21/01/2024
> WHAT IS A SNACK ? <
Its's one of those questions that doesn't seem like it should be a question.
Everyone knows what a snack is: It's that thing happens between meals, that thing you didn't have to prep or cook or otherwise expend any meaningful effort to propel into your mouth. It's that thing that came out of a bag.
The idea that snacking is so closely tied to who we are is one with broad implications, both for armchair philosophers and the processed-food conglomerates that have significant investments in appealing to our sense of self through calculated product placement.
On its website, Herr's International, the potato chip manufacturer, states that its purpose is to satisfy the tastes of "the snacking community", a term that is both meaningless and bald-faced in its attempt to pander to the human need for connection and moreover, connection through food.
But Herr's is hardly unique in equating snacking with community: Kellogg's touts the "physical, emotional and societal interconnections" that can be found in its Pringles and Cheez-Its, while the Frito-Lay's website emphasizes the presence of its snacks "at tailgates and in lunchboxes, at picnics and in pantries", selling, again, the notion that snacks mean togetherness.
CREDIT TO: Rebecca Flint Marx https://www.eater.com/21429360/what-is-snack-food-snacking-community
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