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PJ De Best's avatar

Beautifully told. The sari-sari store isn’t just commerce β€” it’s culture in motion.

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Pasta Garcia's avatar

thank youfor reading, PJ! πŸ˜πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­

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βœ©βΊβ‚Šβœ©β˜½β‹† π–π–†π–Ÿπ–Šπ–†π–—π–Šπ–‘π–‘π–† β‹†β˜Ύβœ©βΊβ‚Šβœ©'s avatar

This smells like my childhood! Going to the Sari Sari to get "the good coke in the glass bottle". Candies. Ice candy. I miss my trips to the Philippines, the US could never lol.

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Pasta Garcia's avatar

gworl PERIODT!

ice candies! the orange tang and Milo flavored ones are elite in my book 🀀

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βœ©βΊβ‚Šβœ©β˜½β‹† π–π–†π–Ÿπ–Šπ–†π–—π–Šπ–‘π–‘π–† β‹†β˜Ύβœ©βΊβ‚Šβœ©'s avatar

ORANGE TANGGGGGGG. OMG I haven’t heard that in such a long time!! I’ve only had the coconut ones, now I feel like I’m missing out lol! I keep trying to ask my mom how to make them and she keeps changing her recipe and it’s driving me crazy lol.

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Pasta Garcia's avatar

you can make ice candies out of any deink flavor! 😍 I'd prolly make a mess and waste a lot before i get to make a propwr one but OMG YOU SHOULD TRY ORANGE TANG ICE CANDIES BAHAHA 😍🀀

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Barb Natividad πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ's avatar

My grandparents rented a part of their house to a sari-sari store. As far as I know it’s still there.

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Pasta Garcia's avatar

No way! Our ancestral home has a spot in the front dedicated to being a sari-sari store. It used to be so alive. But since my grandparents are no longer around, it's now just a carcass of a sari-sari store. Makes for a good village ghost story tho πŸ‘»

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