A Hundred Days Of This - Day 9

 Just came back from ICA after picking up some clementines and broccoli. I could not avoid the cookies section and damn, nostalgia hit me like a brick, ufff! No matter how fancy your chocolate chip cookie is, it can never beat Hide & Seek. I know it is a lot of sugar and fat and blah blah blah but I would defend Jim Jam all my life. Do not even get me started on Bourbon! And all the packages in the instant noodles aisle do not even come close to Maggi. 

Usually I am not fussy about food (recently, I have been craving upma too) and love to try all the things that I can but today I was instantly transported back to a time when I was standing in Trinethra as a child and staring wide-eyed at the entire confectionery section. Can someone write to Cadbury asking them to revive the production of Bytes? If possible, Asha chocolates too. This is definitely a rabbit hole but I am glad I took this path.

I still remember my mother packing a 'special' bag for all the years I went on the school picnics. This bag was different from the regular bag I used to go to school with. It was very precious and filled with all the goodies that I would get to eat only once during the whole academic year. Candidates that constantly made an appearance were Uncle Chips - Spicy Treat (that green colour packet) and Milk Bikis cream biscuit with those creepy smiley faces. Unarguably one of the best food experience of my life.

Guess I will be dreaming about all these things tonight. Sigh.

It is a very short post today because I got an assignment to read and I do not want to be homesick. Can we time-travel to a point where the biggest problem in my life was cleaning up the stains on the canvas shoes with a piece of chalk 5 minutes before the assembly starts? Please? 

And that's Day 9 for you! 

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