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Tourist gifts

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  • 28-06-2005 7:23pm
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    luckat
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    I was recently in Japan, and wherever I went there were pretty tins with food gifts in them - rice crackers, biscuits, etc.

    When I was going home, I would have liked to send back the same kind of thing to my friends, but there seems to be nothing here. I could send them English biscuits, but when I gave them any gifts, they asked: "These are made in Ireland?" - so what's the point.

    Does anyone know of any nice tins of Irish biscuits, with pretty designs or pictures, not too huge - the kind of thing that Lady Godiva does in Belgium, say, or that you can get English-made from M&S?


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    #2
    luckat
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    So there's no such thing? No small gift that I can give that can be shared among the people in an office?


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    dahamsta
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    Bar of Dairy Milk and a packet of Tayto!

    (Although I guess maybe we shouldn't be supporting either of those brands any more. How about some crubeens and cabbage?)

    adam


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    parsi
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    Kimberly. Mikado & Coconut Cream ? A bag of Emeralds ? Some Oatfields boiled sweets ? Peggys Legs ...


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    amerden
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    Can you still get Peggys Legs, if so where ????


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    parsi
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    No idea really.. but I imagine some old small shop (there's one in Cork near the Raven bar) might have them... I was just getting carried away with memories of my youth...


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    commuterised
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    When I visit my US colleagues I always bring Butlers Irish Chocolates, they love em! and they're always tied up nicely with ribbons etc.


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    #8
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Nice suggestions, but none appropriate for my current needs. I'd love to send them chocolates (though I don't like Butler's any more - they used to be delicious, but either their recipe has changed or my taste buds have) - but chocolates sent to Japan would have melted by the time they were delivered.

    These people are kind of formal and middle-aged, and I want to thank them for a favour, so they'd think a jokey present was bad manners.

    It's so odd that there isn't anything (apparently) suitable. This must be a huge, huge market - think of it, corporate gifts, tourists, stuff for embassies to give out, thank-you presents.


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