6/8/08

for those of you that remember: ghetto snacks and hood treats



You're probably asking yourself “what in the hell are ‘ghetto snacks’?”
Good question:
A ghetto snack is the type of snack that costs you anywhere from a penny to a dollar. The kind of snack that you eat after you’ve gotten cottonmouth due to excessive chiefing. This post we'll spotlight Swedish Fish – inarguably, one of the ghettoist snacks of all time. The candy of choice for corner store patrons that suffer from the munchies or that hail from housing developments named after dead Presidents, Generals or long dead civil rights leaders, Swedish fish come individually wrapped or in a package, they go great with anything sour; Sour Cream and Onion potato chips, Sour Patch kids, even Hillary Clinton’s breath. Let's all pay homage to the ghetto candy that help give us cavities and that make our youth of today simultaneously hyper, lethargic and obese.

2 comments:

Butterrfly said...

I would agrue that swedish fish are definitively NOT ghetto snacks by the mere fact they have upgraded packaging and national distribution... They have made the coveted movie snack status for goodness sake. They are living the dream of the Evan's family. I have your ghetto candies.. those sour, tangy yet sweet nameless strips of red licorace sold in an open box at the register of any NYC bodega. Hello. health dept anyone? LOL!

Anonymous said...

Awww...sweedish fish memories.