Nation of Biscuits
Biscuits, originally uploaded by Koosama.
“Filipinos” are sweet, crunchy biscuits with a hole in the middle. They’re available in plain, white chocolate, and dark chocolate varieties. The biscuits are manufactured by Kraft Foods Galletas, S.A, and sold in Spain and Portugal. The package says “Unete a la comunidad. www.filipinos.com.” And “Prueba filipinos despues de 1 hora en la nevera.” Translation: “Try filipinos after one hour in the fridge.”
Several years ago a politician tried to turn the biscuit into a patriotic issue, but it didn’t catch on. Like the periodic fuss about “filipina” turning up in dictionaries as “maid” or “servant”. Overheard in Rome: “My Mexican filipina is arriving tomorrow.”
During the Spanish colonial era, “filipino” meant a Spanish citizen born in the Philippines. Native Filipinos were called “indios”. Then Jose Rizal and the ilustrados in Europe started calling themselves “Filipinos”.
There are people out there who think we’re biscuits, servants, or Goliath’s tribe in the Old Testament. Clearly we have an image problem.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
April 16th, 2007 at 09:10
Hey you’re a filipina! therefore you’re a “maid” or “servant”
Hahahaha! Kidding =p
Yes, we do have an image problem; but some of our citizens (one of them aspires to be a congressman without even using the language of medium of the congress, english) are redeeming us and making the word Filipino regain its (if ever it was equivalent to) glory. You’re one of them, too. [naks bola! =p]
April 16th, 2007 at 10:11
I remember reading about this – probably in one of the Twisted books.
Aren’t these supposed to be brown outside and white inside?
April 16th, 2007 at 15:23
how about the filipina roulette?
–>three or four men are seated at a round table while a woman
(i dunno if she’s a filipina or what) performs blow jobs on all of them.
got this from fhm years ago.
i think a nation of biscuits is a lot better than a nation of prostitutes.
April 16th, 2007 at 15:46
Unless we are fine by it, this “Filipinos” biscuit brand could very well be our avatar (or so at least according to the above description) – sweet, crunchy and nothing in the inside. LOL!
Oh let them, I mean, we have been immortalized this far, Oxford dictionary, Constantine, Simpson’s, 30 Rocks, blah blah…come one come all!
Let’s face it, don’t we all need publicity? I’m sure we are ever ready to bear and grin it with our marked Krissy sweetness, Abunda crunchiness, and that celebrated Mirriam Q wave of clueless sophistication.
April 17th, 2007 at 01:13
In the latest episode of House, a flight attendant asked a passenger, “Malalagnat ka ba?” When the passenger answered in Korean she asked everyone on the plane if anybody else spoke the language. She didn’t really look Filipino, but at least the role she was playing was obviously Pinay, and she wasn’t a maid nor a prostitute. She did, however, look Korean, so I guess we’re not only biscuits or servants or Goliath’s tribe, but we’re also Koreans.
April 17th, 2007 at 04:24
The historian Agoncillo points out that the term “Filipino” was derogatory in its original usage, used by the peninsulares against the insulares.
April 17th, 2007 at 14:16
sana, ibenta yan dito. i bet it would be a huge hit.
April 18th, 2007 at 22:54
It looks good. I
April 19th, 2007 at 00:15
“Filipinos†are sweet, crunchy biscuits with a hole in the middle. They’re available in plain, white chocolate, and dark chocolate varieties.
I love these lines. So true (not just the biscuits). LOL.
April 24th, 2007 at 18:23
Filipinos.. from something to anything.