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Mantry
Cost: $75/month
Ships To: United States.
If you aren’t familiar with them, Mantry (aka the Modern Man’s Pantry) is a food of the month club that lets you discover the finest american artisan foods – and gives you ideas of what to do with them. At $75/month it’s a spendy box for sure, but B totally totally loves it.
Mantry ships via UPS Sure Post. It typically starts out as UPS and is then delivered by USPS. This month, however, UPS delivered my Mantry. I had a few other items coming via UPS so they brought them all together and we got our crate a day early!
I tried to left the Mantry crate out of the box this month and pulled the sides of it right off. Oops! I was so focused on the fact that I broke the Mantry crate that I didn’t even pay attention to the first look.
The June 2014 Mantry theme was “Salty Dog” and included the following six products inspired by the sea:
~Butter & Sea Salt HalfPops ($4.29): These are really good. In fact I remember being surprised about how good they were the first time I tried them. B too.
~White Whale The Filthy Liar Bold Mixer ($12): This mixer is supposed to be mixed with equal parts gin to great a perfect summer cocktail. I am not a big fan of gin, but I am sure B will be happy to try this.
~Coop’s Hot Fudge ($10.99): So so good. We have gotten this in a past Mantry and loved it. Mantry suggests this with their Hot Fudge Banana Split which happens to be topped with Halfpops! I am not totally sure what I think about that idea, but we will all be happy to eat this on some kind of ice-cream!
~Bar Harbor New England Style Clam Chowder ($4): This is another past Mantry item. B enjoyed it and will enjoy it again, but I am sure he would prefer a new item. Or some sort of beef jerky if it’s going to be a past item.
~Island Trollers Albacore Tuna ($6.25): I can honestly say that I wasn’t expecting this can to be so expensive! However, when I read about Island Trollers further I learned that this tuna is caught one at a time in the U.S. and is sashimi grade albacore. I can only hope that B shares this with me!
~Liddabit Sweets Sea Salt Caramels ($8): Delicious! We got the “Beer and Bacon” flavor or these from Mantry before and I have tried a few of their other varieties in previous boxes as well. They are all good! I do think that the sea salt is my favorite of the bunch though!
All totaled I came up with a value of $45.53 for the June 2014 Mantry box. Of course that doesn’t include shipping for the items because I know not all of them are sold in my local area, but I still wish that the value was higher. And maybe that they didn’t do repeats so often? Unless they were beef jerky of course. That would be just fine with B!
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