Tourists of Reddit were asked: "What kinds of souvenirs are popular to take back home when you visit the United States?" These are some of the best answers.
2/36 I have a Hillary Clinton nutcracker my parents brought me when they went in 2008. She's about the size of an action man, but if you put a nut between her legs and squeeze them together she cracks it.
nunmaster
3/36 I will smuggle as many packs of Nutter Butters I can carry.
SoyHeff
4/36 One of my best friends brought a 48-pack of red solo cups back to France with her three summers ago- last fall when she sent me a photo of her uni apartment, what was sitting on her bedside table? One of those damn cups. She was OBSESSED.
softly_yeets
5/36 Hot Cheetos! I do not understand why they don't sell 'em in Europe :/
Nahoj-N
6/36 My exchange students always want me to ship them "just add water" food mixed. Brownies, stove top stuffing, etc.
SunshineSexWorker
7/36 I lived in a country without a Victoria's Secret. It was like a huge deal for any woman to own VS.
YouCallThatAUsername
8/36 My British relatives used to bring back Folger's because our [crap] coffee is way better than their coffee which is [crap].
YourCannibalQueen
9/36 Jack Daniel etc. - Especially some neat hard liquor from Tennessee or Kentucky is highly valued. We have a saying back in India which goes something like this - "When India to US, bring cigarettes, When US to India, bring the JD, ya !!"
IndianPhDStudent
10/36 Nyquil. I was in the US earlier this year and come down with a pretty horrendous cough and someone recommended this magical nectar of the gods. It seems to work on the basis that you can't cough if you are in a coma!
After years of using crappy UK cough medicine that simply does nothing beyond slightly soothing your throat on its way past, this stuff was a god send. It is pretty much the equivalent of Night Nurse before they took all the good stuff out of it.
TheAffinityBridge
11/36 Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It costs $30 to ship a large box to my home in Western Australia. A box lasts maybe 1 week between me and my dude.
poopsiegirl
12/36 Some good BBQ sauce from the south/Tennessee.
StayPositive101
13/36 It was November of 2008, Obama just won, so I came home with a [ton] of street-bought Obama shirts.
Dooshbaguette
14/36 I always bring home chocolate bars, candy and liquor we can't get here. I'd do jail time for a what-cha-ma-call-it.
Vinniepaz420
15/36 Had a friend bring back a US mail box.
Hodaka
16/36 Those home-made cosmetics and creams and hair styling products. Back in India, we only get standard mass-manufacture brands like Axe etc.
IndianPhDStudent
17/36 A friend from the UK bought a ton of king size Reese's to give to friends. Another friend from Germany thought it was hilarious to bring back a bunch of those "redneck" T-shirts from Wal-mart for him and his friends.
5firtrees
18/36 Everyone I know keeps American currency, especially notes. It's just so iconic.
joejxmes
19/36 State shaped fridge magnets. Got one for each state we've genuinely been it. Slowly building a map.
Bawbag3000
20/36 Pancake mix. European Crepes are popular in India, but people are wide-eyed at fluffy spongy American pancakes. Blew my mind.
IndianPhDStudent
21/36 Clothes. All the clothes. Every time I go to the US I do about two years' worth of shopping. You guys have NO IDEA how cheap your country is. All the clothes in my country (in Central America) have to be imported from the US with huge tariffs and there's barely any variety.
EgoSumAbbas
22/36 That cheese in a can. [Damn], I love that spray cheese.
tryagain420
23/36 Red hot dogs. Everyone talks about the red hot dogs. My fianc comes from the local First Nations reservation and we can't even mention going to the states without everyone and their cousin asking for red hot dogs.
wigglyjiggly77
24/36 I brought back a massive 30-ounce Dunkin Donuts travel mug. Best purchase for uni ever.
rymenhild
25/36 Jif peanut butter. My grandma still hasn't gotten over it no longer being sold in Canada.
Kyattoo
26/36 Pine needles! When visiting the PNW, what better way to remember it than to bring the smell home with you?
OhGoodnessRon
27/36 Not a typical souvenir but my parents just came back from NY and brought me a kitchen measuring set (with different sized cups and spoons). I'm so excited to use them, I wanted some for a while, I love to cook but american recipes are always a PITA because of the measurements. Now I'm gonna cook ALL THE THINGS!
Haelx
28/36 India here. My state Gujarat is dry state as in no alcohol in whole damn state. Whenever I visit I HAVE TO bring as much alcohol as my skinny shoulders can carry.
Hardik_hrc
29/36 Jeans. A $40 pair of Levi's is three times as much in Germany. Americans are living the denim high life and they don't even know it.
purtymouth
30/36 I bought a plushy buffalo when i visited Buffalo, NY for 3 weeks for work, because the idea of having a Buffalo Buffalo just amuses me.
