Eva got some maple candy to send to penpals in England and Australia

[conuly]

(We decided the penpal in Ontario probably doesn't need more maple in her life.)

...are you familiar with the idea that I tend to go overboard? Yeeeeeeah. So now I have a question, though ultimately this is all going to boil down to "the maple, grape, and root beer candies we've got sitting in our pantry" anyway: It's easy to find out what American candies you don't have in England and/or Australia. Are there any savory snacks that are lightweight and yummy that you don't have?

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[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

A thought. Savoury things that I don't find yummy, but others presumably do.
Is a "graham cracker" a savoury thing? I've heard of them as a recipe ingredient.
I seem to remember being offered little packs of dry cracker-like objects to go with soup or salad when eating out. I wouldn't call them yummy, more like tasteless crunchy cardboard, but we don't have them here. Saltines? Something like that? I may have the name wrong as they weren't at all salty.
I've heard mention of "kosher salt". I have no clue how this differs from normal salt, since its being ritually slaughtered seems unlikely.
On the supermarket shelves devoted to American things,  one can sometimes find packs of dried add-water-and-stir "mac and cheese" (not macaroni cheese, though Ihave yet to figure out the difference). The results seem to be bright orange.
Any packet sauce mixes that we'd find odd?

[conuly]

1. Graham crackers are usually pretty sweet. I think they're supposed to be similar to "digestive biscuits"?

2. Saltines are nobody's favorite snack, but I can at least get little packets for free at Nanen's chemo session. How about Ritz crackers?

3. Kosher salt has big crystals, and is not iodized. I asked once why it's called kosher - turns out, it's the salt you use to kasher meat, that is, to make it kosher by getting the blood out.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

We have Ritz crackers, and very nice too.

Another thought: we ate in Taco Bell once, to see what it was like (note "once"), and were presented with little plastic packets of sort of multi-coloured crunchy strips of something. Possibly strips of tortilla? I think they were meant to be put on salad. Again, I didn't find them yummy, but presumably someone does since they exist.

Bacon-related things? We have quite a variety over here but I think you may have more.