They stop making the best ones

I was eating the Kelloggs special K Breakfast Cereal this morning. I left it in milk too long before I was finally able to eat it and it smelt and tasted just like "Bonny Mix", the porridge in the tin, we used to get back in India around the early 1990s. I always will wonder why they stopped making it. Personally, I think it was a smash product, so tasty, my god! I used to remember Goldilocks whenever I ate it (Goldilocks eats the three bear's porridge, I eat Bonny mix porridge, get the connection?!, duh!)

So anyway, that triggered this post. I always maintained a list of things that I loved, which they stopped making in India. And whenever I crib to someone about how they stop making the best things, voila! I have a list ready to be read out. Here it is for the benefit of the world.

-Atari (I looooooooooooovvved this coconut-chocolate, they stopped making it around the time I was in my IV standard. Years and years later, I found similar (but definitely less) joy in eating "Almond Joy" )

-Fudgy (Loved both the chocolate and the He-Man stickers that came with it ;) They were pasted all over the walls and the fan regulator plates (come on, you know what I mean, those white plates on which sat a regulator, with which you could control the speed of the fan) in my home back in Hyd ;) One can find them even today @ our old place!! )

-Bonny Mix

-Bournvita biscuits ( Remote cousin to the chocolate chip cookie, this one is a chocolate cookie, used to taste sooo good...yumm! I miss it even now. Nothing comes close to it even today)

-Dollops Ice cream (Don't know if they make it yet, haven't seen it in a while)

That is my list. This is what I reel over and over again when I complain;) If you have any favourites that they stopped making, drop me a word:)

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Hi Anonymous:

I think they still make Melody, albeit the taste isn't the same. Agree on the Campco and the Nutrine ones.

Kaumudi. Yeah Soma, I completely forgot, I used to LOVE it.

Elastic!!!

I was having lunch with some of my friends from High School one Friday a couple months back, and I asked them if they remembered the "Elastic" game. Without spoiling the fun (and because I tried to explain this game to Subhash, with no success), I will simply say that its a game you play with human poles hoisting a band of elastic around them and you jumping up and down the two edges of it, skillfully. Initially the band is at the ankles, then as you display more skill, it gets tougher, and the band goes higher.

I was asking them if they wanted to play it sometime, and rightly so, they were a little hesitant;)

I remember, we were MAD about that game, any 5 minutes of spare time, would be consumed thus:

1)Setting up human poles (neighbor's kids etc) (1 min)
2) If not possible, even try to make do with the "modas" at home.
3)Play for the rest of the 4 mins;)

I think I could easily reach level 2 in 5 minutes.

The "Elastic" band of course would have to be of good quality. Supple, and stretchy ones were my favorite;) But I would adjust with anything. So many lunch hours spent on it!! So much so that the teachers started checking our bags and throwing out the bands aghast at the horror of this dangerous game!!

Fun!!

What a tea!

Whenever I visit our break rooms I wonder about something. We have a stack of teas in one corner. And these are all different kinds of teas. Some of them are really out of place. Like for example - "Cozy Chamomile" - For calming moments, and something else for relaxing moments etc etc etc. What would that mean in an office break room? Drink this and have a good sleep back in your cube?? (Yeah they are all caffeine free too, for better sleep;) )

05/31/2007

One of my friends was telling me the other day about this post, that the intention about having tea for calming moments is to just let employees relax in the middle of a hectic day. I was trying to remember real hard that there was one of them teas that definitely didn't mean relax;) Today I saw it. Its called "Sweet Dreams". Wow! ;)