What snacks do Americans like to eat?

What are the family snacks in America? After my little investigation, I'd like to introduce some of the most traditional snacks to you.

1, chips

Potato chips are authentic American snacks. According to statistics, Americans eat about 540 million tons of potato chips every year, which can bring 6 billion dollars of wealth to the American snack industry. March 14 every year is "potato chip day" in the United States. Indeed, it was Americans who invented potato chips. 1853 krom, chef of a restaurant in Saratoga Hot Springs, new york, USA, invented potato chips. A guest ordered traditional French fries that day, but he felt that the French fries cooked by the chef were too thick and he was not satisfied. George had to make another one. This time, he cut the potatoes into paper-like slices, put them in hot oil and fried them into thin and crisp slices. I wanted to irritate the picky guests with potato chips, but I didn't expect the guests to be happy instead of angry. Other diners saw it and wanted to try it. After eating, everyone likes the taste of potato chips. Later, guests often ordered this dish, and potato chips became a popular specialty in this restaurant. Popular potato chips were thus produced.

2、Twinkies

Twinkies is a banana-flavored cream cake. Because it is individually packaged and easy to carry, there are usually two in one bag, so the word "twins" is borrowed. Since its birth, it has become a snack for all ages in the United States. Adults and children in the United States think it is very happy to tear open the small bag of cake and take out the soft cream-filled cake. As if at the moment of tearing open the packet, happiness came out with the cake, which made people smile. Jen james dewar, the manager of Chicago bakery, invented Twinkies in 193 1. He found that a finger-shaped strawberry cake bought in the store was only baked in the summer season when strawberries were on the market, and the molds baked at other times were not used. In order to improve the utilization rate of the mold, his inventor made a banana-flavored cream cake, but he didn't expect the demand to exceed the supply as soon as it went on the market. The cake shop could supply this kind of cake all year round, when each cupcake was only sold for five cents. Because of its low price and good taste, it became a rare food during the Great Depression in the United States, and it is also a wonderful childhood memory of many adult Americans today. To this day, Americans still love this snack.

3. Cheetos

Cheetos is a kind of puffed corn food similar to China's "fluffy and crisp". It's not a native American snack. It was introduced to the United States from Australia in the early 1980s. Cheetos taste crunchy. In addition to the sweet corn flavor, Cheetos also have a strong cheese flavor, which is particularly in line with Americans' appetite, so they became popular as soon as they arrived in the United States. This snack also has a famous cartoon spokesperson, a naughty orange cheetah. This cheetah named Chester often gets Cheetos from others in various nonsense ways in Cheetos TV advertisements, because Cheetos are the favorite. The Cheeto advertising star almost became a TV program star, but because of his commercial taste, he only became a cartoon TV star.

4. Beef jerky

Beef jerky is also beef jerky. "Beef jerky" means beef jerky. There are not only beef jerky in America, but also wild beef jerky, deer jerky, elk jerky and turkey jerky. Dried meat is one of the earliest ways to store meat. Many ethnic groups have the habit of making dried meat, which is very common in China. Americans' habit of eating dried meat is also closely related to the historical development of the United States. As early as 1550, Peruvian Indians introduced dried meat to the United States. Spanish travelers on the American continent like dried meat very much. Early pioneers in North America often put beef on the roof of caravans when traveling and made meat into dried meat. Of course, in life, they also found other ways to make beef jerky, such as smoking beef jerky with branches. In fact, as American pioneers went deep into the hinterland and frontier of the United States, the production and consumption of dried meat gradually spread throughout the continent. Although Americans nowadays don't have to make jerky as hard as pioneers because of lack of food, jerky is still a delicious snack that they can't give up.

popcorn

If you want to trace the history of popcorn, it is not in America. Popcorn was considered a snack in the Stone Age. Archaeologists found 80,000-year-old corn pollen under the ruins of ancient Mexico City. This kind of corn pollen is the same as that used to make popcorn now, so they infer that "Neanderthals" in this area may have eaten popcorn, which is really exaggerated, but in fact, corn first grew in the American continent, and then was introduced to China and India hundreds of years before Columbus discovered it. Archaeologists did find the oldest popcorn in the "Bat Cave" in central New Mexico. In southern Utah, archaeologists found popcorn 1000 years ago. It looks almost like fresh popcorn. American Indians used popcorn as necklaces and headdresses long ago. They brought popcorn to new immigrants on the first Thanksgiving in American history. Early American colonists also liked popcorn very much. Usually, they pour milk and cream on it and enjoy it at breakfast. After entering the modern society, popcorn became popular from the end of 19 to the beginning of the 20th century. People like to take it to the cinema to eat. Now every American consumes an average of 70 pints of popcorn every year. America is really a country that loves popcorn.