<p>Goodness, all this fraternizing with a Yankees fan is distressing me, and I’m just an innocent onlooker on this thread (not when it comes to that topic though-Boston baby here, born and bred). </p>
<p>But, to the point, when I would go away for the summer I always loved when my mom sent me a CD from a band she knew I loved but didn’t have, or someone she knew I would love. Even though everyone could just buy everything off iTunes or something, it would make me think of home when I’d listen to that CD. So that was always a nice little care package gift. </p>
<p>And, Ring Dings basically own all other cupcakey type desserts, in my humble opinion : )</p>
<p>(I’ll go back to lurking now)</p>
<p>what’s a ring ding?</p>
<p>frosting-stuffed-choclate-covered-choclate-cake?</p>
<p>We have something similar called a Ding Dong by Hostess. Totally gross, in my book. Why bother, when you can get fresh pastries? Our local bakery makes amazing pumpkin spice cookies, only available in October and November. I want those in my care package!</p>
<p>where are you?
NE?</p>
<p>WOW.
all the cake-type-baked-but-not-so-baked-foods-such-as-ring-dings-or-somethings are all so…chocolatey.
heehee.
im not really the type for those, but i think i’d like little hard candy things.
but that’s just me being kind of japanese i guess.
i’ve never seen/tried any of those cupcakeycakey things and they definitely don’t have those in japan (unless they import it) but japanese people apparently like sour stuff.
or so i think from all the stuff that they sell in the stores.
so yeahhh.</p>
<p>I want some of this food! I hate being from the south =/. I am definitely dragging my parents to Crumbs after my revisit, when we go to New York.</p>
<p>obama…I have a pumpkin spice version of the whoopie pie. It is filled with a cream cheese filling, yum. Acually, I love pumpkin anything.
brooklyn…My newphew lives in Brooklyn…I will have to direct him to this Crumbs place so when he visits this summer he can bring some of those amazing cupcakes with him. He will be coming home for a family reunion…I think we can sign him up for desserts.</p>
<p>ickleronnie…what, no cupcakes in Japan?? No wonder we are all so fat over here.</p>
<p>well, we do have cupcakes, I guess, but no really really mushy creamy stuff. mostly gummies and so on. The old people who don’t care about their weight prefer Japanese traditional food over western imported fluffy stuff (sorry i don’t know what else to call it :P), and the people who do eat western-ish stuff are young and they seem to obsess about calories and stuff.</p>
<p>I’m Japanese myself, but from what I see, a lot of the young people in their early twenties seem to obsess a bit about that, so no cupcakes for them. There’s often diet leaflets and stuff in random places (like the “milkshake-type-drink diet” or the “soybean-milk-cookie” diet :P)</p>
<p>Of course we have cupcakes in east asia. We have brownies too. Our chefs go on documentaries for their food art our ice cream cakes rock. yum yum. now I want a cookie ):</p>
<p>lol very random, no offense intended. here it’s a bit less sweet though, and since asians in general are smaller than westerners (that’s slightly changing though, the guys are getting taller and taller O_O girl height is rising as well) we tend to have less in a produced meal, like McDonalds wouldn’t provide the super pack (sorry, the name changed because of the Supersize Me documentary for mcd) and those sort of meals. </p>
<p>here we have people saying bottled tea is the best way to go (we go from corn tea, to green tea, to black bean tea, to anything else. they taste good though, especially the black bean. btw it’s not black and corn tea is not yellow and green tea is not green. well not really) for diets. meh. i love soda too much to care :P</p>
<p>Yeah, we do have cupcakes I guess. Sorry It’s just that almost all the baked goods I’ve seen recently were baked by one baking-loving friend, and I just don’t see much in shops. haha yeaaah we do have ice cream cakes, like from Baskin Robins. I don’t know if you have it there (do you live in…Korea? haha just a wild guess)</p>
<p>I LOVE BOTTLED TEA!!! I LOVE IT!!! hehe. I’m going to die at boarding school without it. But I won’t TOUCH the “tea” that they sell in the states. it tastes like orange juice. too sweet.
but then again i guess no one would actually drink it if it tasted like actual tea.</p>
<p>Ah, but there are so many varieties of bottled tea now. Arizona makes some tasty, simple teas. Avoid the bottled Lipton with lemon…it tastes like tea-flavored lemonade instead of tea with lemon. Or better yet, look for the Celestial Seasoning powder that you add to bottled water. No artificial sweetners, just deliciousness. Or the DHC powdered green tea.</p>
<p>Deck of cards, small games, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t know any BS teen who wouldn’t be thrilled to receive an i-tunes card.</p>
<p>I also send boxes of individual Crystal Light mix, so my D can add them to her bottled water.</p>
<p>great ideas!</p>
<p>I sent my son (who goes to an international boarding school in Wales) a box of peeps for easter. He shared them with his housemates who thought they were a blast – apparently they aren’t found outside the US. They did blow up a bunch in the microwave!</p>
<p>Dazzlezz, I don’t think we have pralines in Florida-or at least ones worth having!
I went to this place called the Savannah Candy Shop or something, and they were giving samples of pralines just out of the oven, so my mom and I kept on going back to get some!</p>
<p>hsmomstef: as I read your peeps post, I was thinking to myself “Gee, I hope her son showed his welsh classmates some ‘good old American fun’ like blowing up peeps in the microwave!” I’ve never been a big fan of marshmallowy treats but exploding peeps do make me laugh! :D</p>
<p>I would also like to recommend a couple of boxes of Girl Scout cookies to include in the care package (or have them sent directly from GSA). Our whole family loves them and they aren’t the kind of things that show up at boarding school often.</p>
<p>We tried FRIED TWINKEES for the first time last summer. We were told they are a big thing in the south. Not that you can send them in a care package, but there can’t possibly be anything worse for you than that. Not even the fried oreos.<br>
Never thought to blow up a peep in the microwave - might have to try that when I get home tonight.</p>
<p>Linda – you really need to go to this website:
[Peep</a> Research](<a href=“http://www.peepresearch.org/]Peep”>http://www.peepresearch.org/)</p>
<p>very interesting official peep research! I love the risk analysis and fear response. There are other websites – just google.</p>