What Irish food could I send my friends in the states?

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xalynn

Having sent some care packages abroad, try the following (on top of what you're planning on sending):
- Taytos (it'll be fine, maybe a bit squashed at most, don't worry)
- brown bread (e.g. McCambridge wholewheat brown bread)
- Butlers chocolates/fudge (esp the Bailey's or Irish coffee ones)
- Ballymaloe relish in a plastic tub, not glass jar
- a box of tea bags e.g. Lyons, Barry's

As long as nothing is homemade and self-packed, and all the items come in the packaging as it would in the shop, they should be fine. Afterall most of these good are being exported worldwide in the same packaging.

The key to packing is a good mailing box (buy one from stationery shop) and bubble wraps. Line the box with bubble wrap before you start filling it with the food items that you're sending. Line the top with bubble wrap too after you've filled the box. If there are space for things to move around, fill the gaps with more bubble wrap or newspaper.

And oh, be aware re the total weight. If you're sending more than 2kg, then it will not qualify as small packet even if your box size meets the requirement. It'll instead be categorised as parcel and the postal rate increases significantly. Same goes, if your items are not too heavy but you use a box that's over the dimension specified for a packet, it'll be categorised as parcel.

Another note is re the weight. If you have a packet over 1kg but less than 2kg, try to fill it up to near 2kg if you could. That's because the postal rate is the same for both scenario, so why lose out? On the other hand, if you have just over 2kg, you may want to take out a bar or two of chocolate to keep it under 2kg in order to qualify as a packet, because a packet just under 2kg costs 20.95 for registered post but 40.00 for registered post for parcel under 2.5kg. The chocolate certainly costs way less that if you really want to send those chocolate, buy a padded envelope and send them separately. They won't be nearly 20.00 euro, that's for sure.

I include here some information including postal rate sheets for your reference.
Standard rate: http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/PostalRates/Standard+Post.htm
Registered post: http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/PostalRates/Registered+Post.htm
Checking dimension: http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/WhatAreYouSending.htm

celeste28

I missed kimberly mikado and coconut cream biscuits when i was away. Plus the great taytos and also kiddy sweets like klipso bars and fruit salads and black jacks and macaroon bars - but im not sure if you can send that kind of stuff tru the post. One thing that my friend did was she sent me the receipe for soda bread and curranty bread which i made all the time. I wouldnt like to be back there again. I hope i never again have "to take the boat" in search of work but the way things are now - you never know!!!!!

Shauna

How about this ..... Pat the Baker produced special batches of its barmbrack - an Irish fruit bread - and renamed it BarrackBrack.

agooddub

For the record DAIRY MILK bars 20grm, 50grm,100grm. are all made in Cadbury's Dublin and have a very distinct flavour, compared to the bigger bars, which are made in Bournville Birmingham.
The unique, creamy taste is the result of using Irish milk in the chocolate crumb manufacture, which is all sourced from the dairy farms in the Kerry and Cork regions, renowned for it's lush green pasture lands, and produced in the Cadbury factory in Rathmore Co. Kerry.
The raw crumb is sent to Dublin where it is processed into unique Irish CDM bars, and only sold in the Irish Republic market.
The CDM which is bought in Ulster is English production and tastes different.

Sshhhh! It's Podge and Rodge

The Denny rashers, sausages and white puddings.

Put them inside a Pringles tube. The customs won't find them.

I Say, Old Chap!

They dairy milk will be fine, I send it over to Canada for relatives all the time, they go mad for it, just wrap it in bubble wrap and shove it in a large jiffy bag.

greenorlagh

Jaffa Cakes are so NOT English!! Invented by Jacobs

...why not send on some Mikado, kimberly's too? Coconut Creams?

Dairy Milk is pretty damn English tho.

Christine

Chocolate, the Chocolate in the states is not the best....to put it mildly

slipstreamer

The Jaffa cakes are a good start, throw in some more chocolates - yours are much better than the US ones, and maybe some Barry's tea. What about wine gums? Those are hard to find in the US.

Use lots of crumpled up paper (newspaper will do) for packing - as long as the items are similar in heft then nothing will get too crushed.

Too bad about the Taytos

Orla C

Excuse me, but Cadbury's in made in Ireland too.

You could always try the Lily O'Brien's Irish chocolates, or the Lir chocolates, those are lovely.

nolainkansas

Fill any extra space with tea bags.

blue_metwo

How about Calvita cheese or Easi Singles.

Bread

reginaldstower

Emerald Isle Produce - Irish Hampers, Food, Gifts, Music and Books ...
Unique Irish Hampers and Irish Gifts. ... Traditional old style thick cut from Galtee, a firm family favourite. ... sausages, with the superb Galtee taste.

Charles S

There are so many restrictions on what can and cannot be taken into the US and also what can and cannot be sent through the post that your choices are very limited. One thing that might be allowed is bread products. I'd suggest either a loaf of Irish Potato Bread or a loaf of Irish Soda Bread. Check with the US Embassy that you could send these to the US.

Ello Guv

Jaffa Cakes and Dairy Milk are English, your always stealing our culture ; )

edit - True, we also took Francis Bacon in exchange for Smokey Bacon crisps xx

GEARS

Irish beer

bing bam boom

make stew, put it in flask or air tight lunch tub

LEGALIZE PIT BULLS!NOW!

what about spuds or maybe what do we irish like hmmm what about beer

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