(edit title) Taking meat to England Freezed or un-freezed Options

[intrepidfox]

Can anybody give me a few tips.

Next week i´m going for a quick trip to the UK and my daughter loves Flintastek. What is the best way to take it. Freezed or un-freezed. No piss taking please as this is a serious question.

[PDX]

Best way in which sense? The meat will survive the two hour flight easily...

HMRC guidelines on food product import are here:
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalW...MCE_PROD_010856

~~~PDX~~~

[Svensksmith]

No piss taking??? Aww, you're spoiling all the fun.

[JulieLou40]

Best way in which sense? The meat will survive the two hour flight easily.... HMRC guidelines on food product import are here:. http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalW...MCE_PROD_010856. ~~~PDX~~~

Nobody's bothered about you bringing food in if you come from within the EU. I've done it loads of times and never had a problem. Cheese, meat, you name it.

[Rick Methven]

Sure you can take any meat product with the EU, but you are going to take a risk. especially as you are talking about raw pork. If you take it un-frozen, it will get very warm between the time you leave home until the time you can get it into a fridge in the UK. plenty of time for bacteria to grow. If you take it frozen, chances are it will be thawed by the time you get to your destination and bacteria again will take hold.

Flintasteak is only a large pork chop, which I am sure you can get in the UK from any good butcher

[JulieLou40]

Yes I would always take meat frozen, then stick it in the fridge at the final destination and use it fairly quickly.

[intrepidfox]

Thanks Rick and JulieLou.

My daughter really loves flintastek so i will take it frozen as we will probably have a bbq when we arrive-

[Hamsterdam]

Why don't you stop pandering your child over a pork chop and get her something else. We all like things but learn at a young age that we can't always get what we want. Perhaps you should try to impart that simple parenting skill.?

[Flutterbye]

IMO No food stuffs should be allowed to be taken from one country to another, this is exactly how diseases are transferred, Australia and New Zealand have very strict regulations concerning this and if you don't declare any food stuffs you are in big trouble and quite rightly so, I went through the red channel in NZ because I had tea bags which are classed as plant material but was allowed to keep them as they were purchased in the UK.
Both these countries have not had an outbreak of foot and mouth for over a hundred years so shows what they are doing is works.

[Mb 65]

when you travel to different countries you should try the food there not take it with you. Meat in the UK is no different to Sweden. Just look in any supermarket. That's the thrill of travelling is trying the food of that country there might be something out there that your daughter could like more than Flintsteak but she will never know. She could always find an IKEA in the UK and have meatballs.

[intrepidfox]

Why don't you stop pandering your child over a pork chop and get her something else. We all like things but learn at a young age that we can't always get what we want. ... (show full quote)

Why don't you stop pandering your child over a pork chop and get her something else. We all like things but learn at a young age that we can't always get what we want. Perhaps you should try to impart that simple parenting skill.? ... (hide full quote)

Stop being a wanker. She´s 27 and moved to the UK 5 years ago. Wtf do you know about parenting?

[gplusa]

The key to getting into NZ or Australia in a hurry is to declare something. Anything. We always buy a chocolate bar at the airport when departing and head straight for the Red line on arrival. Where no one else is standing. We show them the chocolate bar, they look at us with distain for wasting their time, and you're on your way.

Did the same thing one time in Bangkok. I had a head cold and had some over the counter cold meds with me. However, I get shit scared at Bangkok airport every time, so thought I should declare everything up my bum. They nearly fell over when I turned up unannounced at the Declares table, and almost passed out when I told them I wanted to declare some drugs. I don't think that they could quite believe their luck. Disappointed little Thai men are a sad sight.

[skogsbo]

IMO No food stuffs should be allowed to be taken from one country to another, this is exactly how diseases are transferred, Australia and New Zealand have very strict regulati ... (show full quote)

IMO No food stuffs should be allowed to be taken from one country to another, this is exactly how diseases are transferred, Australia and New Zealand have very strict regulations concerning this and if you don't declare any food stuffs you are in big trouble and quite rightly so, I went through the red channel in NZ because I had tea bags which are classed as plant material but was allowed to keep them as they were purchased in the UK.
Both these countries have not had an outbreak of foot and mouth for over a hundred years so shows what they are doing is works. ... (hide full quote)

But when you can openly drive across borders in Europe and apart from the UK & Ireland, an animal can easily cross borders itself. There are currently several diseases spreading northwards across the UK in sheep/cattle etc that have been spread by midges. So a piece of frozen meat is no threat to man nor beast.

Austrailia/NZ has strict controls because they are an in an isolated state, their range of natural predators and diseases are very different. Look at snakes, no land snakes in NZ at all, a truck load of poisonous types in Aus. Disease are the main reason why in NZ they are keen to scrub and spray the bottom of walking boots on arrival etc.

There may be no foot & mouth there, but foot and mouth is a cosmetic disease, it does harm the animals long term (people can catch hand foot & mouth), it's just with our picky western standards we deem it bad. Many nations who produce meat for their own internal market happily get along with it.

Anyway, when the OP gets to the UK, forget your supermarket, go to any decent independant butcher, tell them what you want, they'll chop you a few kilos of your favourite shape and thickness pork chops. Problem solved.

[Puffin]

Why don't you stop pandering your child over a pork chop and get her something else. We all like things but learn at a young age that we can't always get what we want. ... (show full quote)

Why don't you stop pandering your child over a pork chop and get her something else. We all like things but learn at a young age that we can't always get what we want. Perhaps you should try to impart that simple parenting skill.? ... (hide full quote)

lol - there is a whole industry that "panders" to expats - English shop, Taylors and Jones, Swedish food shop - you really want them all out of business

[Puffin]

OP there are some butchers that will vacuum pack meat for youfor a small fee - it might be worth looking into - otherwise you could try frozen or a cool bag for a short flight