Snacks and titbits

Snacking, in general, isn’t socially acceptable – except at Christmas, when it suddenly is. Biscuits and chocolates, dried fruit and nuts, sugar mice and salty things in packets fill the shelves of many a festive larder. The snack market has boomed since the 1950s, and though many of the things which come into the category have been around since the nineteenth century, it is only recently they’ve been eaten with quite such gay abandon.