Roasted peanuts, crisps, fizzy sweets, rice crackers,
mini peppers filled with garlic cheese, chocolate on top of bread.
We posted on the BBC World Service Facebook page asking, what's your favourite snack?
And these were just a few of the many, many things you like to nibble on.
Us humans have been snacking for thousands of years.
But in modern times, a huge industry has grown up around it.
I would say it's about $1.2 to $1.5 trillion worth of goods being sold in the snacking category.
And there are more products hitting the shelves every week.
We've got sweet potato casserole potato chips.
Sounds crazy, right?
We've got mixed berry lemonade-flavored chips, pink lemonade-flavored Kit Kats.
It's all about taste, convenience, indulgence.
A snack is an affordable luxury.
In this episode of The Food Chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander,
we're exploring why we're so in love with snack foods,
how they've gone from occasional treat to everyday staple.
We've become a snacking culture, in fact,
to the extent that we consume more of our food via snacking for many people than we have by the normal two or three sit-down meals that we grew up with.
We'll be finding out what's behind this seismic shift in how we eat,
how food is made and how it's marketed,