Not biscuits

I’ve always enjoyed telling stories from my childhood in India. For this assignment, I picked a memory of an Indian snack, with a strange name, and decided to talk about it, and the memories of my grandparents that went along with that snack.

This was always meant to be a sentimental thread, but I started off my talking about the snack itself, telling people what it is. I made it sound intriguing, because the name of the snack is ‘biscuit ambade’, but they are not biscuits as we know it. It draws the reader in, leaving them wondering what the thread it about.

I segued in the middle, talking about my memories of eating that snack at my grandparents’ house. I used descriptive language, as I like using words, rather than visuals, to paint a picture. This isn’t necessarily always the best way to engage on Twitter, but for a thread like mine, I felt that gifs or images would take away from the impact of what I was going for, engaging the readers, and letting them imagine themselves in the village with me and my grandparents.

I ended the thread with a wistful look back at those short, sweet memories that we remember at odd times, those that we like to recount to our children (probably making them roll their eyes), but those that mean so much to us. It summed up the sentimentality of the thread, but also gave the reader an insight into my mind at that moment, and encompassed the universality of emotional feelings, by evoking childhood memories.