Re-Yum

[susandennis]

A while back I signed up for Universal Yum - a box of candy/snacks for a different country of the world each month. Their plan does not send you a box immediately. They just add you to the next round. So I paid for a box but had no box week after week and finally decided that $14 a month was too much to buy mystery food I might not like and/or worse, fall in love with and could never find here.

So I canceled. Easy to do. They explained that my box I paid for would still be shipped but no more after that.

And then today, I got the box. I now have reinstated my subscription.

This box was from Ukraine. And it's amazing. They include a cute little booklet all about the Ukraine and a detail on what is in each snack and some about how it came to be included. It is the cleverest thing in the world and I'm delighted.



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Comments

[underwear-slave.livejournal.com]

How funny, I have never heard of it, and you are the second person this week to post about getting a box! Looks really interesting and fun! But I agree, it would suck to fond something you really like and not be able to get it.

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is cool.

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

Would totally sign up for that if it were in my budget--it looks great!

[solteronita.livejournal.com]

Well, how fun is that! I need to remember this when my nieces' birthdays roll around.

[meowmensteen]

Alllllmost tempted, but I think I'd rather pick out my own candy at Cost Plus and in Chinatown.

[pheloniusfriar.livejournal.com]

I know a few people that subscribe to boxes and a long as they're affordable, everyone I know loves them. We don't get enough surprises in our modern lives and this is a great way of making sure we get at least one pleasant surprise on a regular basis :).

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

That looks so cool!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I've been seriously tempted by that... but, like you, one of my big worries is that I'll get hooked on something that I can't get easily or at all in the US. I've already got a few things I love that are next to impossible to find in the US (any time I find out someone is going to Australia, I beg them to bring me back a bag of snack-sized Cherry Ripes).

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

If I didn't have food allergies I'd love to try something like that

[colestainedpage.livejournal.com]

We just ordered a subscription box for a friend, and this company lets you purchase previous boxes. I'd check with Universal Yum to see if you could do that if you end up with a particular box that you just love.

[susandennis]

Nope they don't. Plus if I fall in love with one thing, I'm not sure I would want to buy the whole country again just to get one more of that one thing.

[topum.livejournal.com]

We had a coupe of very bad experiences with Ukrainian sweets while in Moldova (I think I even posted about it) and kind of gave up on them. I think that those Ukrainian sweets that were available in our local village shop must have been very low-end and very cheap ones. We are going to give it a try again when we visit Ukraine.