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?
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September 4th, 2007 at 9:21 am
my tita used to bake yeast-based doughnuts when we were kids…i still haven’t found any doughnut now that matches her doughnuts …back then, life seemed simpler, and baguio was different : it smelled of pines everywhere; there was no traffic; people crossed only at pedestrian lanes; there were no overpasses nor ugly flyovers; session road wasn’t polluted; at 6pm, when the city hall siren would ring, everyone would stop to pray for a few seconds; our hills had trees not crowded houses
i’ll never probably be able to taste those yeast doughnuts again, the same way baguio will never be the way it was when i was a kid. but at least, i’m happy because i got to taste those doughnuts and i got to see baguio the way it was before
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September 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
I always feel much better after a 16-oz Brownie Temptation Blizzard from Dairy Queen.