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Global Delights
Cost: $36/month
Ships To: United States. Add $5 for shipping to Alaska, Hawaii & Puerto Rico
Global Delights, who kindly sent me this box to review, is an international food subscription box. Each month you will receive at least seven international food items from a wide variety of food types from a multitude of countries. Foods will range from cookies and candies to soups and entrees.
Global Delights ships via USPS Priority Mail and took the standard two days to arrive.
I love trying international foods so I was really excited about this one. I may not always love everything, but I love testing out new things.
The June 2014 Global Delights information card included product names along with the country of origin for each of them. Here was what was included:
~Taiwan: Japanese Style Mochi: I don’t even know how to describe these. They are…different. Not horrible. But different. The texture is squishy which I really wasn’t expecting. Other than brown sugar I have no idea what they tasted like.
~Columbia: Plantain Chips: L and I liked these. B wasn’t a huge fan. I’d more buy of these if I saw them at the store.
~Ireland: Bourbon Creams: These were a big hit. L and I loved them and B liked them. B said he thought Keebler sandwich cookies were better, but that these were still good. Chocolate filling in a cookie is always a good thing.
~Greece: Sesame Snack: I have had these a few times and don’t really think too much of them either way. They are just kind of there. If I saw them at the store I wouldn’t buy them, but if I were really hungry I’d eat them.
~India: Biscuits: These are cookie like and pretty good. I am guessing dipped in milk they’d be even better.
~England: Glacier Mints: These I haven’t tried yet. They look a bit on the string side so I didn’t want them to sway any of my other tastes. And then at the end I forgot all about them. Oops!
~Netherlands: Honeycake: B loved this cake. L not so much (I think he was expecting it to be like actual birthday cake to something) and I thought it was good. We should have tried it warmed and with butter though. I bet that would have been even better!
~Peru: Soursop Ice Cream Mix: We haven’t made this yet. I thought it would be a fun summer rainy day activity for the kids and I to work on.
~France: Violet Mints: Love the packaging on these! I am throwing them in my purse so I always have some on hand.
I didn’t do a cost breakdown on the Global Delights box since a lot of the items were hard to find (and had shipping costs), but at $36/month that broke down to $4/item for each of the nine items in this month’s box. Since I am not familiar with the costs of some of these I can’t say for sure if that’s a deal or not, but I will say we had a fun time sampling everything. I couldn’t believe that L was even into trying everything!
What do you think of Global Delights? If you are interested in ordering or just want to check out their site, click here.
Hey Jennifer,
I just wanted to advise you that your first link for Global Delights is actually linked to Artistry Gift Wrap. I love reading your reviews.
Thanks for sharing!
Joyce
Thank you! I got that fixed!
Great idea. I love going to stores in other countries and seeing what types of food they have.
Me too. That’s clearly why we are related!
I’m always jealous of your international food boxes! My fiance and I are big mochi fans, but brown sugar is a flavor I wouldn’t have expected. We have had a brown sugar rice cake (spongy, moist cake- not dry cardboard cracker) at dim sum before and liked it. Was the flavor really strong?
I didn’t think the flavor was too strong. It was the texture really that got me.
Yeah I can see that. I can’t think of anything in any other cuisine that matches mochi. It’s like something between a marshmallow and slightly melted gummy bears covered in flavorless powder, which totally doesn’t sound good!