We get food parcels from the States occasionally – I think Linda’s folks think we still have rationing. They normally contain vital foods from the USA that you can’t get over here, like Skippy Peanut Butter (we can’t do peanut butter in the same way Americans can’t do cheese), and those two New Mexico staples, dried chilis and salsa from Sadie’s restaurant in Albuquerque. They come packaged in military grade packing, each jar wrapped in several layers of bubble wrap, then bound in fabric backed parcel tape and packed in a large box full of packing peanuts, which is then entirely wrapped with tape again. It takes about an hour to unpack them. We get to keep the contents and the cats get to jump into the box. And then we find packing peanuts all over the house for the next week or so.