The Right gift

[El Sid]

My daughter flies out to Hamburg tomorrow to stay with a German family for a few days.
As a gift to the host family my wife suggested she take a tin of biscuits with a union jack lid.
Is this appropriate or is my idea of The Dambusters DVD better.

What would you give to a German?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Just pulling up an armchair...and...GO.

 

[WhingForPresident]

A black eye.

 

[nwgull]

A load of sticks of Brighton Rock.

 

[Meade's Ball]

A pair of mullet-trimmers and some moustache wax for the fraus of the family.

 

[Icy Gull]

Spike Milligan's book Hitler, my part in his Downfall as well as a copy of the Fawlty Towers the German's episode and a video of the 1966 World Cup Final. Oh and a return ticket for the evening of arrival for your daughter in case the host family don't have a sense of humour.

 

[El Sid]

A pair of mullet-trimmers and some moustache wax for the fraus of the family.

I like this one - along with a copy of "Advanced Armpit Hair Platting"

 

[Norman Potting]

English language DVD of "Dinner for One".

 

[Janbha]

 

[wellquickwoody]

The box set of Fawlty Towers?

 

[SeagullSongs]

Something that's very British and unavailable in Germany. Can't think of anything off the top of my head though.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

Nah take a DVD... Germany 1 - 5 England would be a great choice. Along with something from Lidl.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Tea and marmite

 

[upthealbion1970]

A sense of humour

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Nah take a DVD... Germany 1 - 5 England would be a great choice.

Probably my choice - the Fawlty Towers option makes the British look stupid, not the Germans.

 

[Brian Fantana]

A sense of humour

Is the winner.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Something that's very British and unavailable in Germany. Can't think of anything off the top of my head though.

The Duke of York?

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

The Pub Landlord dvd

 

[wunt be druv]

1966 World Cup Final DVD.I have German friends and that is the ONE thing guaranteed to wind them right up.

 

[pishhead]

Something like a decent bottle of whisky. From memory it is fairly expensive in Germany.