Just as rice and noodles are different from bread, snacks in China are a world apart from those in the UK and the US. For one thing, I never imagined that sunflower seeds ( 瓜 子 ) would be so1 in China. I saw people eating them while2 tables outside restaurants, before dinner and, of course, while watching TV. I also saw that a plate of sunflower seeds is always on 3 during the Spring Festival holiday.
In the UK, young people love their4 . In fact, young people in Britain eat more snacks than people of the same5 in other European countries. A survey has 6 that 64 percent of people under the age of 20 snack between meals, according to an article by the British Council.
British snacks are generally7 , but it's just too hard to say no to them. Our favorites are probably potato chips, which we call crisps, and chocolate bars. From a very young age, we always 8 our crisps and chocolate bars after school.
Snacks are also popular in the US. One of the things that I found the most extraordinary ( 特 别 的 )9 I first visited the US was the number of snacks in their supermarkets; I was surprised to find huge aisles (过道) just for snacks that were10 than some stores I'd been to in the UK. Snack tastes in the US are much the same as those in the UK, except that there's many more choices.
