Cultural exchange

[liv]

One of the things I love about my job is that when you're helping people to redesign their teaching they ask you for advice about all kinds of random things. This one I think I need to crowdsource:

My colleague is running an exchange trip where she's taking some of her students to Washington DC along with some students from a Southern US state. She wants to take some small gifts / prizes for the American students.

So my question to American or American-knowledgeable friends is, if you were an American college student, what small, inexpensive, transportable item would you be excited to receive from English visitors? Are there any (snack) foods you think of as excitingly and exotically British?

And to my compatriots, what should my colleague take that will seem like a nice souvenir of England or the UK? Particularly, can you think of anything that is typical of Cambridge the town but isn't about Cambridge Uni?

Comments

[khronos_keeper]

Hmmm. I mean the obvious answer for a consumable is tea I guess? Jammie dodgers? But of course little mementos that are beloved by Brits but haven't hopped the pond would be nice. We have things like Keep Calm and Carry On signs, but I'm sure you have other little things that are everywhere but Americans just don't know about it because it's not well represented in media.

Maybe stickers? I don't know anyone of any age group that doesn't love stickers haha.

[liv]

I like the idea of jammie dodgers and Brit-tat related stickers. I'll pass those ideas on :-)