A friend of mine has emigrated and misses a good 'full english' breakfast. We want to send him a cooked one in a jiffy bag as a joke.
2007-08-08 01:31:54 · 9 answers · asked by Fiona R 1 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
A "full English breakfast" includes bacon and sausages. England has an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease at the moment and you are thinking of sending meat from a country with Foot and Mouth disease to a country that has never had it? Australia does not have many of the agricultural diseases found in other parts of the world and is vigilant in keeping it that way. The penalties for attempting to bring in banned foodstuffs are harsh indeed.
You can check what you can and cannot import to Australia here: http://www.australia.gov.au/231
You can get a "full English breakfast" anywhere in Australia and all the ingredients are here to make your own. Your friend hasn't looked very hard.
2007-08-08 10:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a joke, go with the kids items glued to a plate.
As a non-joke, something sent cooked breakfast-wise would be a disgusting mess when it turned up in Australia 3 days later. I doubt that your UK people would accept it in the first place, and I am certain that quarantine over here would reject it out of hand.
Your friend must be intellectually challenged not to be able to either make or buy a "full English breakfast" in just about any country in the world.
I will say that decent black pudding is about the only ingredient that I can't locate in Australia (but then I do live in WA). However, there are only certain ones that I will class as "good" when I am in the UK.
2007-08-10 11:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by Billybean 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that would definately be confiscated so dont bother! Try sending a plastic kids version or something instead :P
Trust me customs confiscate anything homemade and not prepackaged and even a lot that is.
Some of the stuff that gets confiscated from my overseas parcels even is sold in rare speciality stores here but my friends from overseas cant post it to me because it has dried egg in it. Go figure!
You might have to find something else to send.
2007-08-08 02:00:20 · answer #3 · answered by firefly_bethy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even as a joke what a daft idea! They would definitely intercept it not to mention the condition it would arrive in!
A much better idea would be to get a paper plate (white) and draw on the full English breakfast as a joke or you may well find a rubber one from a kids shop?
I would definitely NOT send the real thing in the post!
2007-08-08 03:36:11 · answer #4 · answered by laplandfan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Customs will intercept. I did a stint in Oz a decade ago and my parents always used send me Indian snacks. The packages were always opened by Customs.
2007-08-08 01:58:45 · answer #5 · answered by Penfold 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK at the present time, I'm absolutely certain Customs would intercept the package.
By the way, we do have Full English Breakfasts here you know. We have a Full English at our house every Sunday morning.
2007-08-08 15:58:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Australian Quarantine rules seem to be the harshest in the world. Generally, food is not allowed. But certain food items may pass depending on the ingredients, and how this was packed.
If I were you, I will try. It will not be an offence since you are declaring it (it is only an offence when food is brought in undeclared). If it passes, well and good. If it doesn't then at least you know, and you are not even penalized for it.
2007-08-08 14:47:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This would not make it through customs and there are plenty of places where you can get a full English in Oz anyway. He could even cook his own as all ingredients are available. Alternatively he can wait till he comes back on holiday and he will appreciate it more. However you can send chocolate as it is not as good in Oz as in UK. I regularly send my friend chocolate and, although customs usually open it, it gets through ok.
2007-08-08 01:41:06 · answer #8 · answered by sandydesert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is highly likely customs would intercept that and destroy it.
You can send some packaged foods in the mail - i.e. tinned foods, packaged buscuits etc.
Being and island nation Australia has probably the strictest customs laws in the world.
2007-08-08 01:37:41 · answer #9 · answered by miss jane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can send the bread from the post office. Just be sure it is in a air tight container and then in a box wrapped in packing tape. They will label it perishable. Send me some too! I have not had good banana bread in such a long time. Yummy!
2016-03-13 10:28:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