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TALKING SNACK AROUND THE WORLD
Foodie adventures in the land of imported treats or the foreign food aisle of your local supermarket BY COCO QUIZON PHOTOS BY PAULINE MATA
nack-wise, being born Filipino isn’t necessarily drawing the short stick. We’ve all been blessed with a bounty of salty and sugary foodstuff that requires a conscious effort to not subsist on. Where would we be without the deliciousness of the Flat Top and its less rebonded counterpart Curly? Or the back-of-the-tongue salty goodness of Crackling? And the greatness of the mini-laundry bar-shaped Reese’s Peanut Butter cup of Pinas, Chocnut? The list goes on, yet as it does, it gets a little more played out. No disrespect to the Manila snack game, but sometimes the pool becomes so small and so decidedly western that a question must be asked: is this all there is? Or, even better and with more self-accountability, why am I settling for all these imitation white people snacks when there is a world of delicious opportunities? The trip to the supermarket is an enlarged version of our small trips to the pantry-slash-fridge. We open the door, see all the old things, close the door, then with a feeling of slight defeat, we reopen the fridge door and get “whatever.” Is just getting “whatever” good enough for our wanderlust-y millennial minds? Probably, but then life’s too short not to snack your way through it, so I, along with the support of Scout, decided to do just that.
1. Orion Tonk Choco Pop Cereal Stick (P49/box) 2. Kka Ba Kka Ba Banana Ice Cream (P25) 3. Orion Fresh Berry cake (P129/box) 4. Orion Choco Boy Mushroom biscuit (P42) 5. Haitai Chocolate Bar (P99/3 Bars) 6. Sausage snack (P12) 7. Lotte Milkis Carbonated Milk Drink (P25) 8. Nongshim Spicy Chicken Snack (P49/box) 9. Paldo Birae Soojeonggwa Cinnamon Drink (P26) 10. Nongshim Jo Chung Yoo Gwa Rice Crackers (P45)
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TASTING THE CULTURAL RAINBOW We caught all of Coco’s reactions (some good, some tragic) to these snacks on video. To watch it, head to scoutmag.ph!
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