At a convenience store on Manhattan's Upper West Side recently, Sara Padovani, 13, huddled backpack to backpack with Amiris Jacobo, 14, discussing a can of potato chips.
Pack a can of assorted nuts, chips or popcorn.
If you were homeless, she might feed you a can of soup or potato chips out front, or perhaps even let you stay in her three-bedroom apartment.
As a result, people who typically went to the grocery store once a week to stock up are instead stopping by places whose food items used to be limited to a bag of chips or a can of soup.
Over the years, grocers have helped keep their customers happily ignorant of the food's origins — of the horrors of the slaughterhouse, the miseries of the onion fields, and the absurdities contained in a can of soda or a bag of chips.
To grasp the details on the back of a bag of chips or a can of soda, a consumer needs to understand grams and complicated ingredient names, calculate how many servings the item contains, and put everything together in the broader context of the amount he or she consumes each day.
For the rest of May you can trade a can of food for PERi-PERi chips at any Nando's in Auckland.
But such a tax only adds a few cents to the price of potato chips or a can of soda, so it doesn't deter people from eating junk.
That is when he can sit down with us, have his sausage and chips and a can of Coke and just chat about everyday things like all the other dads". Why is it going wrong for English clubs in Europe?
Grab a bag of your favorite potato chips or a can of roasted nuts while working through your tasks.
