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Folks around here love their animal fat and sugar-laden snack products.
A spokesperson for one of the two leading soft drink outfits said his company sells more sugar-laden pop at the Grantsville Foodland, than most any other retail outlet in the region.
Mister Bee, West Virginia's lone potato chip maker, is quickly dropping its low-fat recipe after consumers didn't like its healthier product.
The chip has been a mainstay in the regional market.
Mister Bee's sales dropped by six percent and the company received lots of phone complaints about not liking the taste of the new product.
The Parkersburg-based chip company changed its recipe in March for the first time since it opened in 1951.
The healthier chips are made using all cottonseed oil, which is free of artery-clogging trans-fat.
Mister Bee President Alan Klein said customers said the new chip was was darker in color, greasier and left an aftertaste.
Klein says you have to make the customer happy.
WV schools that make considerable money on snacks are reacting to pressure to not serve the unhealthy products.
Then there is the political movement to protect the public from their habits, outlawing fat food. | 
