Comments on: what the world eats

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:07:59 +0000

I can’t blame he Mexican family for drinking all of that coke, Mexican coke is the best! Mexican sodas in fact are all awesome in general. At least they use real cane sugar in their soda and not fake sweetener. At least their high veggie & fruit diet makes up for it! I wonder how typical these representations are in general. …

By: Minimalism | Mormon Bloggers

Minimalism | Mormon Bloggers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:41:14 +0000

[...] was reading an article the other day about what the world eats. It showed a picture of what a typical family eats in a week from different countries. In this [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:17 +0000

For those who commented on the pre-packaged food in the Chinese family, they live in Beijing. It’s one of the biggest cities in China so of course they have access to prepackaged ‘Western” food. However, most people in China don’t live in big cities. Much is China is rural. However, on vacation in southern China and Hong Kong (I’m Chinese) my dad always told me that fresh fruits and vegetables are really expensive. Also, there’s dietary differences between the North and South (Southern china eats much more rice and fish). In fact, the Japan family’s diet looked more like mine here in America.

By: Kahnrad

Kahnrad — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:01:48 +0000

My first reaction was a verbal, “Oh Lord…” LOL – Thanks for the perspective!

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000

I had seen many of these photos before in a Newsweek spread a few years ago. My husband and I still talk about it. In the article I saw, they also had a family from a refuge camp in Chad and it was very sobering to see what little they had. It also listed how much people spent on the food that they had, which was interesting to me, because even the family in Mexico was spending more on food for a week then we were at that time. That surprised me.
I found out a few weeks ago from a friend that Peter Menzel also has a book called “Material World” where 30 statistically average families put out everything that they own. I thought you might be interested in that as well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:40 +0000

If you look at the Mali family. I wouldn’t say there is extremely little food there. Three massive sacks of grains. You can stretch that out into many meals.

What interests me except for the prepackaged (egh) plastic stuff, there is very little meat shown here.

By: links for 2009-10-07

links for 2009-10-07 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:01:38 +0000

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By: Jenna Rickson

Jenna Rickson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:51:37 +0000

My first reaction to this was how the food quantity got smaller and smaller with each picture and then I looked at quality of food and how the “typical american family” had all this junk food and then no so much with china and then you get to mexico and ecuador and they’re are tons of vegetables and grains and then with Mali there was extremely little food!

By: What the world eats | Fabulously Broke in the City

What the world eats | Fabulously Broke in the City — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:13:56 +0000

[...] I first saw it via Becoming Minimalist. [...]

By: SolarInMaine

SolarInMaine — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:18:09 +0000

Just a note on the last two pictures.. If you remember that the rice, grains, and beans double in size when cooked, it’ll look more like enough to feed a large family.