Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Earlier this week I asked what well-loved foods people loathed. There were, predictably, plenty of mushrooms and coriander, and even some chips. But in more than 850 comments, there was only one person who dissed crisps. This comes as no surprise. If we are no longer a nation of shopkeepers, what we most certainly remain is a nation of crisp-eaters.
This was confirmed by a YouGov poll this week, which found that a third of our children eat crisps every day. A digest: 58% of 8- to 15-year-olds snack on healthy titbits ? fruits, rice cakes, seeds ? while 89% nosh on "standard" snacks, such as crisps, confectionery, biscuits and cakes. Confectionery squashes fruit by a 9% margin, while 70% of 8- to 15-year-olds snack at least once a day.
But crisps are the headline, thanks to the finding that almost two thirds of our children devour them regularly. And who can blame them? There is something entirely irresistible about the humble crisp, a purity rivalled by few, if any, other snacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/28/crisps-pack-a-day
This was confirmed by a YouGov poll this week, which found that a third of our children eat crisps every day. A digest: 58% of 8- to 15-year-olds snack on healthy titbits ? fruits, rice cakes, seeds ? while 89% nosh on "standard" snacks, such as crisps, confectionery, biscuits and cakes. Confectionery squashes fruit by a 9% margin, while 70% of 8- to 15-year-olds snack at least once a day.
But crisps are the headline, thanks to the finding that almost two thirds of our children devour them regularly. And who can blame them? There is something entirely irresistible about the humble crisp, a purity rivalled by few, if any, other snacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/28/crisps-pack-a-day
