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March 9, 2007
white rabbit candy
i had horribly black teeth as a kid. so much so, that when the exasperated dentist asked me "what colour should teeth be?", i nonchalantly answered him "black and white"
one day, as the four year old me was chewing these yummy white rabbit candies, i asked my mother and aunties, "why they put rabbit on this sweet wrapping ah? what has it got to do with rabbits?"
they toot-tooted me as if i should know better, and said "it's rabbit's milk what!"
shocked, my chewing stopped. aghast, my compassionate self stared at my aunts.
then my mum muttered under her breath "tsk tsk, poor mother rabbit, give milk to make sweets but not enough milk to feed her babies"
horrified, i imagined a somalia of baby rabbits - a sad population of skinny, starving, hollow looking skeletal baby rabbits with beady black eyes staring helplessly at their mother while she sends her milk off to some sweet factory.
from that second onwards, i stopped eating white rabbit candies. even after my aunts told me it wasn't made from rabbit's milk, that they were kidding around, even after they pointed the ingredients printed on the package out to me - i didn't believe. and i didn't eat them for quite a while. rabbits printed on the wrapper clearly meant to me, at that impressionable age, that they were part of the ingredient!!!!
of course, that belief eroded with age, but my love for those sweets remain. when i was back in kk for cny, i stole an entire packet just so i could have them all to myself. and as i was popping the candies one after another into my mouth, i was suddenly reminded of this little memory.
posted by nyx at March 9, 2007 9:33 PM
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This white rabbit candy brings me a lot of memory of my childhood! I like to eat too last time. You are from Kota Kinabalu?
Posted by: irenelim at March 9, 2007 10:49 PM
ha ha ha ......
Posted by: deslai at March 10, 2007 9:17 AM
I forgot all about this candy. So good! Come on over and check out my fun, all-inclusive ode to "eating bunnies" post, which includes this item.
Posted by: Sheri at April 4, 2007 7:59 AM
Sheri wud u b my bunny so i cud eat u?
Posted by: -?- at April 4, 2007 9:48 AM
um... you're not suppose to eat bunnies. you're suppose to, um...
nvm.
*innocent*
Posted by: nyx at April 4, 2007 9:51 AM
since u r all *innocent*,
u wudnt know wot i actually meant by wanting to 'eat' her eh?
very the innocent woh.
Posted by: -?- at April 4, 2007 10:18 AM
i am supa dupa innocent and all that is pure
*beam*
Posted by: nyx at April 4, 2007 10:47 AM
In a related note; the White Rabbit candy is wrapped with a bit of edible paper. The type that dissolves in your mouth.
Do any of you know what this particular type of paper called?
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Azmeen at April 4, 2007 1:00 PM
Azmeen cow pee
Posted by: -?- at April 4, 2007 1:39 PM
...........
Posted by: nyx at April 4, 2007 2:05 PM
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