buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

I thought Twisties were invented in Australia but there’s no mention of that here:

Fonzies, Italy’s most popular snack, touches down in Spain
25 Apr, 2022

Masoliver will manage the distribution of the popular Italian snack brand in Spain.

After a 50-year history in Italy, Fonzies, which has already revolutionised the snack market in Italy with a unique product, is expanding its borders for the first time in Europe.

Fonzies is a one-of-a-kind snack in both shape and taste. Both crunchy and savoury, it will soon find a place in Spanish supermarkets and we are sure in more than one household.

Made from corn, Fonzies are not fried but baked, and then seasoned with real cheese, which gives them their unmatched flavour. It is a one-of-a-kind product in its category, finding its space between potato crisps and puffed corn snacks.

Fonzies has been an official partner of the Italian national football team since 2020, and is one of the most widely consumed snacks in Italy. With only one product, Fonzies is the third best-selling brand in the Italian snack market.

At Masoliver, we are very happy to take on the distribution of Fonzies in Spain, where we are convinced that the success it is already enjoying in Europe will continue to expand in our country.

https://www.masoliver.com/en/2022/04/25/fonzies-italys-most-popular-snack-touches-down-in-spain/

They were invented in Australia, in Melbourne.

But I certainly wouldn’t have thought chicken Twisties are twice as popular as cheese…

Twisties are a type of cheese curl corn-based snack food product, available mainly in Australia, and other Oceanian countries such as Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji, the Southeast Asian countries Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Brunei, and the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. They are also available in Italy, but marketed as “Fonzies”, and in France as “Belin Croustilles”. It was launched in 1950 by the General Foods Corporation. The brand name is owned by The Smith’s Snackfood Company. While originally an Australian-owned company, Smith’s was acquired in August 1998 by Frito-Lay, the second largest producer of snack foods in Australia, which in turn is owned by American multi-national PepsiCo. In Malaysia, Twisties is a product of Mondelēz International, after having been a part of Danone and later, Kraft Foods previously. In Thailand, the Twisties trademark is owned by Lay’s, which like The Smith’s Snackfood Company, is owned by PepsiCo.

In March 2021 Smith’s controversially ended the ongoing debate of “most popular flavour” in Australia by publishing the annual sales figures showing that Chicken flavour out sells Cheese by a factor of almost 2 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisties

I don’t think I’ve ever eaten chicken Twisties. I like the cheese ones too much to try anything else. (I once broke a tooth on a Twistie. No idea how, it wasn’t a hard Twistie. Tooth must have been ready to go)

Take no notice of Wiki they are just Chicken Tragics who will fudge the figures to support their evilness.