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Halo Halo

1) Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert made of layers of ingredients like shaved ice, evaporated milk, and fruits. Each layer represents different cultures that influenced the Philippines like Chinese red beans, Spanish leche flan, and American shaved ice. 2) While the Philippines originally had its own culture and rules under datus and sultans, it adapted and incorporated foreign influences rather than resisting them. This enriched Filipino culture over time as new flavors were added to halo-halo and other traditions. 3) Eating halo-halo is like having a sweet history lesson, as it reminds people how the Philippines survived challenges in the past and developed a rich culture through adaptations over generations

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Halo Halo

1) Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert made of layers of ingredients like shaved ice, evaporated milk, and fruits. Each layer represents different cultures that influenced the Philippines like Chinese red beans, Spanish leche flan, and American shaved ice. 2) While the Philippines originally had its own culture and rules under datus and sultans, it adapted and incorporated foreign influences rather than resisting them. This enriched Filipino culture over time as new flavors were added to halo-halo and other traditions. 3) Eating halo-halo is like having a sweet history lesson, as it reminds people how the Philippines survived challenges in the past and developed a rich culture through adaptations over generations

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Mirko Alessandro C.

Uy August 24, 2010


2010-04284/ BS Geology/ College of Science Exposition
English 1/WFR 420 words

Halo-halo: A Sweet Overview to Our History

Temperature as of the moment: 30 degrees Celsius. I would love to have cold

refreshment that would chill my bones. A cool, refreshing halo-halo will do.

Halo-halo. A lovable drug. My best friend when I’m hot. My comfort food when

I’m sad. My ultimate sin when I’m thirsty (it makes you thirstier even more, trust me). My

savior when I’m bullied.

I was almost done eating my halo-halo when a boy was bullying me. I got so

pissed that I threw the remaining contents to his face. I ran away. But I went back to get

my bike. Everyone was shocked. Including me. I can’t believe it. Me, throwing the most

delicious part of my halo-halo: melted ice and milk and sugar and all that. That is the

worst thing you could ever do to a halo-halo. The boy is not even worth it.

Literally meaning “mix-mix”, halo-halo, is a mixture of different ingredients.

Served in a tall glass, where you can see every layer of different colored goodness

topped with smoking ice partially melted with milk, it would sure seal your satisfying

meal with a smack.

But don’t you know that this delicious work of art tells a lot about our history? I

don’t mean that this halo-halo would just start talking about our history. You might freak

out and shout at the top of your lungs. I might as well do the talking. Looking at every

layer of our halo-halo, we would see different cultures- cultures that became part of the

Philippine history, our history. You would taste the red beans from China, garbanzos
from India, leche flan from Spain, and of course, the shaved ice from America. These

layers represent the modifications our culture has gone through thru the influence of

different cultures especially those which have colonized us. But before these cultures

came, we had our own. We had our own government, art, and even rules. We have our

sense of organization.

Why do we have to apply their cultures and beliefs when we have our own? We

have our datus and sultans to rule us but we still comply with them. Is it because we are

born to adapt and incorporate other cultures to ours? Instead of fighting, we chose to

adapt, to obey. Instead of going against the flow, we went with the flow. Instead of

violence, we chose obedience.

And because of this nature, our culture progressed and became even richer.

More colonization happened, more influence introduced, more foreign essence was

brought to our culture. As new influences come to our country, we welcome it with all

our heart. We add it to our own. Thus, our culture continued on expanding.

As for our halo-halo, as new flavors come in, it just becomes richer and richer. It

continues to remind us of our history, how we survived the different obstacles we

encountered in the past, how rich our culture is due to these happenings. So every time

you eat a halo-halo, it’s like having history for dessert but with a sweet and sumptuous

twist.

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