Very, very cool photo essay — “What the World Eats” — in TIME. (HT to reader)
-
English Books on Korea... and More!
-
Visit My Brother's Film Review Site
What the World Eats
This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on June 15, 2007 at 8:59 am, filed under Asides, Completely Random Crap. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
12 Comments
Kinda surprising to see how much Germans spend on food in a week. Not surprising to see my fellow Americans sitting with pizzas in their laps.
You can tell the two teenagers holding the pizza want to be over with it as quickly as possible.
They forgot the Dundee family from Wagga Wagga:
favorite food: meat pies and tooheys new.
Meat pies? Yummy. What do you put in it? We usually put 2 kinds of meat (pork, beef, deer,wild hare. or moose) and one kind of bird (chicken, partridge, or turkey). We boil, debone, and season (salt, pepper, nutmeg and onions) the meat to make the filling.
I couldn’t help but notice the Breidjing Camp family’s food was significantly smaller in portion that the others. Looks almost like a sad commentary on the disproportionate world economy (Everyone’s doing all right!… except Africa).
My heart goes out to the Dundee family. And not because of the meat pies.
On that note, Wikipedia tells me that meat allowed in Australian meat pies are beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit, sheep and kangaroo. Snouts, ears, tongue roots, tendons and blood vessels are all allowed, as is offal if it’s pointed out on the label.
Apologies for posting a Wikipedia link; I had a quick look on the actual Food Standards website but the only meat pie-related standard I found was that pies have to be 25% meat. I’ll dig a bit deeper when I get some time. And if anyone cares.
I’ve always wondered this… is meat pie what I think it is? (you know… pie stuffed with.. meat)
Interesting that Japanese bananas are neatly sealed up in plastic! For a nation that prides itself on environmental conservation you’d think they’d go a bit easier on the ‘triple-packaged’ goods.
And how is that Italian family so ‘thin’ when I see a HUGE mountain of carb-laden foods and non-diet sodas! Atkins-diet de-bunked right before our eyes.
and btw, Poland wins: “Family recipe: Pig’s knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips”
Because as everyone knows, “Africa” is just a refugee camp written large, with nothing but people on the edge of starvation …
It doesn’t get much dumber than using a picture of a single crisis spot as a stand-in for the way of life of hundreds of millions of very different peoples in more than 50 countries, and this criticism applies even more to the idiots at TIME - who had to have passed by any number of better off Africans to take that cliched “We are the World” tearjerker picture - than it does to you.
mondoo: “And how is that Italian family so ‘thin’ when I see a HUGE mountain of carb-laden foods and non-diet sodas! Atkins-diet de-bunked right before our eyes.”
Good point: Italians generally walk more than the average American–at least, outside the major cities…
“Because as everyone knows, “Africa” is just a refugee camp written large, with nothing but people on the edge of starvation …”
I guess that would explain why so many of my African classmates were so damned tall. The malnutrition must have affected their pituitary glands, right?
““And how is that Italian family so ‘thin’ when I see a HUGE mountain of carb-laden foods and non-diet sodas! Atkins-diet de-bunked right before our eyes.””
Atkins debunked it himself: he died of heart disease (and a few years short of average life expectancy in the US if I’m not mistaken).
“It doesn’t get much dumber than using a picture of a single crisis spot as a stand-in for the way of life of hundreds of millions of very different peoples in more than 50 countries, and this criticism applies even more to the idiots at TIME - who had to have passed by any number of better off Africans to take that cliched “We are the World” tearjerker picture - than it does to you.”
That Egyptian family looked very well fed. I noticed in the BBC story you linked to that obesity rates varied throughout Africa with the highest numbers in South Africa and the countries that line the Mediterranean and the lowest numbers in sub-Sahara Africa. Nevertheless, with only two countries, I do agree that the diverse African continent was underrepresented.