Hula Hoops
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- This article is about the snack food Hula Hoops. For the toy, see hula hoop.
Hula Hoops are a salted potato-based snack product, in the shape of short, hollow cylinders. They are named after the hula hoop, a similarly-shaped toy. They are popular in Ireland and Britain. They are currently available in five flavours: original (salted), Barbecue Beef, Cheese and Onion, Roast Chicken and Salt and Vinegar. They are produced by KP Snacks, part of United Biscuits.
Hula Hoops are either known as crisps, potato snacks, or simply "those little round things that you can eat". Interesting to note that due to a legal battle with the makers of crisps, KP are no longer allowed to call their potato-based snack 'crisps', this led to the removal of KP's website whilst they make the necessary changes. So just to confirm, they aren't crisps, at all.
Hula Hoops packets have traditionally been red, and this remains the colour for the original flavour. Various on-pack promotions and TV advertising have ensured their popularity over many years.
It is popular practice to thread the eater's fingers through the hula hoops, as if wearing rings and eat them off like that. Although, in the case of the eater no longer being a child and thus having fingers too wide to do so, they are placed on (or, in the eventuality of the fingers still being too large, on the pad of) the fingertip.
