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Old 21-09-2011, 15:35
Andy Birkenhead
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Is there anywhere in the UK I can get American sweets from and not pay a fortune for them ?
We have a shopping precinct where I live called "The Pyramids". Recently a small stall has opened selling Buttterfingers, Milk Duds, Lucky Charms cereal etc, but they charge £1.50 for something the size of a Mars bar, and SEVEN QUID for Lucky Charms - and the box is not even the size of a box of Shreddies !
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Old 21-09-2011, 15:36
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Ebay they are a little cheaper
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Old 22-09-2011, 12:24
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Try CyberCandy online or stores in London
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Old 22-09-2011, 13:10
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Is there anywhere in the UK I can get American sweets from and not pay a fortune for them ?
We have a shopping precinct where I live called "The Pyramids". Recently a small stall has opened selling Buttterfingers, Milk Duds, Lucky Charms cereal etc, but they charge £1.50 for something the size of a Mars bar, and SEVEN QUID for Lucky Charms - and the box is not even the size of a box of Shreddies !
Anything that isn't sold by the producer over here will be imported at huge cost so I doubt you're going to get much cheaper.
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Old 22-09-2011, 16:58
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You can get anything made by Hershey's cheap enough over here,

Reeses Pieces, Hesheys Bliss etc there is quite a list.
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Old 26-09-2011, 14:56
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You can get anything made by Hershey's cheap enough over here,

Reeses Pieces, Hesheys Bliss etc there is quite a list.
have you tried Cyber Candy? They have a few stores around the UK and a couple in London.

http://www.gobblemonkey.com/2011/07/...ber-candy.html
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Old 26-09-2011, 19:47
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Those Cyber Candy shops look great, if only they weren't so horrifically expensive.
If they were the price of a Mars Bar etc, I'm sure they will sell out in no time !
I mean, £1.50 for something the size of a Snicker bar !!
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Old 26-09-2011, 20:41
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Those Cyber Candy shops look great, if only they weren't so horrifically expensive.
If they were the price of a Mars Bar etc, I'm sure they will sell out in no time !
I mean, £1.50 for something the size of a Snicker bar !!
i'd rather pay that than £8.99 for something here:

http://www.gobblemonkey.com/2011/07/...o-m-world.html
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Old 26-09-2011, 20:45
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You can get anything made by Hershey's cheap enough over here,
Although avoid the chocolate as it tastes like it's already been passed through a person.

Cheapest way to get US sweets is to get someone in the US to send you it directly. I used to do a "sweet swap" with a contact a couple of times a year. Postage costs have unfortunately increased a great deal in the last few years though, making it too expensive.
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Old 26-09-2011, 21:37
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I did a sweet swap with an American lady £30 worth of goodies sent - postage was £30 too :-O Got a lovely haul back though

Amazon (the UK site) sell a lot of the American goodies - cheaper than a lot of the shops, but certainly not cheap.
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Old 27-09-2011, 07:43
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Those Cyber Candy shops look great, if only they weren't so horrifically expensive.
If they were the price of a Mars Bar etc, I'm sure they will sell out in no time !
I mean, £1.50 for something the size of a Snicker bar !!
It's all imported, what price do you expect them to be able to do it for?
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Old 28-09-2011, 20:59
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Yep you can can get Hersheys Chocolate bars and Kisses in Asda and I've seen Reeces Pieces and Peanut butter cups in Sainsbury and Morrisons. Top Shop even sell small bars of the cookies and cream flavour Hesheys. I've seen Mike and Ikes around too. And my local garden centre sells stay puft marshmallows (I like to make smores).

I love American chocolate and sweets. I worked in the states for 6 months and got all my chocolate, sweets and coke for free through my employer - I came back a stone heavier

I love Raisinettes and Musketeer bars (taste like Milky Way used to in the UK) Not seen them over here though.

I've used this company before http://www.americansweets.co.uk/
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Old 29-09-2011, 21:12
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We lived in the Caribbean for a time, and it used to be possible to go down to an office at the docks and place an order of say a crate of fruit and arrange delivery to your rellies in the UK, straight to their door.

