Jul 26 2007
reminiscing
I was surfing Nostalgia Manila the other day and food from my childhood suddenly came flashing back to me. Junk food, that is, and I miss it! I don’t know if you guys any of these that I’m going to mention…
Wonder Boy
Comes in white plastic with a cartoon of a boy in a spaceship, i think. These are round chips that is barbecue flavored and about three pieces per pack. I still can buy these in Malabon’s market.
M Egg
These are milk flavored candy tablets. I love these! It comes in white packaging too, three pieces per pack. It’s like Haw Haw (Milk flavored candy blocks in light blue pillow packs) but a little softer.
Milo
I don’t really know if this is the real name for it. They’re little chocolate blocks that’s like clay in texture.
Tira-tira
Now this one’s confusing… I remember in college that I told somebody about these candies and he brought me some but what he brought were red candies that’s like candy canes in texture. What I was referring to were red sticks that were translucent, kinda like Fox’s candy, and was thick as a pencil and about 4 or 5 inches long. And everyone I asked also referred to the candy cane textured ones so I was the one who’s probably wrong about the name.
Cherry Balls
Now this one, I think everyone’s familiar with this. Who could forget those sweet little red gum balls? Which leads me to the next one and also the next one after that.
Big Boy
I love these too! I just keep popping these pink gums into my mouth.
Bazooka Joe
I loved reading the comics that comes with these and sometimes I even get two comics in one gum! But I like Big Boy better than Bazooka Joe because it’s softer. And chewing on these tires my jaw.
There are lots more but I can’t remember all of them right now. I even remember that a bottle of Pop Cola, and I mean one bigger than the solo size, costs only P1.75. And I also remember those red lollipops that’s on a long, thin red sticks and the plastic cover’s colored red and green which, if I’m not mistaken, looked like a strawberry print.
Also, one time my friends and I were on our way to Anilao and we were singing along to Bob Marley’s Guava Jelly. Then I wondered aloud how guava jelly tastes like and they were a little surprised that I haven’t tasted it yet. They said said they’d eaten it when they were kids and it was actually their fave. Then they kept teasing me that I don’t have a childhood because I didn’t eat guava jelly when I was a kid. Haha!
Those were the days…
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Keep it up and have a nice day!
i remember all that too! it’s hard to find all those now…nakakamiss!
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thanks for the patience Buge!
I remember guava jelly too! Hahaha…childhood days!
Loved the Jojo chewy candies too!
Oh i can’t resist that bazooka joe,i love reading the comics of it too!Why is it that childhood times is not easy to forget huh?There’s a lot more junk foods i miss until now,but i don’t think it’s still exists.
yong wonder boy lang ata ang di ko naabutan buge. hehe. i esp. love the cherry balls kasi ginagawa ko yong lipstick. lol! tnx for dropping by my blogs.
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