The 90s Babies
This chocolate bar’s jingle said “Kuch meetha ho jaaye.”
What is Cadbury Dairy Milk?
Song 1
What is “Pehla Nasha” – Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar?
In this area, you're bound to see an auntie FaceTiming from Trader Joe’s to compare mango prices with India.
What is Sunnyvale?
The unofficial motto of your 30s: “I can’t, I have _______.”
What is laundry / work / adulting / gym?
Everything in life is _______
What is 50-50?
Before smartphones, many of us played Snake obsessively on this iconic phone model.
What is the Nokia 3310?
Song 2
A place where you drive 7 hours to, spend $500, and come back sunburnt just to tell everyone you “went skiing.”
What is Tahoe?
You run to Apni Mandi on Sunday because this item is out of stock everywhere else.
What is Haldiram's paneer?
Only dessert Sri can make
What is No-bake Cheesecake?
“Mere paas maa hai” — this legendary line made Amitabh Bachchan a national icon in which film?
Deewar
Song 3
What is We Are Young?
SF locals call it “microclimate.” Everyone else just calls it this.
What is Karl the Fog?
The only FOMO you feel now is missing this.
What is a nap / Amazon sale / 8 hours of sleep/ friends buying their first house?
This is Sri’s “unofficial uniform” — what he’s always wearing.
What is T-Shirt/Sweatpants/ Waffle T-shirts?
Every '90s kid used this blue sticky glue that left residue on your fingers for hours.
What is Fevicol / Fevistick?
Song 4
What is Bardali?
Where there are more food options than your wedding buffet.
What is Google?
You’re not “old” old yet — but you definitely say this line once a week.
What is “kids these days…/ Gen Z/ Gen Alpha"
If Sri isn’t in Sunnyvale, chances are he’s here — refueling himself with trail mix and chai.
What is “somewhere between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite”?
Every 90s Indian kid could sing this song without missing a word — “I'm a Barbie girl, in a ________ world
Life in ______, it's __________"
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
Song 5
What is Doordarshan?
You swear you’ll leave SF at 5 p.m., but this freeway laughs at your ambition.
What is 101/280?
You realize your parents were right about this one thing.
What is ghar ka khana / saving money/ realising they were right all along?
What Rhymes with Bri
What is Sri?