Snack Scoop: Blast from the past * Crispy Chocolate with Rice crisps *

Lately, I was browsing the snack shelves in NTUC Fairprice supermarket (again!) and came across something I haven't eaten in decades. Crispy Rice Crisps Chocolate! For those not in the know, this was sold here long before Nestle Crunch reached Singaporean shores. The new packaging looks like so:


More pics of the chocolate itself

Packaging has changed slightly with the times (no blue dinosaur in the old days). Somehow to me, it's not just an ordinary chocolate but a bite of nostalgia that makes me reminisce about my younger days. In those days when Singapore wasn't that affluent and didn't have the huge range of chocolate and sweets we have these days. You could probably define it as 25 BC (25 years Before Candy-Empire). For me, several other sweets and snacks also defined that era in the eighties: Van Houten Milk Chocolate Bar (Thin chocolate bar with a yellow label, costs 20 cents), Kandos Chocolate (thin rectangle pieces with diamond shaped patterns wrapped in multi coloured labels that truthfully didn't taste good but we didn't have many choices in the old days), Ka Ka (20 cents pack of corn puffs that came in different flavours (i recall chicken, coconut and cocoa) that had a toy in the packet to entice us little kids. 


Taste Verdict : Still like the taste *LOL*, old habits die hard
Price: S$1.95 for a pack of 10 (100g), also available in larger pack and as a bigger bar (S$0.80)

Where to get: NTUC Fairprice and other supermarkets