Which Supermarket?

[neilandkay]

quote:Originally posted by MTP

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Has squash, marmite, baked beans (at an extortionate price so take your own if someone in the family insists on them!),

Aren't you banned from taking any foodstuffs into the US, we have been asked about baby food when travelling with babies. We did have some and we got through, just denying all knowledge, but I think they are fairly strict on this stuff.

You can't bring in meat or fruit products. Biscuits, sweets, marmite, teabags are usually OK. We normally have tons of stuff in our bags and we declare it. Canned meats are not OK, I have some German friends who had their canned Bratwurst confiscated.

One time we arrived back in the US and I realised that we had jars of babyfood with meat and also del monte fruit packs. I was worried about it and asked a customs official in the airport and he said it was OK so I didn't have to dispose of them. (However some officials can interpret the rules differently so another official may have said I needed to dispose of them)

-Kay

[Carla]

One customs guy just threw away 4 of my small tins of pasta shapes with mini sausages in!! I had bought 10 kiddy pasta tins for my MC's little girls, 'cos she can't get them in FL (at least not for 21 pence per can). I had just gone along the shelves of the supermarket picking two of each type, assuming that they were just different characters!! I didn't even realise that 4 of them had sausages in them, until the customs guy picked them out and said "No meat!!" and without any further ado put them into the big trash can.

Perhaps that's why I get searched every time I go into USA. Maybe somewhere on my notes I am down as a "meat smuggler".