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Kuwentong Peyups – The superpowers of Choc Nut

Dennis Gorecho by Dennis Gorecho
November 12, 2021
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TO be or nut to be, Choc Nut is the answer.

Eating Choc Nut usually brings back childhood memories since many Filipinos grew up eating this chocolate-peanut candy.

We enjoy every bite of Choc Nut’s unique and rich taste of ground peanuts, milk powder, cocoa, and sugar.

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Do not underestimate the superpowers of peanuts.

When it comes to keeping your mind sharp, peanuts may hold the key.

Choc Nut was my power food as I was traversing the path of legal education.

As Law students, we immersed ourselves in law books and cases, faced terror professors, pored through volumes and pages of SCRAs, lined up for photocopying at the law library, hurried through classes, reviewed and crammed through lessons, and survived recitations.

My law school years were indeed difficult moments, but the best and memorable times were moments spent with those who shared the same experiences.

Patience was a virtue in studying at the law library but the daily supply of Paciencia biscuits and Choc Nut made the ordeal sustainable for me and my classmates.

Peanuts contain a wealth of benefits for the brain.

Resveratrol, (part of a group of compounds called polyphenols), found in peanuts, is believed to cause improved cognitive abilities and short-term memory,  increased verbal fluency (the ability to connect and retrieve words), and enhanced processing speed (the ability to take in and respond to new information). 

A challenge in reading cases is staying awake.  The unsaturated fat in peanuts gives one energy, which can help a person to remain alert and to ward off fatigue and sleepiness.

Polyphenols penetrate the area of the brain involved in learning and memory, increase blood flow to the brain (which improves cognition), and have the potential to enhance mood (which may also help to reduce depression.)

I preferred Choc Nut basically for economic reasons as it was within my budget, unlike the imported chocolates by Hershey’s and Cadbury.  

  During the  2017 oathtaking of the trustees and officers of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines (MARLAWPh) before Vice President Leni Robredo, I became curious about the presence of Choc Nut as snacks in the meeting room.

I was then told that it was also her favorite refreshment.  

Her seatmate while she was a congresswoman was from Cavite, where the Choc Nut factory is located.  She was given a year-long supply of Choc Nut.

To adhere to the theme of simplicity, Choc Nut was also served as one of the snacks  during VP Leni’s inauguration in 2016 along with buchi (rice balls), sotanghon, pandesal, maja blanca, pichi-pichi

  The iconic delicacy was likewise featured on the Netflix anime Trese series

The large nearly palm-sized Choc Nut is a bribe or a gift, from the show’s main character  Alexandra  Trese to a sewer-dwelling creature named Nuno.

In Filipino culture, the nuno sa punso is a dwarf-like nature spirit that lives in an anthill or termite mound. He is a goblin easily angered that will harm those who damage or disturb his mound and will seek retribution.

Nunos may also inhabit places such as underneath large rocks, trees, riverbanks, caves, or a backyard.

Instead of living in a mound, Nuno in Trese is more urban, who lives in the sewers, often appearing from under a manhole cover to talk to Alexandra.

“Tabi-Tabi po” is a polite way of saying “excuse me” or “pardon me” which is uttered as a form of respect to supernatural beings like the nuno when entering an unfamiliar place.

If one wants to get a favor or doesn’t want an earth elemental to bother him,  he must give the entity something sweet.

Trese bribed Nuno with the chocolate-peanut candy to acquire information related to her case.

Trese investigates the occult cases in Metro Manila. The Filipino mythical creatures live hidden among the human population where they either adapt or cause chaos. 

In this era of fake news and historical revisionism, perhaps Choc Nut is the answer.

 

( Peyups is the monicker of the University of the Philippines. Atty. Dennis R. Gorecho heads the seafarers’ division of the Sapalo Velez Bundang Bulilan law offices. For comments, email info@sapalovelez.com, or call 09175025808 or 09088665786).

 

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ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO had two of Eraserheads band members as his roommates while studying at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He was a staff photographer of the UP Collegian and wrote for the Manila-based newspaper Today. He was admitted to the bar in 1999 after which he joined the Sapalo Velez Bundang Bulilan (SVBB) Law Office where he is now a junior partner and heads the seafarers’ division.

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