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The other day, I received a care package from the States.  A friend had casually asked for my address and I did thought she was going to send a card or something. 

It turned out to be a bag of my favorite gummy candy, Swedish fish.

For those of you who don’t know, Swedish Fish candy looks like this.  They are usually red in color.  The normal Swedish Fish gummy is about 2.5cm (1 inch) long.  

And the regular-sized packet looks like this. 

The bag of candy I received though contained giant Swedish Fish measuring about 5cm (2 inches) long!  1.5kg (3.5 lbs) of such red monsters loomed inside the massive bright yellow packaging. 

My Chinese colleagues who had never seen such candy before thought someone had sent me a big bag of clothes detergent powder. 

Apparently they call it the “wholesale pack”.  I call it a “random act of Swedish madness”.  Thanks Mug-mug!