The Taste of My Childhood
So tonight, after having dinner with some friends to celebrate/commiserate the CAO results(through which I will be studying Science[maths, bio, chem and experimental physics] in Maynooth) we stopped in a random little shop on Grafton street, and I was bought a packet of Zappers.
For those of you who don’t know, Zappers are little chewing gums covered in a sour hard candy outer shell, and although the sourness wears off in seconds, they’re some brilliant seconds.
While sitting at my desk finishing them off I was thinking back to my childhood and all the sweets and how those carefree, wind-in-the-hair days of my youth with the Golfballs, Jawbreakers, Gobstoppers, Double-Dips, and hell even the Frosties are now long behind me.
And it was at this moment that it really hit me, I had for all intents and purposes ‘grown up’, I’m finished with Primary and Secondary school, and I’m going to University. It’s scary how you have these moments of realisation over something as silly as a sweet, but I guess it really is the little things that make the most difference.
[...] Nothing wrong with still liking sweets in your older years. You should have seen the amount of Natural Confectionary Company jellies the Clubs and Socs office went through last year when they were 2 for 1… [...]
yeah, Cheryl has loved them too for years and was delighted when i bought her a cash and carry box of them with about 25 packets in it =D