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The world in a week of groceries
« on: October 15, 2013, 11:59:39 am »
http://www.nutritionnews.com/food/diet-food/what-a-week-of-groceries-looks-like-around-the-world/

There's basically no text in the article. It's a series of images showing what a week's worth of groceries is in various countries. It's pretty interesting to see how things differ from place to place.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2013, 12:12:35 pm »
It's nifty to see what a range there is between the US and African nations, or pretty much the US and everywhere else, really. I could be wrong, but it looks like fast food is only shown for the US, and I would think it'd be in a few other places as well, like Canada and Australia. Maybe I'm overlooking it.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2013, 12:18:40 pm »
It's nifty to see what a range there is between the US and African nations, or pretty much the US and everywhere else, really. I could be wrong, but it looks like fast food is only shown for the US, and I would think it'd be in a few other places as well, like Canada and Australia. Maybe I'm overlooking it.
I saw quite a lot of KFC in the Chinese picture.

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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2013, 01:12:13 pm »
Ah, sure enough. Now this'll become a game of I Spy.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2013, 01:57:50 pm »
While you see a difference I also see a lot of similarities between almost all but the African pictures. 

The most amusing thing is what appears to be some bottles of beer in the German picture.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2013, 02:00:31 pm »
It's nifty to see what a range there is between the US and African nations, or pretty much the US and everywhere else, really. I could be wrong, but it looks like fast food is only shown for the US, and I would think it'd be in a few other places as well, like Canada and Australia. Maybe I'm overlooking it.
I saw quite a lot of KFC in the Chinese picture.

It probably just depends on if they ate fast food on the day they took the pictures.

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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2013, 05:53:55 pm »
I'm also interested in exactly which families they chose. Considering that almost every country has bountiful amounts of food (some of which barely fit in the shot) and then Chad suddenly has almost nothing but a few sacks, the economic disparity might be larger than they're letting on. I'm not sure that all of them are from the same relative economic standing.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2013, 06:21:59 pm »
Apparently Mexico really likes Coca Cola.

Also, the fuckton of Kraft Dinner, cheese slices and yogurt in the Canadian pic looks about right.
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2013, 06:27:01 pm »
Apparently Mexico really likes Coca Cola.

For some reason, all the Coca Cola that my dad buys is Mexican.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2013, 06:29:11 pm »
Turkey is yummiest over all, but I've always adored that cuisine. Guatemala, hands down the most beautiful and bountiful produce. Chad....they are in a refugee camp.... :'(
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2013, 06:33:51 pm »
Apparently Mexico really likes Coca Cola.

For some reason, all the Coca Cola that my dad buys is Mexican.

Mexican cola is made with cane sugar, whereas American cola uses high-fructose corn syrup, so a lot of people prefer the former.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2013, 06:46:14 pm »
Turkey is yummiest over all, but I've always adored that cuisine. Guatemala, hands down the most beautiful and bountiful produce. Chad....they are in a refugee camp.... :'(

That's kinda what I was getting at with this. A real, good comparison of the relative weekly groceries would have shown people with the same relative wealth across their country. So they show lots of families with (at a minimum) decent-sized homes filled with quality furnishings and enough food to fill the bed of a pickup.....then Africa gets refugees and people living in small huts in the desert. I'm not entirely confident that an upper-middle-class French family is in the same relative position in their country as some poor villagers in Mali.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2013, 06:54:42 pm »
They could be based on where the majority of families lie in terms of quality of life and standard of living, rather than what you'd expect to see from the middle class (which varies in size depending on the nation; in an impoverished, undeveloped nation, the middle class might be virtually non-existent).

That said, I'm not seeing anything on the page to suggest which metric, if any, was used when selecting families.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2013, 07:12:04 pm »
Apparently Mexico really likes Coca Cola.

For some reason, all the Coca Cola that my dad buys is Mexican.

Mexican cola is made with cane sugar, whereas American cola uses high-fructose corn syrup, so a lot of people prefer the former.

I honestly can't tell the difference.  I just like drinking from glass, occasionally, lol.
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Re: The world in a week of groceries
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2013, 08:19:47 pm »
Apparently Mexico really likes Coca Cola.

For some reason, all the Coca Cola that my dad buys is Mexican.

Mexican cola is made with cane sugar, whereas American cola uses high-fructose corn syrup, so a lot of people prefer the former.

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