On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:40:35 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 12:57:31 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> >> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message

> >> > (Their most famous product is the Twinkie, a small loaf of
> >> > sponge cake filled with sweetened whipped vegetable shortening.)
> >>
> >> eww. Are they still popular?
> >
> > Apparently, they sell 500 million of them per year.
> >
> > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2015/04/15/twinkie-billion-dollar-comeback-hostess-metropoulos-apollo-jhawar/>
>
> Oh MY!!!! I know it has been denied here but I am still of the opinion
> that the preference for sweet things in US is far greater than in UK.

Hard to say. 500 million Twinkies is a little more than 1 per person per year.
I certainly haven't eaten my share in decades.

I doubt the deep-fried Twinkie can really compete with the deep-fried
Mars bar.

Still, our sugar consumption is high: 126.4 grams per day,
compared with 93.2 grams per day in the U.K.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/05/where-people-around-the-world-eat-the-most-sugar-and-fat/>

I wonder if that includes high-fructose corn syrup, or just sucrose, or all
sources. A big portion of U.S. sugar consumption is sodas; a lot of people
drink Coke or Pepsi instead of coffee or tea.

Cindy Hamilton