hershey's bar

eversince i could remember, i've always loved the scent of a hershey's chocolate bar. i dunno what is it about its scent, but it never fails to bring a smile on my face everytime i see and smell one. whether in a store (particularly starmart, near my former dorm), at home or anywhere there was a hershey's bar, i would always pick it up and try to inhale all the chocolatey smell until none would be left...as if that was possible.

i remember my dad used to bring us boxes of hershey's bar with almonds almost everytime he came home from a ship inspection. the four of us kids would bring 1 each to school for snack everyday until it ran out.

my eldest brother, a natural-born bully, would palpate each bar and would try to count the almonds. usually, a bar had 5 to 6 almonds but there were some bars with 7 almonds. obviously, he would get that one. and i, being the youngest, would usually get the least number of almonds. but that wasn't a problem with me. i was happy smelling the bars.

but lately, i've noticed, the bars were wrapped in foil packs unlike before. i can't smell anything now except for the big ones which retained its original packaging. kainis!