Many people enjoy snacks between meals, either while at work or after school when they return home. However, the snacks people each can vary widely from culture to culture or family to family. While some people think of potato chips as a snack, I really enjoyed Edamae, or boiled soybeans while I was in Japan. Basically, you boil the beans with the shell in salt and then serve. At that point, you just remove the pod, or outside shell, and enjoy. So, what about you? Share any unique or interesting snacks that people eat where you live. Randall
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Snacks: What do people enjoy?
Many people enjoy snacks between meals, either while at work or after school when they return home. However, the snacks people each can vary widely from culture to culture or family to family. While some people think of potato chips as a snack, I really enjoyed Edamae, or boiled soybeans while I was in Japan. Basically, you boil the beans with the shell in salt and then serve. At that point, you just remove the pod, or outside shell, and enjoy. So, what about you? Share any unique or interesting snacks that people eat where you live. Randall
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My favorite snack is Hamburger. I know It’s not that healthy! But it’s really yummy and delicious!
ReplyDeleteIn Taiwan, there are all kind of street vendors server delicious food as snack. The one I love most is called "Lu-Way." They boil food such as chicken legs, tofu, vegetables with a mixed soup which contains several seasoning to make it smelling good. Every vendors have their secrete recipes for the soup. It's quite popular in Taiwan.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad to hear you like Japanese edamame, Randall, because I'm Japanese. I usually have edamame with beer. That combination is nice! When I lived in the U.S. until last summer, I liked corn chips and chocolate covered dry fruits. I still miss them! Now I sometimes have "Okaki" which is a kind of rice crackers. On around New year's day we have "Omochi" which made from sticky rice. We have it with soysauce and seaweed or soy powder and sugar. I'm looking forward it!
ReplyDeleteI prefer eat bred how snack.
ReplyDeleteI like to eat fruits between meals. I also drink a lot of fruit juice. I know there should be some balance between water and fruit juice, but I'd rather drink fruit juice than water.
ReplyDeletei'm really not like to eat any snack since i grew up..
ReplyDeletebecause when i was young my mum always let me eat a lot of snack.
so now i think snack is so disgusting~haha..
Hello!I like to have tea or coffee with sweets, especially with pancakes!
ReplyDeleteI like to eat fruits between meals, is very delicious. Sara, Brazil.
ReplyDeleteChicken steak is popular with many people here. It is a little like fried chicken, but it seldom has any bones. Every vendors have their own seasonings to make their chicken steak taste better.
ReplyDeleteIn Taiwan, one of famous snacks is the red bean cake which is a crispy brown shelf with mashed sweet red bean. Also, many Taiwanese including me like stinky Tofu as a snack. Unfortunately, lots of Westerns don't enjoy sweet red bean and stinky tofu. They think red bean shouldn't be cooked into sweet one. Also, they are confused about why people can eat stinky food. Actually, you won't smell the odor while you eating; I especially love the preserved vegetables as the side dish with stinky tofu. Eating the tofu with the sour and sweet preserved vegetable is one of the pleasures in the lifetime.
ReplyDeleteThe night markets of Taiwan are very famous. In night markets, there are many foods you can eat as snacks, such as fried chicken, salt-soaked chicken, sausage, and other foods. All of them are very delicous and not expensive. If you go to Taiwan for tourism someday, you can't miss it.
ReplyDeletemy snack is always Chocolate when i am free.it can make me happy and enough.it's useful snack in medical science.some people don't like to eat
ReplyDeletebecause it can make them fat.but i won't.^ ^
YOU know，there are lots of snacks in china.For Shanghai,the famouse snack must be XiaoLong.Most tourists visited here will taste it in YUYUAN.
ReplyDeleteBut for me,my favorite snack is Chou tofu(I prefer using this word than "stinky tofu").Especially within vendor's special sauce.Sweet and acid.En!MEIWEI!!
In my country Indonesia, the country with various culture there also various snack. But the snack I like most is chips ^-^
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In Taiwan,student like to eat fried chicken on th wat home. I think they know it is unhealthy but they still est. That's why they are so chobby.
ReplyDeleteI give my kids sweat potato when they come home from school.
ReplyDeleteSweat potato is heathy food.
In my coutry almost people enjoy eat a piece of cake, apple pies, or some traditional food.
ReplyDeleteUsually I don’t eat snacks between meals, either while at work or back home because I don’t like brush my teeth many times. But if I have to work extra hours I usually eat a small sandwich or a piece of cake.
