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[Kabul Guy]

Been going to the Philippines for 20 years, and for 20 years they always tell me the same thing, "The chocolate from America tastes different". ......

It's a local cultural thing. Anything from afar is better than anything local. Foreign stuff costs more so should naturally be better, right?

They love long noses.

They love blue eyes.

They love white skin.

They love blond or fair hair.

They love foreign chocolate. A hint get the Hersey in brown wrapper, that is what the GI's were issued in the post war times and they associate it with American affluence and see it as a sign of wealth. (or so I have been told.).

Also women everywhere love it when you bring them anything from afar, it is not the value o the gift but the proof that you were thinking of them when you were away from them that matters.

[Simmer]

Anybody had an ATM refuse to dispense cash but your bank claims it did? I feel I'm in a no-win situation sadly.

So I needed cash in a small city in the Visayas. Each of three ATMs attached to banks said words along the lines of "cannot withdraw from this machine" - not terribly unusual for PI ATMS, though less common these days. The fourth stated "you have exceeded your daily limit". Sure enough, go online to my bank and one of the earlier 3 machines had told my bank it dispensed cash. I was with somebody at the time and he noticed no cash either, nor did I hear any of the clicking you normally hear as it counts the notes before dispensing them.

I raised a dispute with the bank. Wells Fargo. But the lady didn't give good vibes about the success of appealing. My word against a foreign ATM.

[Bushes]

Depends on your bag allowance. I usually fill one suitcase with the assorted from the big box stores. The Holloween bags. I stick with the simple chocolate ones and not the mixes that I myself do not like. If you are meeting some city girls, there are the nice Belgium chocolate gift boxes. For on site consumption, I get the plastic containers and bags of Barkthins.

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.

[Datiao]

What's the point? If you get assaulted again while you are wearing that watch, do you think the assaulters will leave that watch on you? LOL.

Me thinks you have plans of secretly recording some show inside a bar. Tsk tsk.

Have you been in a situation when you need to proof to validate your claims? Recording the incident is the best evidence. Filipinos are cowards, they won't confront you face to face but good at doing things behind your back without you knowing like in a crowd.

Whats so exciting at the bar that you may want to record?

[WestCoast1]

Been going to the Philippines for 20 years, and for 20 years they always tell me the same thing, "The chocolate from America tastes different". So I always take a few small boxes of Hawaiian Sun chocolates and they love it. They even love Hershey's. Don't try and understand the "why". Spend a few dollars. Party on.

Chocolate. One girl (no longer need to ask what pasalubong to bring, 6 years now the same thing) asks for "Ket cat bor if you can, my son love American chocolate". I used to toss one or two into the backpack for her, and she loved taking it to her son. Then one day in an SM grocery store in Phils, there the little KitKat bars were. Now I just pick them up in Phils (saving airline fuel, thank God). It gets the same smile and nawty ferver from her. A dollar's worth of wafer and chocolate: Who would have thunk it would make some brown honey dig her heels into my ass-end like a horse jockey? Party on Ket-cat-bor.

[Blanquiceleste]

Hi does anyone knows where I can buy a spy watch camera in Manila or Angeles? I was assaulted one night while in the street and I had no evidence if were to make a police report. Thanks.

What's the point? If you get assaulted again while you are wearing that watch, do you think the assaulters will leave that watch on you? LOL.

Me thinks you have plans of secretly recording some show inside a bar. Tsk tsk.

[PBtoCobra]

Makes no sense to you because you are a man. In this world, women love chocolate, whatever the colour, nationality, or age. It must be in their ADN since the big bang.

I guess there must be a special "chocolate" nerve in their brain connected straight to the G point.

Same as for guys: we have a special neuron that turns beer into fart.

Chocolate is relatively cheap in Europe and the US. And the girls ask, because the money that have needs to go on essentials for living not Chocolate. I recently went to Davao and my GF asked for some Cadbury's and I took lots, what she actually wanted was the smaller bars, not the bigger ones. She wanted to share them with the family. For me, the larger bars are easier to pack and not expensive.

For such a desired, and cheap product, why not make them happy by giving the gift of chocolate. It really does make them happy.

[Mr Enternational]

Been going to the Philippines for 20 years, and for 20 years they always tell me the same thing, "The chocolate from America tastes different".

That is due to all the artificial shit in it.

[NamasteParis]

Just tell them no. Especially if it is a chick that you have to give money to. Why do you have to give them money and buy them shit? Makes no sense to me.

