WHAT’s your happy food? You know, the food that brings so much sunshine into your day with just a few bites, the food that you get excited about as it’s being set down in front of you, the food that you’d do cartwheels with. Let’s call happy food as the food that makes you want to jump around when you know you’re having it.
And more than what these happy foods are, I wonder why and how they make us happy. Imagine a bowl of piping hot champorado with tuyo flakes, while the rain rages outside. Seems like a good setting doesn’t it? The warm, sticky texture of the rice and sweetness of the chocolate envelop me in a cocoon of comfort, but it’s not necessarily my happy food. But that doesn’t mean comfort food can’t be happy food!
What makes happy food happy? Could it be the playful form it can take, like popsicles and licorice strings? Could it be that the food has inherent properties that are stimulating, like coffee and chocolate? Could it be that certain foods are associated with happy times in one’s life? For example, one of my happy food choices would be avocado ice candy because it reminds me of these same treats my Mom made when I was a kid. I feel like a jolly little kid again.
Happy food for me would also be: monggo ice candy, orange-flavored popsicles, pizza with lots of pepperoni, green M&Ms, hot pan de sal with Milo powder, nachos with salsa. Yeah! I’m smiling just thinking about them. Having a serving of any of these delicious goodies will definitely make my day much brighter.
What would your happy food be?
December 17th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
bro, masarap talaga yang toyo-mansi na sawsawan lalo na sa pritong tilapia.
October 20th, 2007 at 1:55 am
happy food:) mango ice cream sold at the side of the road with mamang sorbetero brings back memories of life in the good ol’ simple days… ice candy especially when it’s summer. . . barbecue with hanging rice and toyomansi with sili mmmm yummy. . .
my mom’s nilagang baboy. . .sinugbang isda especially when you eat it by the beach wow!
September 16th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I brought two packs of popcorn here in the place where I work in Afghanistan. It is my happy food for it reminds me of my children and their friends, my brothers and sisters and their families and other friends. This is what I prepare for them when they visit my family. To my surprise, it was also my friend’s (a Pakistani) happy food. I tell you, just watching her eat those popcorns was enough for me.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
my comfort food and happy food is baconwaffles!!!!!!!!!! yum yum i love them!!!! and tacos!!!!!! all from pancake house of course!!!!
September 8th, 2007 at 3:40 am
Happy Food…hmmm that’s a lot. Chocolate in whatever form tops my list -hot choco with matching pan de sal), Bar None, truffles, Choco Chip Cookies, Choco Muffins, choco honey dipped donuts… I am missing happy foods that can only be found in the Phils… Jollibee’s spaghetti, Max’s chicken, Razo’s halo-halo, broas, uraro, polvoron, and most especially, Tinolang Manok on a rainy day! Yummy!