Post-Brexit, can you bring chocolate as personal goods? I'm not sure if they count as a milk product. Wondering if the grandparents can bring the Easter eggs they bought.
We came back from Edinburgh last Thursday evening with a stash of Crunchies, Peppermint and Caramel Aeros, Fry's Turkish Delight, tubes of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles and Polo Mints. OH had 50 Tunnock's Teacakes in milk and plain, plus 12 boxes of Mrs Tilly's Scottish Tablet for his colleagues, also snap pots of Heinz Baked Beans for himself I couldn't find Toffee Crisp or Walnut Whips All of it went in a suitcase in the hold and it was well bubble wrapped and packed.
Fair do's, we took loads of nice Swiss choc bars back to Scotland for family and vegan choc for my great nephew.
I've been very restrained, I've only eaten a Peppermint Aero and I gave half to my OH to make me feel better about it lol
i also saw: "For consignments containing foodstuffs of animal origin that are sent to private individuals by letter or parcel post, the same rules apply by analogy as for consignments imported by private travellers."
does this mean that B2C shipments shouldn't be problematic? there was so much noise about shipment problems to europe post-brexit so wondered if that was all B2B related or if the problems were mainly due to restricted items (e.g. meat, cheese).
Wow, Cherub, that's an impressive haul. But aren't you making yourself a little vulnerable to EFers climbing your walls to break in and pilfer your stash?
I tried to find out. It looks like it's an EU law rather than a specifically Swiss one.
I bet it was slipped into the import document as a joke by a bored Brussels bureaucrat on a Friday afternoon as it's covered in another part of the list.
They are permitted without restriction.... not excluded... they are also permitted on the UK and EU sites, provided that there is 20% or less fish. Why everyone feels the need to specifically mention them I don't know.
The Cadbury's dairy milk of my youth no longer exists. It used to be a delectable, crumbly, melt in the mouth treat with the slogan 'A glass and a half of milk in every bar'. Now its just a palm oil infused mess with an unpleasant after taste. Mondelez have destroyed a classic in the name of profits.
Most British chocolates are now supermarket aisle multipack rubbish with questionable economics e.g. 99p for a 4 pack or 80p each at the checkout
"Most British chocolates are now supermarket aisle multipack rubbish with questionable economics e.g. 99p for a 4 pack or 80p each at the checkout"
Yep, but sometimes you just miss a taste of the sweeties you had in your youth. I agree what you say about Dairy Milk though, it's vile, sickly and oily tasting. I was taken aback when I went to a Swiss person's house for a BBQ and the lady of the house put a box of Milk Tray on the table