BBC 6分钟英语 你最喜欢的零食是什么

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I'm Neil, and I'm Beth. It seems people around the world are in love with snacks.

From old favorites like popcorn and crisps,

to new inventions, like the

chocolate sandwich. Snacks are big business, with an estimated $1.5 trillion a year spent globally on snacking.

Let's listen as British food historian Annie Gray an Argentinian chef Barbara Oyavuvari, tell BBC World Service Program the Food Chain what they like to snack on.

Between meals, I like salted peanuts and I love a banana, preferably together.

Actually, I find that they hit the spot.

My favorite snack is called Cheaper, is a small, round bun made with cassava, cheese, butter, milk and salt.

Barbara's favorite snack is a cheese bread called Chippa, while for Annie, it's the combination of peanuts and banana that hits the spot an idiom, meaning that it's exactly what you want.

Neil, what's your favorite snack? Well, I want to say something healthy, but actually, you know, I really love a bag of crisps.

Ah, me too. Yeah, crisps are good.

Well, whatever you like to nibble on.

In this episode, we'll find out why we are so in love with snack food.

As usual, we'll learn some useful new words and phrases, and remember, you'll find all the vocabulary and a quiz on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

OK, but 1st, I have a question for you, beth.

According to a recent YUGA survey, which of the following snacks is most popular amongst Brits?

Is it a crisps b confectionery and chocolate?

Or see savory snacks and biscuits?

Well, we both just said crisps, so I'm gonna say crisps.

Well, we'll find out the answer later in the program.

Someone with a professional interest in snacking is Christine Cockran, president of Snack International, the Trade Association for the Industry.

Here, christine shares her ideas about why we love to snack.

With BBC World Service program the food chain, A snack is an affordable luxury.

So if youve had a bad day or money is tight, this is something that you can turn to.

And I think that is why you see it as so popular.

Consumers, especially in the United States, are looking for smaller, more convenient portions.

They're not always going to be able to sit down and have three meals a day, right?

So they're eating on the go.

And the other thing that you see is this desire for very specific functional ingredients, right?

So mental clarity, gut health, muscle development.

These sorts of things. Again, they are nicely packaged in snack sizes.

Snacks are often seen as a little luxury, but to be successful, a snack must also be affordable, an adjective, meaning not expensive snacks which are cheap enough for most people to buy, will sell even if money is tight.

A phrase used to describe a situation where there's only just enough money to live on.

Thanks to snacks to day, fewer people sit down to eat a proper meal.

Instead they eat on the go.

If you do something on the go, you do it while you're busy traveling or moving around, rather than at home.

Many modern snacks target a specific function, e.g.

an energy drink. Might claim to improve your gut health or your mental clarity, a term describing a state of mind which is focused and engaged, not dull or foggy.

But not everyone is a fan of modern packaged snacks, such as the bag of crisps and chocolate bars which fill our shops.

Originally from Argentina, barbara Oivari now lives in Florida, USA.

Here, barbara tells BBC World Services the food chain, how she encourages her nine year old son to choose more natural snacks.

Personally, I enjoy cooking and eating more natural, simpler snacks, but of course, I can't swim against the current.

And if my nine year old wants to eat the little baked snacks that have titter, ironically, it is something baked with cheese in it, which is similar to what I enjoy.

It's just the modern twister. Barbara wants her son to eat healthy, homemade food, although he prefers modern package snacks.

Barbara complains she can't swim against the current.

The idiom Swim against the current means to act differently from other people, often because you do not mind being different.

Well, neil, all these snacks have made me hungry.

Now, isn't it time to reveal the answer to your question?

Yes, it is. I asked, according to a recent Yugov survey, which of the following snacks is the most popular amongst

Brits, crisps, confectionery and chocolate, or savory snacks and biscuits?

And the answer was b confectionery and chocolate, which 45% of britain's indulging weekly, according to that survey.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary

we've learned, starting with the phrase hits the spot, which describes something

which is exactly what you want or need.

If something is affordable, it's cheap enough that most people have enough money to buy it.

The phrase money is tight means you only have just enough money to live.

The idiom on the go means doing things while you're busy traveling or moving around.

Mental clarity is a state in which your mind is fully focused and active, not dull or foggy.

And finally, people who swim against the current or the tide do or say things differently from most other people.

Once again, our 6 min are up, but why not head over to our website, bbc learning english dot com to try the quiz and worksheets for this episode?

See you again soon. Goodbye. 6 min English from BBC learning english dot com.

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