge hit when I brought them back to Japan as gifts.

26. Licorice, sherbet flying saucers, Sherbet Fountains, Marmite, Bovril, Yorkshire Tea teabags, Twiglets, Cadbury’s Flake, and copies of Viz comic.

    EDIT: And shortbread and crumpets.

27. Bird’s custard powder

28. Deodorant!!!

29. M&S flapjacks

30. Mustard!! The stuff sold here doesn’t have the right punch. Yorkshire tea, Percy pigs and marmite

31. A plane

32. Cadbury’s chocolate. I love bounty bars and Japan has no coconut candy that I can find, so I go to a pound shop and buy a whole bunch of the four packs. Fruit pastels too! And frazzles oh frazzles!

33. pickled onion monster munch

    sarsons vinegar

    wispa, crunchie, twirl, flake, minstrels, maltesers

    I would say S&V crisps, actually it would be top of my list, but you can actually get these here. Shops near me sell S&V Lays (walkers), Tyrells and pringles. Maybe some S&V Mccoys would be good though – they are the top notch S&V option that I miss

34. Yorkshire tea bags.

35. Decaf coffee and tea, lime marmalade, salt n vinegar crisps, custard powder, Christmas pudding and SHREDDIES!

36. M&S Chicken Tika Masala.
    Real cheese – from a local farm