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The Puck

13:08 / 22.04.02

The american summer camp that will be employing me through the summer usally ask for there forign employers to bring with them "somthing from your own country, to show and tell"

easy peasy i thought, ill just thinly disguise a cry for information as a intresting topic on a internet bullitin board and steal the best idea.

So it has to be:

English
Intresting
Not able to get my arrested at the airport
Portable enough for me to carry round in my backpack afterwards

_pin

13:14 / 22.04.02

Haus

Ierne

13:16 / 22.04.02

How about one of those Ginster's meat pies? We don't have 'em here...

Glint: heh heh! Are we sure he won't get Puck arrested at the airport, though?

_pin

13:19 / 22.04.02

Obvisouly we'd have to remove his legs, but that's OK. I'm sure you can be acriebic without yr legs.

Saveloy

13:26 / 22.04.02

What... his legs would get you both arrested? Wow, some legs!

It's obvious, but how about a jar of Marmite?

_pin

13:29 / 22.04.02

No, because Marmite blows arse.

And the legs thing was about fitting in Pucks rucksack. But yeah, they'd probablly get you arrested, too.

The Puck

13:48 / 22.04.02

Id rather eat haus's legs than a drop of marmite, anyway i thought marmite was australian

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:49 / 22.04.02

No. Nothing that salty comes out of Australia. They have a law.

How about a copy of the Times?

Or a teletubbie?

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:56 / 22.04.02

Or Yorkshire Tea. Because it's fucking genius.

w1rebaby

13:57 / 22.04.02

a Slipknot hoodie. That seems typically english right now.

Ierne

13:57 / 22.04.02

I know! There's this HP canned product you folks have called The Full Monty – It's baked beans with saugages, weird circular bits of meat, mushrooms and a whole bunch of other stuff. We've got baked beans, we even have Pork 'n' Beans, but we definitely don't have that.

Saveloy

14:16 / 22.04.02

Duh, the inferior Australian version of Marmite is called Vegemite and it's SALTIER.

A hedgehog?

Bear

14:21 / 22.04.02

John Cleese?

Or how about one of those crappy Royal Family postcards, you can then go on to tell how the Royal Family is just made up to attract tourists. Like Mickey Mouse.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:23 / 22.04.02

Alas, Ierne, I suspect 'Full Monty' is a rather artificial representative. A home made 'spotted dick' might well be a good response, though. Especially with clotted cream. But these things are a bit quaint. Something a little more alive, perhaps - a Lotus Elise? A Paul Smith shirt? An oak?

ghadis

14:26 / 22.04.02

what's left of the Queen Mum stuck to the end of one of those crappy cheap metal detectors that were briefly popular during the late 70s

Kit-Cat Club

14:32 / 22.04.02

Fray Bentos pie. Kendal mint cake. Erm... selection of ghastly English sweets (see 'Mint Liquorice allsorts' thread). Bagpuss. These seem to me to encapsulate both furrin ideas of 'Englishness' and also dreadful English tendency towards nostalgia.

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:54 / 22.04.02

Saveloy: tis not. Inferior? Have at you, sah.

Saveloy

15:23 / 22.04.02

Sorry Rothkoid, but Vegemite is for effete softies and sickly babies. Marmite comes from beer. Beer!

Better suggestion: a really butch Red Squirrel, to be released into the wild to duff up the greys and get our own back.

sleazenation

15:27 / 22.04.02

well you could take a hunk of the elgin marbles but that has caused controversy in the past...

grant

15:28 / 22.04.02

A bottle of ginger beer.

or...

some of the lovely chocolate products of the Cadbury manufacturing concern. Some find their way here, but not... unchanged.

or...

genuine cheese. might be harder to get through customs, that one. But American children NEED TO KNOW.

or...

Branston Pickle.

or...

any album by a British indie band.

or...

a can of Milo mix.

or...

James Bond.

grant

15:29 / 22.04.02

Or a dried English rose...

or a stone from Salisbury Plain.

Ariadne

15:31 / 22.04.02

Piccalilly. Weirdly flavoured crisps. Bottles of bitter. The Sun. Tea. Marmalade. And yes, have a look at the Mint Allsorts thread for sweety ideas.

Kit-Cat Club

15:33 / 22.04.02

Actually cheese is a good one. My (young) cousins came over from Denver a couple of years ago and, on being given a piece of medium strength cheddar, said it 'tasted of mould'. So stilton should go down well (not sure what the sniffer dogs would make of it though).

Stick of rock?

Cherry Bomb

18:18 / 22.04.02

I vote for a nice Stilton.

Margin Walker

19:50 / 22.04.02

How about a box of crackers? Not "crisps", those Christmas exploding thingies w/ the baubles inside. Although I'm sure they'd be hard to find out of season....

The Puck

20:18 / 22.04.02

genius! a big bag of english sweets to pass round and thus endearing the children to me, god knows im not gonna win them over with TLC or freindlyness or somthing else equally unnatural.

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