On Nov 17, 2:55*pm, brooklyn1 > wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:43:10 -0500, Goomba >
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> >Nancy2 wrote:
> >> On Nov 17, 1:26 pm, Goomba > wrote:
> >>> Has anyone ever used a mail order wine company to send gift wines to
> >>> friends or family for Christmas? *Any recommendations on good companies
> >>> to deal with? *Anything special I need to be aware of?
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> >>> I'm stumped as to what to send my step-mother for Christmas. If she
> >>> needed or wanted anything she'd just go get it. Christmas gifts are
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> >> "Harry and David" get kudos from me - my brother & wife send me a
> >> towering bunch of boxes every year. *Other than that, I like to send
> >> gift boxes from our sorta local Amana Colonies, which are only 20
> >> miles away.
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> >Harry & David are wonderful but she eats little fruit and no sweets
> >because at her age (80) she's able to manage her Type II diabetes via
> >diet alone (trading off for that that nightly cocktail, I guess? LOL)
> >She still plays tennis 2x/week and golf 1x/week, so she's no invalid.
> >She just is careful. She lives alone so doesn't need a large quantity of
> >anything. I'm thinking wine and cheese could be good, but want to find
> >the right purveyor. I'll look at that Amana Colonies. Don't they do a
> >good blue cheese?
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> My brother sent me wine a few times, he paid twice what it would have
> cost at any neighborhood package store and the shipping was
> outrageous. *I've been sent cheeses too, arrived spoiled from exposure
> to warm weather... also much more expensive than from any stupidmarket
> deli. *Because you mentioned diabetes I won't suggest my best dried
> fruit source... so best nuts on the planet... their pistachios are
> legendary and their cashews are to die for, flavor like no other and
> so huge if you stuffed one in each cup everyone would think you were
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Holy Crap! Those are some expensive nuts!!!