The year is 1994 - it's 9.30am and the bell's rung for recess.
You dutifully head for the canteen to grab a bite.
With your $2 daily allowance in your pocket, you know you can
afford to eat like a King (a somewhat....thrifty King). And yet,
you head straight for the chicken rice stall, where you spend a
mere 50c on a plate to fill your stomach. You know that there are
far better ways to spend $2 than to blow it all on staples. You
don't even buy that Kickapoo that you really want. The water cooler
will have to do.
Chicken rice accounted for, you zero in on the reason for recess -
the snack stall. clutching your $1.50 tightly in your hands, you
take in the sights before you. Thanks to your immaculate financial
planning, you know you're spoilt for choice.
The Mamee monster beckons at you, and for 20c a pop, why not? Who
gives a damn about MSG anyway? Or maybe you'll give yourself a
treat today, and blow 50c on a box of Ding Dang. After all, you
really could use a new toy, and you kinda liked the one you got the
previous time - you know, the one where you blow into a
whistle-like thing and a plastic ball at the end floats in the air?
Truly awesome.
Oh, but to the left of the Ding Dang you spot boxes of Tora - quite
the same as Ding Dang, yet costing 80c. You never could figure out
the reason why, but you buy it sometimes anyway. You figure, since
it costs 30c more, it probably tastes 30c better! Cognitive
disso-what?
It isn't difficult to miss the ubiquitous orange packets of Bee
Bee. Surely a gift from the gods, at only 10c. You know you can
easily polish off 15 at a go, so $1.50 suddenly doesn't look like
so much money anymore...
In the end you choose a diversified portfolio, and make off with a
packet of Mamee, some Ding Dang and 5 packets of Bee Bee. And what
the heck, it's suck a hot day so you just grab one of those 20c ice
popsicles that you'll share with your best friend. With your last
10c, you decide to get 3 Hacks sweets, just to get you through the
next class. Looks like the Ring Pop/Push Pop that you really wanted
will have to wait...
Fast forward to today, and you're looking for a snack. All you can
find is whatever's on the shelves of your neighbourhood 7-11.
Everything tastes the same - it's always chicken or BBQ flavoured.
There simply isn't the variety you're used to. You look to the
skies and wonder where on earth the snacks that you lived on as a
child have gone...
- - -
You all know the snacks, now let's observe a few moments of silence
in honour of them:
Bee Bee
Mamee
Pola Snack
20 cent, 2-part Ice Popsicle
Chickadees
Ding Dang
Tora
Super Lemon/Orange/Cola/Apple/Grape
Fizzy Pop
Ring Pop
Push Pop
Funny bottle shaped thing with flavoured sugar inside
Hacks
Preserved Orange Peel
Cuttlefish
Haw Flakes (Shan Zha Bing)
Hiro Cakes
Bin Bin (the Chili Corn Tubal Snack?!?!)
Paddle Pop
Eskimo Pie
Double Decker Double Decker (tastes so good, tastes so
good...)
Chicken in a Biskit
KAKA Chicken Snack (?!?)
Apollo Chocolate (OMG how'd I forget)
Seaweed
Yam Yam
Hudson's Lime Sweets
Po Po Jelly
Qi Qi Tomato Sticks
Super Ring!
Macho Man
Polo Sweet
Jack & Jill Potato Chips
Nano Nano
Roller Coaster
Chupa Chups
Melody Pop
Robovites!
Miaow Miaow
Rabbit Sweet
Credit:
You can go make these snakes. I will buy from you
