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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!
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