Prosecco flavoured crisps? Eggnog chicken? Sticky toffee pudding trifle? The innovation for novelty Christmas products seems endless, but is there the appetite? Ruth Alexander lifts the lid on an industry churning out festive food hits, and flops, in the race for Christmas tastebuds. She visits the Good Housekeeping Institute in London to take part in an opulent dessert testing event, deciding which puddings are the best on the shelves this year. Eric Numellin and Mike Vahabi from Hela Spice in Toronto, Canada, reveal the wacky inventions they have come up with for this year, and how inspiration can strike at any time. A former buyer for a large European supermarket chain talks about how to “win” Christmas with headline-grabbing products, and what happens when shoppers try things once and don’t go back for more. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Hannah Bewley (Image: Colourful Christmas treats and biscuits. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)
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Cranberry chutney topped pork pies.
Chicken gingerbread shaped people.
Turkey gravy flavoured crisps, Sticky toffee pudding trifle.
Every year it feels like I can fill my shopping basket with ever more weird and wonderful festive foods.
Salted caramel cream chocolate pine cones.
Christmas gone mad or welcome innovation?
No, not for me.
I will buy the turkey flavor crisps and the sticky toffee pudding flavored beer.
I think it's Christmas gone mad.
I think it tends to a lot of waste.
Maybe like a strawberry lip coat or something like that.
I would try.
This is the food chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander.
And this week we're talking to the people behind the ever more inventive food that's in the shops at this time of year.
It's kind of freeing your mind to let the bad ideas flow so that you can fish out the good ones.
We had a gingerbread cheesecake, a cherry baked bell pavlova, the chocolate and orange.