"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> 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
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>> >> > (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.

lol not something I have ever experienced. It isn't a general thing, just
what some fish shops in Scotland make. It is totally unknown (so far as I
am aware) in England


>
> 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.

Here are some stats which may prove me entirely wrong))

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27941325



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