Back in the old days when I was a kid in the late 70-es, I remember that we did not have various packaged snacks like we do now. Most of our snacks were fresh from the oven, except perhaps candies and chocolate bar. My Mom used to make us homemade snacks and cookies, some were wrapped in banana leaves, and they were made mostly from fresh cassavas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas, coconut, corn, and other crops you found in a traditional market, sold directly by the very farmer. How fresh could that be? Thus I grow up enjoying freshly made snacks, with less or even no added chemical flavors or preservatives.
I miss those traditional snacks. Slowly but surely, they are being replaced by modern snacks with various colors, forms, and ingredients in beautiful modern wrappings. Kids nowadays are attracted to these ones more than the traditional ones.
I’m just worried about the ingredients. The modern snacks expire much much longer, and parents and adults should have been more aware of what that means. But, hey, who doesn’t want to be modern? Food has to be efficient, easy, fast, and… er… modern.
I went to the office canteen this morning, and found my delicious-hard-to-find-steamed-cassavas-mixed-with-scraped-coconut-with-corn! Yummy! 
