Random Food Musings.

My maid has taken a liking to flavoured corn snacks recently, and she has been buying a lot of Twisties.



Not that I mind. She always offers me a packet or 2 out of the big bag of 20's that she buys.

And I can't mention how good that snack suddenly tastes. It's like, when I was a young girl, I had a sweet/calorie-deprived childhood. I stayed with my Grandma then and being the very strict matriarch that she was (Iron Head of the household) she absolutely forbade ANY FORM of snacks, candy, chocolates and cold drinks/desserts.

So if my brother and I wanted to eat snacks, we had to sneak out to buy them secretly. I still remember the time when I went out secretly with my neighbour Denise in the late afternoon to buy ice-cream.

When I reached home, I relished every beautiful delicious drop in my bed, under my blanket.

Wonderful times, they were.

I remember the first potato chips that I ate was Twisties, and I liked it a lot. It became my staple secret snack for a while before I discovered Nachos and thought it tasted way better.

Told you I was deprived.

Anyway, my maid bought Corntos today and suddenly all these wonderful childhood memories flashed back to me. Of course it doesn't taste as good to me now. But when you're a child, any dessert/snack tastes good.


Like the real thing.

Corntos are like a 'fake' version of Twisties.

At first, it was Twisties who came up with that irregular-shaped and snappy flavoured corn snack in the market. Then afterwards, a brand from Malaysia, Corntos emerged.

It looks and tastes exactly like Twisties.

The only difference is probably that Corntos is 1/3 the size of Twisties.

Like, hello?
I don't, er, exactly see the point in making snacks so 'bite-sized' that you end up eating crumbs in a bag.

Corntos literally is flavoured crumbs in a bag.

It's a little irritating cos when you're doing something like watching TV or using the computer, you have to constantly reach into the bag to pick up some to eat. And in any event which you happen to pick up too many, they all drop onto the floor.

I suppose the correct way to eat Corntos is to:

1) Open
2) Tilt head back
3) Pour entire contents of bag into mouth.


I'm coming, baby.

Yeah, right.

No wonder they've recently come up with smaller packets. Gives a whole new meaning to 'snacks-on-the-go'.


Snacks on the go.

Well, I suppose the marketing department of Corntos in Malaysia decided that the only way they could differentiate Corntos from Twisties was to create extremely small ones.

Not good.

BIGGER IS ALWAYS BETTER.


A real, life-sized packet.

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