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Foreign foods

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Swap Coordinator:hanfmuk (contact)
Swap categories: Food  Newbie 
Number of people in swap:14
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:March 13, 2009
Date items must be sent by:March 31, 2009
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

This swap gives you an excuse to visit the shops near where you live that stock food that's foreign to your country. For example, where I live (in Scotland) we have Polish, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish shops.

Buy around $5 of food for each of your two partners. It can be anything, though do check their profiles for allergies, likes & dislikes and do your best to buy accordingly.

Hopefully this will give us all a chance to try out some new foods, and it means that even if you end up with partners from your own country there's still a good chance you'll be receiving things you've never tried before.

If you want to join this swap you must have your profile filled out. Newbies are welcome if they contact me first (there's a 'contact' link next to my name at the top of the swap). Non-newbies must have no 1-ratings ever (although I'm willing to make exceptions if you've been rating unfairly at some point - just let me know what happened), and no 3-ratings in the past 3 months (unless you have a very good explanation). I reserve the right to ban problem swappers.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Discussion

ohiowiner 03/ 2/2009 #

Great idea! Now I have an excuse to go into that "World Food Market"!

feistyfoodie 03/ 3/2009 #

ohiowiner - there's no world food market near me, but I hear awesome things about it...!

ChelelosGirl 03/ 3/2009 #

this is an interesting one :-)

hanfmuk 03/ 3/2009 #

Thanks for your enthusiasm - I realised that this swap does somewhat discriminate against people who live in more remote places and don't have access to foreign food shops but I thought it was worth trying to run the swap anyway. If it goes well I'll do it again.

Tatsu 03/10/2009 #

I was wondering, if we live in a remote place/country, can we simply send typical things from home? I live in Peru,and I seriously doubt I'll get someone from my own country.

hanfmuk 03/10/2009 #

That would be fine, @Tatsu

xine 03/11/2009 #

I will be sending out asian food items (Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Philippine) hope my partner likes it

misnatalie 03/12/2009 #

I would love anything from your local region as long as you are outside the US. If you are in the US anything regional to your state or unique would be great

toniaaa 03/14/2009 #

It is difficult to ship food to US, doesn't it??

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