What the World eats

[JaybirdUK]

Certainly food for thought....

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding


United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken


Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City
Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25
Favorite foods: sashimi, fruit, cake, potato chips


Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks


Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis
Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15
Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream


Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City
Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45 Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice


Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken


United States: The Caven family of California
Food expenditure for one week: $159.18
Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream


China: The Dong family of Beijing
Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce


Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips


Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar
Food expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02
Family recipe: Mutton dumplings


Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage


Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork


Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

[Mobile Chicane]

Interesting post

If these scenarios are in any way typical, I'm surprised at the amount of processed food eaten in 'developed' economies.

I'd far rather have the Ecuadorian or Bhutanese diets. Is it just me, or do those people look happier?

[marksx]

Ecuador and Bhutan for me too.

The British one, favourite food. Mayonnaise sandwich. Really? Freaks!

[Marf]

Mobile Chicane said:

I'm surprised at the amount of processed food eaten in 'developed' economies.

I'm not. Just look at the ratio of processed/packaged goods in supermarkets compared to fresh produce.

[Mobile Chicane]

Marf said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'm surprised at the amount of processed food eaten in 'developed' economies.

I'm not. Just look at the ratio of processed/packaged goods in supermarkets compared to fresh produce.

True, however I'm referencing my own experience here and would simply never buy the products in the 'typical' British shopping basket.

California and South Carolina are the real shockers: the growing season is pretty much year-round due to sub-tropical climates, yet 90% of what the locals eat is processed 'food'.

[Marf]

Mobile Chicane said:

Marf said:

Mobile Chicane said:

I'm surprised at the amount of processed food eaten in 'developed' economies.

I'm not. Just look at the ratio of processed/packaged goods in supermarkets compared to fresh produce.

True, however I'm referencing my own experience here and would simply never buy the products in the 'typical' British shopping basket.

Ditto. I cant remember the last time I ate something that came in a box. Processed food is just nasty.

Mobile Chicane said:

California and South Carolina are the real shockers: the growing season is pretty much year-round due to sub-tropical climates, yet 90% of what the locals eat is processed 'food'.

That is really shocking, though I think its pretty representative of America as a whole.

[marksx]

Does dog food and cat food really count. Unless they eat the dog as well?

[Simpo Two]

There you see, we get all het up about the poor people living on 'a dollar a day', yet their weekly food bill is only $1.23. And their tax bill is probably $0.00.

[Mobile Chicane]

Simpo Two said:

There you see, we get all het up about the poor people living on 'a dollar a day', yet their weekly food bill is only $1.23. And their tax bill is probably $0.00.

I thought that.

I'm sure they have lots of useful recipes for dieters too.

[Pooky67]

Polish woman, black top. I would.

[Thom987]

Pooky67 said:

Polish woman, black top. I would.

Eat her?

[Pooky67]

Thom987 said:

Pooky67 said:

Polish woman, black top. I would.

Eat her?

Join her for some pigs knuckles

[-crookedtail-]

Pooky67 said:

Polish woman, black top. I would.

Bloody hell you're not fussy, shes gotta be what...60?

[Snoggledog]

Amazing how much processed and ready-meals are on some of those tables. Hardly a vegetable or fruit in sight.

[redtwin]

Not really surprised, developed countries won't rely on subsistence farming for their food so main source will be shop bought/processed. It would be nice if we could all say that we go to a local farm shop for our fresh weekly provisions, but the reality is, large supermarkets are much more convenient, with one stop shopping and of course what they mostly sell is processed.

The Revis family in NC seemed happy enough (or maybe they just fake the best smiles) and were not bloaters as is often suggested about Americans on a processed fast food diet. "Third world" families looked equally as happy, but was that because they are healthier and more smug about paying less for better food, or was that a reaction to curious foreigners plonking down more food than they are used to seeing in front of them and telling them to smile and they can keep the food?. That Italian family obviously lives next door to a bakery.

It would be interesting to know who did the research and the reasons behind it. I couldn't quite figure out if they were trying to show the difference in diet, or costs or apparent health of each family. Or maybe this was just a graduate student's thesis and there is no point to it.

[JaybirdUK]

redtwin said:

It would be interesting to know who did the research and the reasons behind it. I couldn't quite figure out if they were trying to show the difference in diet, or costs or apparent health of each family. Or maybe this was just a graduate student's thesis and there is no point to it.

From the book here; http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-World-Eats-Peter-Menz...

[Jim the Sunderer]

marksx said:

Ecuador and Bhutan for me too.

The British one, favourite food. Mayonnaise sandwich. Really? Freaks!

In street parlance they'd be called 'bloody dirty bds'.

[theironduke]

That British family look very late 80's/early 90's....the mum should be the non-dart player on a Bullseye episode!

[ambuletz]

Pooky67 said:

Thom987 said:

Pooky67 said:

Polish woman, black top. I would.

Eat her?

Join her for some pigs knuckles

Meh, i duno, i'll take the 2 girls from japan (if they're legal). There's something very shy and kinky about them. Long as they don't moan like chipmunks (like you get in jap porn).

[Pints]

Simpo Two said:

There you see, we get all het up about the poor people living on 'a dollar a day', yet their weekly food bill is only $1.23. And their tax bill is probably $0.00.

And the rest can be used for booze money, because I didn't see any V8 in the background which needed filling.

And to think we're sending aid money to them.