Risa Sato's Throwback Tuesday moment.
Here's a yummy history lesson from Creamline Cool Smashers' Risa Sato just a few days before Independence Day.
On Tuesday, the bubbly middle blocker shared a photo with the portrait of national hero Jose Rizal and recounted a memory of a history lesson.
"Naalala ko nang may exam about Jose Rizal. Ano raw favorite food niya?" Sato wrote on Instagram.
The Filipino-Japanese volleyball player admitted she didn't know the answer and wrote in her favorite food instead—champorado.
"EHHHH MALI!!!!!!!! But hot chocolate yung gusto nyaaaaaaaa!!" Sato noted, but not without making an appeal.
"Hot chocolate naman Champorado 😭 Teacheeeeer😭👉🏻👈🏻"
This quickly earned laughs from fellow PVL athletes.
"Beysh hayup ka hahaha," commented Choco Mucho Flying Titans' Maddie Madayag.
"Ang mahalaga alam na nila favorite food mo," teammate Ced Domingo said.
There could be some credence to that answer though.
Champorado, as Filipinos know it, is a sweet chocolate rice porridge, typically made using tablea and sweeteners like condensed milk or even powdered milk and sugar.
Its origins can be traced through the galleon trade with Mexico to champurrado, a warm beverage thickened with corn dough or corn flour.
Historian Ambeth Ocampo did write in Rizal Without the Overcoat that Rizal's typical breakfast consisted of hot chocolate, a cup of rice, and tuyo. He even wrote about two kinds of hot chocolate in Noli Me Tangere.
"The quality of hot chocolate was measured by its thickness and the amount of water placed in it," Ocampo noted in his book Looking Back: Virgin of Balintawak.
But here's where Sato's answer may have had some weight.
Ocampo acknowledged though in a 2016 column that a 1950s Department of Education textbook claimed champorado was invented by the national hero.
According to the textbook, he accidentally tipped hot chocolate into the plate of rice and tuyo as a boy.
"There is no primary source to support this story," Ocampo noted. "Although he did write that one of his favorite breakfast foods was sardinas secas, literally tuyo to all Filipinos."
Maybe Sato's answer could have been worth half a point?
(GM)