Skyflakes
One of the more famous Philippine exports is Skyflakes , a wheat-based, salty cracker. It is one of my emergency food items: I typically have some stocked at home and in my handbag in case I become hungry (like in traffic jams). When there's no electricity and it's impractical to cook rice (because the leftover would spoil), I'd open a pack of Skyflakes and generously coat each cracker with Cheez Whiz... if I had a bottle of it within reach. Anyway, each time I spent more than two weeks outside the Philippines, I'd be elated to see boxes of Skyflakes inside Asian stores (particularly when in I was Australia and in the USA). Back then, I took it as a sign of homesickness. When I moved to California, I didn't miss Skyflakes because Mommy made sure that there's a steady supply in the house. Skyflakes is embedded in Filipino gastronomy as a snack, a panawid-gutom , that anyone who reacts positively upon seeing Skyflakes outside the Philippines must have spe
waaaah! MISS KO NA KAUNG LAHAT! huhuhu! haay.. those were the days.. huhuhu! =(
ReplyDeleteWag ka malungkot... makakabisita ka naman sa IRRI kapag gusto mo e. :D At nasa US ka na naman, maganda din naman kinalalagyan mo dyan. Sabi pala ni Ate Lucy tumaba ka na daw, kahit konti.
ReplyDeletewaah ate lucy! nkita nila pics ko?? nkakahiya nman.. hihi! di bale pgblik ko n lng dyan sa phil bibisita ako sa IRRI.. babawi ako sa kainan.. ahahaha! =)
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