Is it possible to describe a consumer’s ideal snack in terms that are neither healthy nor unhealthy? That was the aim of a recent piece of Dutch research that asked 1,087 participants about their ideal snack and the characteristics that make a snack healthy or...
You know your food tastes great, but how do you tell your customers? The few adjectives you have to play with – sweet, bitter, sour, etc – are so uninspiring, you’ll find yourself relying on comparisons such as lemony, cheesy, earthy, malty. Which is fine so...
No, I don’t know what that headline means either. But that’s the point. If you force copy into a stylistic straitjacket (ooh, there we go again), you get nonsensical non-sequiturs (hmmm). So when a few bags of fruit and nuts from Holland & Barrett...
Scrabble players understand this only too well: some letters are worth more than others. Even Countdown viewers know that you need a good balance of vowels and consonants to make a decent word. Recently fans of Walkers Crisps discovered that three particular letters –...