Makes no sense to you because you are a man. In this world, women love chocolate, whatever the colour, nationality, or age. It must be in their ADN since the big bang.

I guess there must be a special "chocolate" nerve in their brain connected straight to the G point.

Same as for guys: we have a special neuron that turns beer into fart.

[Chocha Monger]

Just tell them no. Especially if it is a chick that you have to give money to. Why do you have to give them money and buy them shit? Makes no sense to me.

I don't know where you are going, but the Belgian guy in Angeles sells some damn good chocolate for cheap. If you insist on getting chocolate from the USA just get that assorted bag of small Hershey's at the grocery store and divide it up into ziploc bags for how many ever chicks you are giving it to. No idea why they act like there is no chocolate in the grocery store over there. My girlfriend in Colombia does the same thing.

I agree, Mr. E. There is no need to waste increasingly valuable luggage space on chocolates that are available at NAIA duty-free shops, and all supermarkets and pharmacies in the Philippines. The girls just want to brag to their friends that the "poriner" went through the trouble of toting chocolates all the way from abroad for them. I have given them chocolate from the Philippines and they cannot tell the difference between a Cadbury's chocolate from abroad and one manufactured locally. The same goes for Snickers minis and Hershey kisses.

Before, I fell for the requests from girlfriends. Then I realized that half of the time, they were feeding me the chocolate because they did not want to eat it alone and get fat. It is bad enough that finding a good gym to workout in most areas is a challenge, the last thing I need is a girl shoving chocolates into my mouth in bed between copulatory bouts. I finally just said no to bringing chocolates. When I do give chocolates, I buy them locally and no one ever refuses them. As you said, girls that require cash compensation for their company should not be asking for imported chocolates. They can purchase that with their earnings or let their trike driver boyfriends get it for them. LOL! Most of the time, the Pinoy boyfriends are the ones making the girls pester mongers to bring that junk anyway.

I had one girlfriend's brother ask me to bring him the latest iPhone and he would pay me for it. Yeah, sure! He was going to pay me the 50 K pesos or so that it would cost to buy one that was unlocked without a contract. LOL! I just laughed at the idea. I have even been asked to bring back auto parts and appliances from abroad. It is best to just say, no! Before the airlines started charging extortionate baggage fees, Filipinos and Central Americans used show up at check-in with freight that looked like it belonged on a cargo jet. Guys who indulge their requests to import goods will eventually need a fork truck to load their suitcases into the cargo bay. LOL!

[Mr Hawaii]

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.

Been going to the Philippines for 20 years, and for 20 years they always tell me the same thing, "The chocolate from America tastes different". So I always take a few small boxes of Hawaiian Sun chocolates and they love it. They even love Hershey's. Don't try and understand the "why". Spend a few dollars. Party on.

[Mr Enternational]

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.

Just tell them no. Especially if it is a chick that you have to give money to. Why do you have to give them money and buy them shit? Makes no sense to me.

I don't know where you are going, but the Belgian guy in Angeles sells some damn good chocolate for cheap. If you insist on getting chocolate from the USA just get that assorted bag of small Hershey's at the grocery store and divide it up into ziploc bags for how many ever chicks you are giving it to. No idea why they act like there is no chocolate in the grocery store over there. My girlfriend in Colombia does the same thing.

[EihTooms]

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.

Bring chocolate from regional or exclusively USA candy shops. See's Candy comes to mind. Not sure, but I don't think there is a See's Candy shop anywhere in Asia. In fact, after living in Thailand for several years, a box of See's Candy chocolates sounds pretty damn good to me right now, too! Those chocolate butterscotch squares are fantastic.

[Datiao]

Hi does anyone knows where I can buy a spy watch camera in Manila or Angeles? I was assaulted one night while in the street and I had no evidence if were to make a police report. Thanks.

[Goferring]

I have gotten several requests from pinays for chocolates when they visit me. WTF. What are they looking for, a handful of hershey kisses or something else? Help me because if I have to get something only available in the states I have to act quickly.

Some would argue that gifts are never required but what ever makes you feel good. .

The fresh girls will be looking for a small sign that you were thinking of them while back home and love only them. Yes a bag of chocolates from home works.

The hardened girls will be asking for a new iPhone which is totally unrequired.

Keep the candy for the newbies and cold cash for the old pros. It's what they both want. No need to sweet talk a sure thing. . . Remember Julia Roberts explaining to Richard Gere that he was paying for a sure thing in Pretty Woman 😁. ?