The Munchies Blog

A while ago, I had sent off a food parcel. When I returned from two weeks in Sweden last Thursday, I was quite surprised to see that it had somehow found its way back — in a new wrapping and filled with lots of goodies from England :) Thanks a lot, Katrin!

I managed to forget my camera’s battery and the compact flash card in Sweden, so this blog entry has to survive without any pictures. Sorry, folks!

The parcel contained

• A small bag of Hearty’s salted soy nuts.
• A cranberry and macadamia bar made by Eat Natural.
  
• Three small bars of Green&Black’s organic chocolate: Milk, White and Maya Gold.
• A bag of Organic Bombay Mix.
• A package of Desert Cajun Rub “proudly hand-made in Australia” by Screaming Seeds Spice Co.
• 2 vanilla pods in a very nice silver tube.
• A book with chocolate recipes, apparently from a series called “cook specials” by Oil&Vinegar (which is a shop in Bath, if I remember correctly).
• An organic almond biscotti (or whatever the proper singular form is) “made for Caffè Nero”, a café in Bath that I’ve heard mentioned once or twice or maybe a few more times…
• And, last but not least, a pencil sharpener with a wind-up flower (the head can rotate) which has removable eraser leaves. Or something. I guess I’ll have to take a picture of this as soon as I’ve got a working camera…

So far, I’ve tried the soy nuts (nice but a bit weird) and the cranberry and macadamia bar (ok for a granola bar, but somehow not quite my taste). But the biscotti thingy is definitely in danger now ;)

Yay for food parcels, especially those that also come with toys!

Somehow it feels like Katrin is trying to get the title “the great munchies hunter” ;) A while ago, she sent in a picture of “Les Munchies”, a sandwich place in Bath, UK. When she was in Bochum the last time, she brought me a package of Munchies made by Nestlé, which she apparently found lurking around in a shop at Bristol airport (well, the Munchies were lurking, I wouldn’t know about Katrin as I wasn’t there).

They taste like, hm, well, I guess like it’s to be expected. Cheapish chocolate with caramel and a tiny biscuit. Something that probably wants to be a Twix when it grows up. Not too horrible altogether, but I don’t think I’d buy it. But thanks anyway :)
A fun thing I read somewhere on the Internet is that apparently, the message on the package side changes (in case it’s not obvious from the picture, the message on mine read “devour me” before I opened the package).