# Foreign country snack care packages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533 "2017-09-28T17:16:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533/21 "2017-10-19T04:39:09Z")

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There’s a foreign snack trading thing on Reddit–[https://www.reddit.com/r/snackexchange/](https://www.reddit.com/r/snackexchange/)

I’ve never done the snack exchange, but I’ve done their Secret Santa for 4 years, and that’s always fun.

As an aside, I live fairly close to a huge international grocery (Jungle Jim’s in Cincinnati) so if anyone has a yen, let me know and I could fix up a package for you. I’m always looking for an excuse to go there. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533/22 "2017-10-30T20:39:25Z")

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I thought I’d check in as a data point and mentioned I’ve got one of the Try the World packets a few weeks ago and received a shipping notice for the next one. They’re ok so far, mostly chocolate and crackers from Belgium and England. Think I’m still going to spring for the Umai crate for the Japanese noodles alone.

But I wasn’t ripped off.

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**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533/24 "2018-10-03T06:58:35Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> I went with the $14 Yum Box at [Universal Yums](https://www.universalyums.com). I’ll post the contents when it gets here!

I bought a subscription for a friend’s birthday last year, he loved it.

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-country-snack-care-packages/797533/25 "2018-10-03T07:35:13Z")

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> [@araminty](#):
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> You might also find fresh foods that are hard to come by, like the whole chickens (WHOLE whole, with heads and feets) at the mercado.

Of course they have their heads. You can’t sell live chickens–the freshest kind–if you cut off the heads.

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