See: What Middle-Class Families Eat Around the World
By Diana Jou - Jun 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage
Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
Family recipe: Okra and mutton
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
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
United States: The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken
“What the World Eats,” part I and part II, Time. Can’t get enough? Buy the book here.
comparing the two western diets, germany and the u.s., i love how the american products are so much more flashy and with pizazz.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:20 amNotice how the Western diets are filled with processed crap. I don’t see a single vegetable for the American family. (God help us.)
June 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pmNow now… The Americans have veggies on their table. Look - there’s a tomato! And grapes! Oh wait…those are fruits…
Notice also that the Americans also have restaurant bought pizza, McDonalds, Burger King, and what looks like Taco Bell on the table. *sigh* Well, you can’t deny they’re representative of America, can you?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:41 pmWe keep moving further and further away from actual goods, fresh, locally grown. Go to the farmer’s market, dudes!
June 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pmPost some real text. No more pictures please.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:31 pmRobin, for text please refer to the other 80% of pushback.org. Thank you!
June 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pmRashi’s reply seems to suggest that these pictures represent averages. If that’s the case, I wholeheartedly agree with the “God help us” statement. At this point, however, I refuse to believe it. 2 pizzas and multiple fast food meals in one week? Is Seattle simply some culinary bubble, unrepresentative of American consumption? I don’t know any families like the one pictured. Even those I know who tend toward convenience food rely heavily on pre-packaged salads and fruits…
June 27th, 2008 at 1:35 pm