Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
> Many of us enjoy sending - and receiving - "care packages" of various
> culinary goodies and such...
>
> Who do you send them to...???
>
> What do you include in them...???

When I was a kid, once a year we'd receive a big
box of assorted food items that you couldn't
get in California from mom's family in Hawaii.

That would include nori, arare, salted plums,
macadamia nuts, ramen, those horrible little
spherical yellow Japanese cookies (I forget
what they're called, but they're one of mom's
favorites), etc. Of course, now she can just
go down the street to buy all that stuff at
an Oriental food market, and a lot of it is
available at Safeway.

My favorites were the arare, wonton chips
(the package had a picture of a weightlifter
holding a giant barbell marked "1 ton" above
his head), boiled peanuts, and macadamia nuts.