Most Popular Snack Foods
- Potato chips, $5,263.2
- Tortilla chips, $3,357.9
- Pretzels, $1,260.6
- Nuts, $1,239.8
- Meat snacks, $859.6
- Extruded snacks (corn puffs, rice cakes, et cetera), $849.6
- Microwave popcorn, $709.4
- Corn chips, $644.0
- Ready-to-eat popcorn, $469.6
- Party mix, $315.6
- US sales figures, in millions, for 1996. Source: Snack Food Association.*
This article originally appeared in the February issue of Wired magazine.
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