They dont make snacks like they use to
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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...
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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 SweetCredit:
They Don't Make Snacks Like They Used to... [ FB group]
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往事�能回味....................
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some still can find in jb
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Some still around.
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at 3 times the price
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Originally posted by FireIce:
往事�能回味....................
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Originally posted by FireIce:
at 3 times the price
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Miss a lot of these stuffs.
To those interested, they take some of these stuffs out of schools because they were deemed unhealthy food.
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Guess you can't talk moderation to kids.
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They dun do these type of snack anymore is because they want to tell you that you are old already. And most are melamine tainted. Try JCO donuts or Obama burger ya
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most of these snacks can be bought at mama shop.
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Ya
I remeber i use to buy the long ice stick with many colours for 15 or 20 cents after cycling with friends at the voiddeck
Last time after school i will buy the green coloured icecream with white vanilla inside for 60 cents
now cannot find liao
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Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:
Ya
I remeber i use to buy the long ice stick with many colours for 15 or 20 cents after cycling with friends at the voiddeck
Last time after school i will buy the green coloured icecream with white vanilla inside for 60 cents
now cannot find liao
The first one, now some malay aunties living on the HDB first/second floor will sell if you know where to look for them.
The second one still got, but now $1+ already
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i agree.
remember last time opposite my block of flats (opposite the car park :P) there was this row of provision shops. I always buy the ice popsicle or the Gotcha ice cream. those were the days man XD
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Originally posted by motoway:
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 SweetCredit:
They Don't Make Snacks Like They Used to... [ FB group]
You can go make these snakes. I will buy from you -
Seaweed rocks!
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where's my KAKA?!??!!
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Originally posted by sand king:
Seaweed rocks!
Actually thinking back, seaweed at 10 cents per piece isnt exactly what i would call cheap. -
i miss hiro cake
i still see it at those old skool �货店..... -
simi lai eh.
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
simi lai eh.