May 2014 Taste For Sweets Review

My Taste For Sweets box came already!

My roomate's cat approves of this box. Either that or he was just wanting his picture taken, I don't know.

First look

The paper is glittery this month instead of white.

This was the biggest item this month. It's an Ulker Dankek cake from Turkey. It's chocolate orange. I'm assuming it's not lacto vegetarian-friendly, but it has my dad's name all over it.

Once again, I don't trust this item as being lacto-vegetarian friendly, but it's a strawberry cream cake from Japan.

As I've said, I'm a little loose on the egg part of my moral-based diet. This is a Dobryanka from Turkey, and despite the "egg powder" in it, I gave it a try. It was, by far, the best candy I've had in a Taste For Sweets box. It also had the ingredients printed on it in English, which is always a plus.

This candy was also amazing! It's translates to "Cup of Milk." It's a Ukrainian candy, soft caramel filled with milk. It doesn't even have eggs in it!

I'm amazed as heck that I could eat this! It's a Russian candy, a "souffle" covered in chocolate. It's also strawberry, and very good.

I'm sorry all the lighting is terrible, I can't seem to be home during daylight anymore! This is a chocolate-covered nut thing. It's a "squirrel" hard candy from the Ukrane.

I was having trouble identifying this little guy. It's a tiramisu caramel truffle from Russia. It was really good, and the last actual truffle I had, I didn't like, so it may have just reopened a window for me.

This is a Bon o Bon from Brazil. It's a mushy, peanut-flavored center covered in chocolate.

From Poland, this is a Miezanka Krakowska. It's a lime jelly coated in chocolate. Lime candy has never been this good.

This is a Roshen Mont Blanc, once again from the Ukraine. It's white and milk chocolate, and the inside is filled with very finely chopped hazelnuts. They're chopped smaller than rice.

I think this was the most unusual candy I tried in this box. Turron Supercoco is from Colombia, and it's a coconut hard candy. It tastes a little like molasses with coconut. I wouldn't mind a few more of these, but they're a little tough to get used to.

I had these in another box and liked them so much I ordered more from the site! These Shipuchka candies from the Ukraine come in the lemon and orange shown above and a bubble gum flavor.

This made me feel very uncomfortable. I'm like 200% sure it had eggs in it, and it was just...strange. It was the actual strangest thing in this box, described as being a chocolate-covered vanilla "souffle" from Kazakhstan, called Ptichye Moloko.

I'm now wondering why they don't make more pear-flavored hard candies, apart from Dum-Dums. These candies from Belarus (which is a small country near Poland...totally had to look that up) are pear-fect!

This box seemed a little bit smaller than the last couple, but they've also just started up a new "request" portion. I'm requesting some more "Cup of Milk" candies! I also thought there were some more interesting candies this time around, so it was still an exciting box for me.

-E.S.

May 2014 Merco Box Review

I was lucky enough to win a giveaway on The Stepford Guide for another Merco Box! If you recall, I tried this box back in March and loved it! Unfortunately, due to money constraints, I can't afford to subscribe, even though it's a great deal, but now I get to try another box anyway!

No first look this month because, as you'll see in a minute, I was so excited, I just dug in.

There were three of these macaroons from Fillings and Emulsions, but now there are none.

This bath truffle is both a blessing and a curse. I don't know what a bath truffle is, but it looks and smells great. The curse part is that the epsom salts from this product were all over everything else in the box.

I feel like the $5 price on this 2oz item might be steep, but then, I've never seen guava jam before, maybe it's rare and special.

As you can see, I'd already sampled this too before I took the pictures (like the macaroons). In all honesty, I've had better gourmet popcorns, but I still ate it.

I love these sunglasses though! I really need to get contacts so I can wear all the many sunglasses I have amassed.

Body mousse was new for me too. This product uses vegetable glycerin, which I was super happy about. It is impossibly soft and creamy, the scent is ridiculously gentle and wonderful, and so far it seems to be a great moisturizer. I may order from them again, particularly with the $10 off $35 coupon that came with the box.

Merco Box was wonderful yet again! I love all the different types of products that they send, as well as the value! I really need to work up the money to be able to subscribe to this box.

In the meantime, have you subscribed? What's holding you back?

-E.S.