ReplyDeleteHowever popular snacks in my country (Peru) are potato chips, “camote” chips (sweet potato), “chifles” (fried banana), etc.
we can meek a fast food helthy at hous and meek fruti salat for dessert
ReplyDeleteMy favorite snacks are candy and chocolate. But becouse i konw they are not healthy, i have replaced the candy and chocolate with bananas and honey.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite snacks are candy and chocolate. But becouse i konw they are not healthy, i have replaced the candy and chocolate with banana and huny.
ReplyDeletewen the father and mother eat helthy food the children be helthy .the children will eat helthy becaus kind do like them.
ReplyDeleteso should eat helthy food.
In my opinion,children should eat fruit and vegetables. The kids would be healthy. If the parents eat healthy food, the children will eat healthy food too because the kids will follow their example.
ReplyDeleteMost kids in Qatar like chocolate for snacks but this is unhealthy food.
My favourite snack is fruit salad because there are many kinds of fruit and they contain vitamins.
Usually I don’t eat snacks between meals, either while at work or back home because I don’t like brush my teeth many times. But if I have to work extra hours I usually eat a small sandwich or a piece of cake.
ReplyDeletethe children are like some fruit,chips,candy,chocolate and jusie.
ReplyDeletemy favourite snacks are fruit and salad
The children are eating snacks
ReplyDeletefruit,chips and chocolate.
My favorite snack is fruit.
Here in Brazil, we usually eat bread and coffe and milk like snack.
ReplyDeleteAs a snacks I like pizza very much..specially spinach pizza with lots of cheese..In india street vendors serve spinach pizza with mushroom and its very tasty..Apart from this I also love india snacks too like dosa(rice tortilla)with lots of spices..idly (rice pancake)etc..I know all of this are not healthy But I love to eat..Because of eating snacks too much I am put on weight..:-(
ReplyDeleteI very like the snacks. Especially when i drink coffe, i like with a piece of sweet bread or bread with butter. I think that eat a snack is not bad if you eat correctly.
ReplyDeletei don't have enough money to eat snack usually, but when i have some money,i buy chocolate to eat. it is delicious and make me feel happy. but i just it a small bar because it is too sweet to eat more
ReplyDeleteI agree because the people are eating much snacks and that isn´t healthy.
ReplyDeletethe people should eat vegetables,fruit or other healthy food.
they should practice sports and make exercises for lose the weigth
Although the press says that dieters who eat mid-morning snacks lose less weight, the fact is that this could be because they choose the wrong snack, says Roberta Re, PhD, researcher of nutrition in Leatherhead Food Research.
ReplyDeleteRe and his colleagues found that when people ate 1 1/2 serving of almonds (45 grams) around 11am, were less hungry at lunch and dinner, and consumed fewer calories throughout the day than those who did not eat almonds.
What is the recommended for a mid-morning snack quantity? About 45 grams or about 35 almonds.
Like a snack you can use: vegetables, or sandwich with cheese, or fruits or dried fruits.
ReplyDeleteWe are a fifth grade class in Finland, and we like multiple snacks. We like fruit like watermelon, mango and bananas. We like bread with Nutella (a chocolate and hazelnut spread). Our unhealthy snacks are particularly the same as unhealthy foods everywhere else. In Finland we have really healthy foods. At Easter we eat mämmi (a brown rye porridge) as a snack. We also like Carelian pies (a pastry that has rice, potato, or carrot inside it) with egg butter.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Randall!
ReplyDeleteI'm from Belarus and usually I eat fruits or sandwiches for snack. An apple or banana is , of course, more healthy than sandwich with ham or sausage but it' s sooo tasty! I also eat salads between meals, for example, vegetable with tomatoes, cucumbers, onion and sour cream.
We practically have no street food and a lot of people eat fast food as a snack. It can be pizza, french fries, burgers.
I am from Pasto, Pasto typical food is the cuy. I like cuy, I like pork. We have not street food, you only find restaurants. I like healthy food.
ReplyDeleteBye
Snack is necessary for all but to get snacks must choose good and clean resterunt to eat..i know also it is not healty but when we very hungary we dont have another option
ReplyDeleteIn Vietnam, probably the most popular snack in our country is actually... Potato chips. In vietnam, we don't have much time and that makes snack not popular in here.
ReplyDeleteı dont like snack so much but sometimes when ı am hungry ı want to eat potato chips or nuts
ReplyDeletein Vietnammese, we have many things to eat as a snack. Sometimes, we eat fruit for a snack. Another time, we eat cookie for a snack. I know cookie is not good for my health. But I don't care when it so sweet. I can lay all day, watch TV, eat the snack.
ReplyDeleteI don't like any snack. But if my children want any snacks between meals I usually gives them fructs or sandwiches with bread and sausages or cheese. No popcorn, no chips, no snickers and so on.
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