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The dancing lady in the red dress emoji made us remember all our fun favourite childhood snacks and games

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A woman in a red dress dances the Flamenco like our favourite emjoi
A woman in a red dress dances the Flamenco like our favourite emjoi

Celebration! It's going to be lit! Joy!

The emoji of the lady with a red dress dancing is a popular emoji to use, but upon closer inspection it gave us flashbacks of the dancing lady on the corn chips packet called La Bamba.

This caused a flood of nostalgia about much loved goodies from our past so we asked the team to share other favourite snacks and games when we were growing up. This is what we came up with: 

1. La Bamba

The unforgettable lady with a red dress sold the small packet of corn chips. And even though the picture thrilled, the taste of the actual chips was even better.

This was an all-time popular snack and is attached to so many of our fond childhood memories. The chips came in two main flavours, chicken herb and spice and beef and it was not uncommon to lick the crumbs and dust off our fingers.

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2. Kreoles

Remember these? The fish flavoured corn chip had such an offensive smell but were so very addictive. In hindsight, the name of the chips is not PC at all.

3. Holy Moleys

These chocolate covered biscuits in the little packets were a good snack. Sigh, we also miss them.

4. Tazos

You'd find them inside your Simba chips packet with a ribbon running down the middle. Our best was collecting the Pokémon themed discs and constantly swapped them out with friends to try and collect them all. 

But collecting the tazos wasn't always too successful because Simba chips were seen as the ‘expensive’ chips back then. And it was hard to part with your pocket money to buy a packet.

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5. Hula Hoops

This is the one of the most classic childhood toys. It was fun swirling the hula hoop around the waist, but you were really a legend if you could swirl it from the hips, up to the neck and all the way up to your wrist without it falling. What other piece of plastic could give you such a sense of accomplishment?

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6. Video games

Way before the noise of PlayStation 4, when PS2 was still a luxury, there were 100 in 1 cartridge games. We couldn’t get enough.

7. Tamagotchis

How many pets are resting in peace?

8. uM’gusha

There are so many variations of what this game was called: uM’gusha or uMshinxi or Chinese jump rope. This game was played with old cut up pantyhose tied together in a continuous circle. Two people would hold opposite ends while one skipped in the middle. Each level got harder as the string was moved higher up the body.

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Blikkies

Played by two teams, one team would throw a ball at the stacked tins while the other dodged the other team and built up the fallen tins. This game was the real reason we would get home after the street lights were on.

Ah, when can we have our childhoods back please? 

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