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Brown on the outside, white on the inside? A friend brought some of these cookies last night, and mentioned that it was bought from Spain. The cookies actually taste good. I actually wanted to say “Filipinos taste good!”, but maaan could that get misunderstood SO easily… I’d have to wonder whatever possessed Nabisco/Artiach to name these cookies ‘Filipinos‘ though? Really, it’s purely curiosity for me at the moment. The version you see in the picture is the white chocolate flavored variant. It’s white on the outside, brown on the inside. Apparently, the original version was actually white shortbread on the inside, dark brown chocolate on the outside. And it’s got a hole in the middle. Are they trying to say something? Can you just imagine the kind of weird sentences one can come up with cookies named like this? I Googled a bit and found a few articles about the naming of these cookies, but none so far that really explains the logic behind it. According to an excerpt from this page, my country once staged a diplomatic protest on its naming (scroll down to ‘Bitter Chocolate’, but the link on it doesn’t work). This PDF-to-HTML-converted page mentions a few food products with suspicious names, Filipinos being one of them. A columnist from the Phil. Daily Inquirer, on the other hand, questions the big uproar over the naming, when we have kids enjoying candies with fairly vulgar sounding names. What do you think?
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