skyflakes

oh my god! these crackers are the best thing i've ever eaten! i got them at world market, and admit that i mainly got them because of the cool vintage look tin. but they taste like heaven! they are like some magical combo of saltines and biscuits.

here's a food review from mcsweeney's:

If you are not Filipino (and it is likely that you are, indeed, not), then SkyFlakes Crackers—a product of the Philippines easily available in your local Asian market—are new to you. Unless, of course, you have spent ample amounts of time gallivanting with Filipinos, in which case you are already intimate with SkyFlakes Crackers and do not need me to tell you that they taste as if they are handmade by the cherubim and baked in heaven's own oven.

But first let me discuss the tin. SkyFlakes Crackers are packed in a square metal tin with a round cut-out top that you must pry open with a butter knife or other similar tool. Crafty, ruffled-hair types who wear vintage clothing will be drawn to the tin because of its kitschy red, white, blue, and yellow motif and its zippy 1950s-style font. They will immediately sense the tin's potential as a conversational centerpiece, photographic subject, and/or future receptacle for items such as calculators, pens, erasers, and paper clips. They will be amused by the exterior copy, part of which reads, "SkyFlakes Crackers in milk are favorite snacks of the youngsters." It will remind them of Japanese stationery that says things like "Moon glows be my friend and flowers love. Thank you!" There is another packaging style, but it is typical cardboard packaging that is not remarkable.

Within the tin, the crackers are wrapped in packs of three, each of which is perforated so as to make them easy to snap off into three smaller crackers, making a total of nine. Isn't that something? They are unsalted, flaky, and crisp yet somehow tender. I think this is owed entirely to the use of vegetable shortening and coconut oil. Whatever the case, the result is more than any eater of snacks can legitimately demand in a cracker. You should buy some.

apparently there's also some hipster band called the skyflakes, but who cares???? on the company's website there is a career section! this might replace my dream to someday work at starbucks.