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Shoyru_Lover
 Post subject: What the world eats
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What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Protographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet".

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Germany, you're crazy.

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It's both neat and a bit sad that nearly every picture has at least one or two American things in there.

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The American family has a lot of junk food in there... and processed food...

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It makes me a little sad how different (and lacking) some of the more rural areas' menus are. I guess it's just difficult to see such small portions as I sit her with a stick of focaccia and goat cheese stuffing my mouth XD

It also really worries me that there is such a dominance of processed, packaged, plastic-wrapped food. I mean, I'm just as guilty, but I seriously worry about the state of a world that lives on cake mix and bottled soda...

Other general trends...lots of fruit in Italy and Mexico, not so much in American....I'm sort of just going along and noticing trends, but I really have noticed the utter lack of greenery in all the diets I've seen so far...

I also wanted to point out, randomly, that the family from Beijing is probably not terribly typical because they would have to be pretty rich to get a waiver from the one-child policy, or both the parents are only children, either way making them spend slightly differently than the typical Chinese family.

but, overall, very, very interesting...

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Very interesting. I wasn't so much shocked at the little amounts of food that some families had, but the enormous amounts that the other families owned. I thought my family bought a lot of food, but not nearly as much per week as a few of them.

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I'd seen some of those pictures on a magazine, but not all of them... wow, how much fruit juice do those Germans drink? :o
And the people from Sicily eat the same breakfast cereals as me :D yummy!

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It makes me a little sad how different (and lacking) some of the more rural areas' menus are. I guess it's just difficult to see such small portions as I sit her with a stick of focaccia and goat cheese stuffing my mouth XD

It also really worries me that there is such a dominance of processed, packaged, plastic-wrapped food. I mean, I'm just as guilty, but I seriously worry about the state of a world that lives on cake mix and bottled soda...

Other general trends...lots of fruit in Italy and Mexico, not so much in American....I'm sort of just going along and noticing trends, but I really have noticed the utter lack of greenery in all the diets I've seen so far...

I also wanted to point out, randomly, that the family from Beijing is probably not terribly typical because they would have to be pretty rich to get a waiver from the one-child policy, or both the parents are only children, either way making them spend slightly differently than the typical Chinese family.

but, overall, very, very interesting...


Just gotta say... the quality and aesthetically pleasing nature of your posts astound me! 8)

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Awww. I want this book now. I just love all of the pictures of different families. They're so adorable. It's interesting to see all of the different currencies, too. Togrogs. Hehe.

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Our family spends about $90 a week on food, but some of these people spend way too much.

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Food expenditure for one week: $1.23


Talk about being on a budget.

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You all have to remember that not every thing cost as much as it does in America.
Think of how in the 1940s or whatever, a hotdog used to cost 5 cents, now it'll cost you $2 in the city.

Or to prove my point really, when I was living in Manhattan with only my dad, each grocery run went well over $150... For two people.... Who ate out every single day. Where lunch for one person goes up to $18 a burger. Here in Israel,I pull out about $2.00 a day on lunch.
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Poor people that don't have much..

And then I laugh at the Americans and people who like junk.

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Poor people that don't have much..

And then I laugh at the Americans and people who like junk.


I'm sorry, but you laughing at people who like 'junk' isn't nice. Thats how much of the forum? There's nothing wrong with liking a bit of "junk" or processed food, it just needs to be taken in proportion and in stride.

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ahoteinrun wrote:
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Poor people that don't have much..

And then I laugh at the Americans and people who like junk.


I'm sorry, but you laughing at people who like 'junk' isn't nice. Thats how much of the forum? There's nothing wrong with liking a bit of "junk" or processed food, it just needs to be taken in proportion and in stride.


Sorry. Wrong words. I mean people who live off junk..and maybe not laugh.

What can I say, I have a big mouth.

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