Thursday, August 28, 2008

Nostalgic Food of the not so far past

These are some of the snacks that I had when i was still a kid, so if you are born around the same year as me, you should be able to recall some of these as well. Some of the pictures were koped from my friend's blog, but many were added on by me!

Hiro chocolate cake - nice thick chocolate layer covering a spongy cake inside.


Bee Bee Snacks - still can be found in NTUC, and last time a packet cost around 1ocents only!

KAKA! - Everyone kid's favourite! Inside every packet, comes along with a small plastic toy, and there's corn snacks inside.

Chocolate Wafer - I remember that the chocolate layer is those very oily kind, but as a child, you just eat it...

Calbee prawn crackers - definitly taste better than KAKA
Ding Dang Chocolate cover biscuits - This was my favorite when i was a kid, cos the packaging so cute ma... lol. But think of it now, i think it taste quite bad.

Hacks candy - I thought this is cough drops that taste very minty one, but how come my primary school teacher give to all of us last time? lol

Hacks candy - This one is grape flavour.


Kickapoo - This is made in Singapore fyi! I wonder who camp up with this name... it sounds like Kick - a - Poo - joy juice... oh crap.

Mamee! The more instant version of the instant Maggi mee! Need no cooking! I still like it until today... i think must be the MSG that makes it taste so nice...

And who still remember Mr Kiasu Burger? There was a craze over Mr kiasu that time, there were comics and sitcoms on Mr kiasu, and even Macdonalds came up with this burger! If Breadtalk was there back then, im sure they will come up with a kiasu pan!
And to satisfy that chocolate craving, sometimes after school the school kids will go to the "mama" shop to buy small packets of nutella to eat it... yes...just eat it as it is!
Retro packaging of Pepsi. you go to the kopitiam, and the pepsi comes in a glass bottle where you have to drink with a straw...


Ring Pop... This was available in the later years of my childhood, i never tried it before, and even as a kid, I dun like this idea.

Satay Sticks - A stick cost around 10cents - This is not exactly satay, but fish meat mixed with flour, then coated with some gluey thingy that is in fact quite yummy.

Tora! Something like the Ding Dang Candy, and is also have a toy inside.


White Rabbit Candy - This is just milk candy, very chewy and milky, and it is wrapped around with rice paper. im sure everyone remembers this!




And what else did i missed out?!??!
Now can you guess which year i was born?


19 comments:

red fir said...

You are very much younger than myself I believe, :) but it seems like the stuff we ate were the same.

Oh man where to get Hiro now??

Food Lover said...

Agree with Ice that you should be much younger than us. Thanks for the very interesting post! My favourites from the above are Hiro, prawn crackers, mamee and nutella! :)

Ice, you can try those old mama shop. I thought I still see them not too long ago. :P

FoodieGymmie said...

ice & foodlover - i belong to the earlier part of the 80s... are you all 70s?

i heard that sheng siong still got sell...

my favorite gotta be Hiro, ding dang and toro!

Anonymous said...

i miss them too!

LipTong

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Yvonne said...

my teacher used to give us the chocolate wafers for children's day in pri sch haha and yah lor got oily taste de!

i recently bought the ding dang chocolate in sheng siong for nostalgia's sake, but omg the chocolate tasted so bad haha!

i miss all the things u've posted but got quite a lot now still got sell! and u forgot pushpop!

we are around the same age! i belong to the "earlier part" of the "later part" of 80s haha~

FoodieGymmie said...

liptong - yeah... buy for u ringpop next time. lol.

yvonne - last time pri sch teacher very bad hor, but this kind of chocolate for us... lol. anyway i still see those choco wafers around... eeks. i guess it still taste as bad...

pushpop i think was around the ring pop period right, i think the idea is gross lo, i rmb kids eat halfwat then keep it in the container again... =|

yea, we belong to the 80s!

Alicia said...

Wow, those snacks are indeed nostalgic. I used to love eating the hiro chocolate cakes, bee bee and calbee. Too bad I don't like eating junk food anymore.

wenxiu said...

i remember those! but i havn't seen some before. hahahah which means you're older than me. i'm from the last of the 80s.

i don't believe ice is much older though. =P (it's a compliment!)

FoodieGymmie said...

alicia - wa! very good! healthy lifestyle =)

wenxiu - i guess u haf nv seen kaka and tora b4? and yea... den u r younger than me le... but tt doesnt make me old either! old is relative. lol

Anonymous said...

i like those small biscuits with colourful icing on top de!!!!!

red fir said...

wenxiu: Thanks for the compliment (if that was one. :P) ...but I'm really very much older than yourself. The last time I wore a school uniform was like 10 years ago? Whoops. :)

Get the idea?...

FoodieGymmie said...

jiaying - ah! those! now still got sell rite? but one small packets cost like $2 lor... last time so cheap... i rmb i used to eat the icing already den eat the biscuit.

ice - 16 + 10 = 26 got the idea :)

red fir said...

foodiegymmie: err...I think I wore school uniform in jc too... :O

FoodieGymmie said...

ice - woah... u r very frank! lol.

Anonymous said...

im just wanna cry seeing this, this got plenty sentimental value

FoodieGymmie said...

anon - ya man... i know what u mean.

Mimie said...

hey regarding this post, u know any toy tat is wrapped with newspaper. outside packaging is black and with a golden question marked on it? cost ard 50 cent. surprise gift inside. now no more selling anywhere, wondering if i can get to see the picture. miss it! do reply me at my blog. mimiepurr.blogspot.com

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