So I was wondering about import, and if some American brands are manufactured under license within the EU. Then you could import from there presumably duty-free. Not just American brands, it looks like I could import Mars Bars from Poland, where they're made:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-tp/11..._Bar_47_g.html

But I couldn't eat a minimum order without help .

Unfortunately the whole thing is not for amateurs. I'd need to make a large upfront payment, I'd need storage, and either several thousand friends to buy them off me one at a time or a retail outlet, expensive in the UK, or a website, potentially expensive, also I'd need plenty of time, a large family, or some staff to deal with orders, postage costs, the headache of courier unreliability etc.

Supermarkets are much more efficient animals when it comes to stuff like this. Better than corner shops, import boutiques, and DIY.

The best thing is probably to give tesco, asda or whoever the idea that American stuff is popular and they'll import more of it.
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Old 30-09-2011, 00:40
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Andy, there's a large fronted pound shop in Liverpool where I used to buy american sweets very cheaply, a pound in fact! If you walk round the corner from the Playhouse as if you were going towards the Royal Court, it's up a flight of steps on the first floor of St. Johns Precinct, just opposite the zebra crossing for the bus lanes. They had a wide selection of candies there, but I haven't been for over 12 months now. Anyway, worth a look in if you're passing. As you know, you can buy so called American Hard Gums in lots of sweet shops and there's those little multi-flavoured jelly beans as well, although they are outrageously expensive.
There's that fancy sweet shop near the bottom of Bold Street as well, you could try them. I've never seen so many different types of sweets and candies in one shop.
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Old 30-09-2011, 01:42
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Yep you can can get Hersheys Chocolate bars and Kisses in Asda and I've seen Reeces Pieces and Peanut butter cups in Sainsbury and Morrisons. Top Shop even sell small bars of the cookies and cream flavour Hesheys. I've seen Mike and Ikes around too. And my local garden centre sells stay puft marshmallows (I like to make smores).

I love American chocolate and sweets. I worked in the states for 6 months and got all my chocolate, sweets and coke for free through my employer - I came back a stone heavier

I love Raisinettes and Musketeer bars (taste like Milky Way used to in the UK) Not seen them over here though.

I've used this company before http://www.americansweets.co.uk/
All the stuff in your first paragraph is the UK version of the product rather than the American version.
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Old 01-10-2011, 00:15
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i'd rather pay that than £8.99 for something here:

http://www.gobblemonkey.com/2011/07/...o-m-world.html
BRITISH CANDY IS BETTER ANYWAY!!!
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Old 01-10-2011, 08:12
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Sugacane have branches in Liverpool, Southport and Manchester - and probably Chester
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Old 01-10-2011, 10:07
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BRITISH CANDY IS BETTER ANYWAY!!!
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Old 23-02-2012, 14:15
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Is there anywhere in the UK I can get American sweets from and not pay a fortune for them ?
We have a shopping precinct where I live called "The Pyramids". Recently a small stall has opened selling Buttterfingers, Milk Duds, Lucky Charms cereal etc, but they charge £1.50 for something the size of a Mars bar, and SEVEN QUID for Lucky Charms - and the box is not even the size of a box of Shreddies !
If your still interested in American sweets this site has a good choice http://www.retro-sweets-shop.co.uk/a...an-sweets.html
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Old 23-02-2012, 17:12
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Old 23-02-2012, 19:50
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I just bought a £35 order from CyberCandy and I got the below;

Blue cream soda
Root Beer Dad’s
Cookie Dough Bites
Giant Tootsie Roll
Pop Tarts
KitKat Chunkie – Cookies & Cream
Peppermint Crisp
Pretzel M&M’s
Hershey’s Mr Goodbar
Hershey’s Rainbow Twizzlers
Hershey’s Watchamacallit
Nestle Baby Ruth
Jolly Rancher – Assorted Blister Pack
Jolly Rancher – Tropical Blends
Reeses Big Cup
Reeses Pieces
Reeses Nutrageous
Wonka Scrumdiddlyumptious Bar
Wonka Nerds
Giant Carnival Pop
Bubblegum Poprocks
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Old 24-02-2012, 12:05
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All the stuff in your first paragraph is the UK version of the product rather than the American version.
I thought the Hershey's here came from Canada? I must admit I do like the Reese's Nutrageous bar
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