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
ito pala si lola Bats!!! :-D
ReplyDeletesarap naman ng kain ni lola
ReplyDeletekaya pala malulusog ang mga manok sa batangas
ReplyDeletelaki na ni julo!
ReplyDeleteyep, yan si lola :D ang ina ni daddy (ina talaga ang tawag ni daddy sa kanya). malakas pa yan... tulin maglakad sa pasyalan, may tungkod na nga lang
ReplyDeleteat hindi na bulol :D
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