NEWSBOT3
31/36 My family in China always wants vitamins when we go back to visit them. Gummy vitamins for the kids and normal ones for everyone else. They're also big fans of over the counter tylenol or excedrin.
aimerz_
32/36 Finland doesn't have strawberry milk. At all. My boyfriend is from Florida and mails/brings me some every once in a while to ensure my survival.
PrincessSlowpoke
33/36 We have family living in the states. Whenever we go over or if they come back here to the UK I always get them to bring some apple butter. That stuff is like crack.
[deleted]
34/36 As weird as it sound, my souvenir from the US was a single Dollar that I have hanging on the wall. Every night I go to bed under the watchful eyes of General Washington.
Kaiserhawk
35/36 I brought back something that I have never seen before, and that I can't believe even exists - cheese that you can squirt out of a can.
Miserable_Bugger
36/36 Those cinnamon roll tubes that explode when you open them! I'd give my first born for those things.
tshirtweather
I can't definitively say I've come face to face with the spirits. But I have had some unsettling feelings in the dark. Shadows are just shadows sometimes, but who can be sure.
I hear it...
Nbc Wings GIF by HULUGiphy"I was helping my dad clean my grandma's house after she passed and I went in and was trying to find a song in my phone and before I could I heard a cough plain as day come from down the hallway where her room was. She died of lung and throat cancer it was pretty crazy."
Running Past...
"When I was 5 I remember getting home from my grandpa's birthday party. For context my mom was pregnant with my brother at the time, so my parents had already bought his crib. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a women in a white dress and long black hair standing over my brother's crib. I managed to wake up my dad so he could take me to the bathroom. When I got back it was still there. It was only until morning when it disappeared. Every now and then I see a glance of what I assume is that thing running past the backyard."
The Cat
"My best friend and his wife had moved to a new apartment. I came over to visit a few times, and each time I'd see the motion of a cat in my peripheral vision. Not the image of a cat, but a sense of how a cat moves. Anyway, one day I finally cracked some joke about the ghost cat in the place and his wife was instantly saying "See! See! I told you we had a ghost cat!"
"excuse me"
"I worked graveyard shift in a dementia ward for 4 years and it was anything but quiet. I was working with a nurse one night when we both heard a resident say "excuse me." We looked around and no-one was there. I checked on the resident in question and she was fast asleep in her own room. Many of us also experienced someone whistling in the ward late at night and one nurse even managed to catch a video of it happening. It was unnerving to say the least."
Clueless
Skeleton GIFGiphy"I once saw someone short walk by me in my house. They walked into the laundry room which only has one way in. I walked into it behind them and they where gone. I thought it was my little brother but I went to his room and he was asleep. I still have no clue what that was."
- ImBolio
Now was everyone here positive they were sober? Just asking. Those are certainly spooky moments. I'd like some video footage please. Continue...
Reflections
ghost library GIFGiphy"I was up at 3am when I was maybe 7 or 8. I looked out the window and saw a woman in a white dress run across my yard. I could see through her. She was transparent like the reflections on the window."
"you alright?"
"So, my work place is haunted. I was having a really crap day, and as a cleaner, it's normal that me and my co worker will be the only ones left at night. So I was standing on the second floor, leaning on the banister for the stair case, when I heard this male voice say in my ear "you alright?" Clear as day. I turned around so fast and nobody was there and it scared the hell out of me."
- Rex-the-
Watching Me
"I remember as a young kid I usually use to sit in my bed and watch tv with my room door open while the adjacent guest bedroom next to mine would always have the door shut. I always remember seeing that door fully open and close by itself multiple times a day very slowly and gently. Never really bothered me much now that I think about it… but there were other creepier experiences I had in the same house that made me feel uncomfortable like I was being watched."
Betsy
"I went to the Betsy Ross House as a really little kid in the early 90s. Normal house but I was confused why the tour guide never talked about the woman on the chair crying at the edge of the bed in Betsy Ross's bedroom. So I asked about it. No one else saw the woman at the edge of the bed. I figured it was just a wax museum since there was a wax statue of a man in uniform rolling bullets in the basement."
"Years later, I was looking at haunted Philadelphia tours to go on with a friend and the Betsy Ross House was on it. I was like "woah! I was there!" and looked into it some more. Turns out there is a woman at the end of the bed crying and a uniformed man in the basement that people have reported seeing. There is no way that 8 year old me would have known about either of these things."
hello kitty...
hello kitty lol GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphy"I had this hello kitty Balloon In my bed room, it had a string and weight on it. So it was late, I had the lights on just Sitting on my bed. The Balloon turns, faces my door, slowly floats into my hallway and turns and floats into my sister's room. To this day I am scared of balloons."
They are among us and they like Hello Kitty. I'm probably rattling the paranormal cages and they'll come for me next, but I'm ready. I feel like this thread has prepared me.
Boo!
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