Timeless Asian Snacks: Best Excuses for Your Candy Cravings

The Cornell Daily Sun

Chinese kids didn’t celebrate Halloween when I grew up (most of them still don’t), so God realized we needed some other excuse to eat candy. My frugal parents, and their parents before them, saved all their candy boxes to store sewing supplies, ensuring that the memories associated with those candies would last many generations.Back in the 70s, chocolate was a luxury. I still remember what my dad told me: my grandmother brought home a box of chocolate candy that her cousin from Taiwan had brought her during a recent visit, so my dad and his brother pledged to each other that they would only take one candy each week. The pledge was broken, as you might expect, and you can imagine my grandmother’s dismay when she opened the box and saw the bare bottom.
Flash forward forty years: kids today are spoiled in so many different ways, while the parents are on the march against tooth decay and picky eaters. My house never had a snack box, though many of my classmates houses did, so I began to cherish all of the snacks I could lay my hands on. The snacks listed below are enjoyed universally: I have yet to encounter anyone who doesn’t have a big life story behind these candies. They also have something in common: kids have a good excuse to eat them!



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