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I'm looking to send a thank you gift to someone in the US; I was hoping to choose some very nice Swiss Chocolate for this, rather than the Toblerone cliche.
Anyone know where I can order something like this for delivery to the US?
But you can also just make your own package with your favorites and send it to them.
amazon.com delivers Teuscher truffles. Ain't that wonderful!
BUT: How grateful are you, how big should this thank-you present be?
It's $ 168.00 for 16 pieces.
I think I'll start flying them over once a week - directly from Teuscher Zurich. Make a fortune.
Sorry, that didn't help. But sending chocolate around the world is not really a good idea anyway
Victorinox knife instead?
To be honest if you want to send chocolat now, in that weather you will have to go with a professional Service. This won't come cheap tough. If you send it yourself with regular mail now it will melt.
Oops, I just saw that Omtatsat has already linked this. Great minds, and all that.
This, this, and this.
Been there, done that - and the recipient ended up with chocolate soup.
Nowadays when I need to give a 'Swiss' gift, I often go with these:
https://www.panoramaknife.ch/en/
(I buy from Elsner Messerschmeid in Rapperswil.)
The knife edges are the outline of one of the Swiss mountain ranges. Makes for a fun gift; when possible I choose one that the recipient has hiked when visiting me here.
Shipping to the US will cost 60 Euro. (For shipment out of Switzerland you have to order from the international site.) You might do better to buy here from a local retailer and ship it yourself.
But at least steel and wood won't melt.
But if OP wants to buy there, they should look for Messerschmied
You can buy guns there?
Now how about sending an American a Swiss colt. LOL.
It's pretty pointless - unless your shipment is very large and from Sprüngli or Teuscher, where you might actually break even.
On top of that, there's no guarantee that customs won't open the box and ruin the goods - because who in his right mind would send some chocolates over the atlantic for a small fortune unless it was more than chocolate inside.
Don't know where your friends live but maybe you could get them a voucher and have them experience the shop (might be a café in those places too).
The words Sprüngli and Russell Stover in the same sentence? Stop the world, I want to get off.
(One might say that Russell Stover is to Swiss chocolate as 'Swiss Cheese' is to Emmentaler.)
They do say somewhere on the site that they keep the brands separate
Never heard of Russel Stover - you sound like I didn't miss anything.
(But I do feel a sudden pull towards the Sprüngli shop in town )
if someone was sending me chocolate i'd be more happy if they just went in to migros or somewhere and sent me a collection of different bars.
lindt might be available in virtually all countries but usually it's no where near the same selection size you see in switzerland.
Of course it isn't worth it.
And if you don't use expedited shipping, it's no longer "fresh".
That's the great thing about chocolates from Läderach, Sprüngli, Teuscher: that taste of "fresh" chocolate, with all the aroma still in.
It can only be had here (or anywhere where they're conching chocolate, but this being a very small country, there's probably not a large amount of inventory building up, adding to the freshness).
It's probably a bit like exotic fruit. Sure, you can have pineapples and mango etc. flown in - but they'll never be as good as consumed fresh and ripe in their countries of origin.
So, for fresh chocolate, people will just have to come here.
It's not the worst excuse to visit, IMO ;-)
They have distributors all over the country. The name of their company is Karlen Swiss. I have sent two of my daughters this bookbag and they LOVE them. Much better than chocolate.