It’s interesting to see what constitutes necessity in different cultures. Look at all the junk food in the American and even Mexican family’s diets–in the American family’s pic, you have to look very hard to find fruits and vegetables. The German family has lots of bottled liquids, including beer.
Though the prices are interesting, what people eat on a regular basis is more so.
DAYUM those Germans drink a lot,yea its no surpise that the U.S. eats the most junk food
en la imagen de la familia mexicana se nota que comen muchas frutas y verduras, lo que la friega son las sodas que están al fondo. y en serio, ¿toda esa cerveza se toman los alemanes?
What would be interesting would be how long you have to work for your staples.
But, as income increases,I’m sure, more prepared (and Junk) foods would be on more tables.
Jim, that’s a very good point. In Japan, fruit can be hilariously expensive (partly because ‘perfect’ fruit for gifts is kind of an art form). Beef is also outrageously expensive in Japan.
So, I think we have to look not only at the dollar amounts, but how those dollar amounts relate to what the average family earns.
I think, Jim, that you’ve got it exactly right because you’re looking the amount of work it took to get those resources. You’re not an economist by any chance? Or perhaps a specialist in anthropology?
No economist. When I was about 21, I worked with a man who had moved here from Brazil. I asked him how long he had to work there to buy a loaf of bread. He told me that no one “bought” bread. That contributed to my “Education”. 65 and still learning.
I reckon if they tried really really hard they could find a more unreadable font for the graphic.
Oh, hang on, no they couldn’t.
I notice in Germany and the U.S.there are 4 people in the family, and the food is unhealthy, Italy, Poland and Mexico, more people, less money the food gets more healthy. but if you look at the food in front of the family from Egypt there are alot of fruits and vegetables, Ecuador, fruits and vegetables and more grains. The people from Bhutan have alot of fruits, vegetables and grains, they will probably all live to be 100. The family from Chad that’s just sad. Those of us who live in countries where we spend so much on junk should be thankful. Or maybe we should learn to eat better.
IMO:
The German food is great! They have to be careful about their teeth with all those fruit juices (but good for vitamin C etc.). I also noticed they had the most dairy and meat products, and mineral water and some wine (good for you in moderation). I assume the dad is the beer drinker judging from his gut. I would say the German diet is the most varied and actually the healthiest (except for dad). The Egyptian diet looks pretty good, except not enough diary and the portions must be small. I noticed the Polish family is good with their dairy and love chocolate too 🙂 but again small portions. The Mexicans really like their Coke. The Italian diet is too much bread which is bad for the bowels. The worst is the Americans due to most processed foods. Ecuador, Bhutan and Chad are the poorest diets because they miss food groups.
It seems to me that the “western” food culture has spread wide.
Good & bad. If the corporations thought that they could easily get gain, they would find a way to raise the life style / income of the poorer countries. Bet they’re working on it.
The German Family: Father drinks beer, mother drinks the wine and the kids drink Afri-Cola (a german product). Real average german families would have a bit more junk-products like the americans.
And by the way: The polish family hides the alkohol supplies.
Germany: This is one of the richer families, maybe in a suburb. These are mostly branded products (except for the juices).
I think this family has a serious problem with alcohol – I guess the father works and the mother is a housewife.
She is not very happy with her life. Maybe she went to university and feels now underchallenged with cooking and all that crappy housewife-stuff. She definitely cooks every day for her family and looks for their health. The pizza is for the weekend when the parents are out. She planned to work again when the son was ready to go to school but then the other son “happened” and she gave this plan up… To compensate her suffering she drinks a lot of red wine (okay, it’s “only” four bottles a week).
The father works all day in a big company, lower management. He likes his work and loves his family – or at least he pretends this. When he comes home, a warm dinner is served and after having this the family sits together and watches tv (of course the other son leaves to play WoW). The fact that there are about thirty bottles of beer (that’s not afri-cola) emptied a week implies that he has no problem that his older son also gets a beer sometimes. Maybe he thinks that this will prevent him from getting too drunk when he is eighteen (the age you are allowed to buy alcoholic beverages in Germany). Even though he seems to love everything in his life he often thinks about it – he never made it to middle or upper management, his wife is unhappy, his children do not like him. He numbs himself by drinking lots of beer.
The older son is about fifteen years old. His parents sent him to the Gymnasium (the college-preparatory school) because they want him to go to university but his achievments do not fit it. He also likes to drink – this seems to work for his role models (parents). Because of his age he hates everything and hates the vegetables he has to eat every day but does not see which high level he lives on. His “friends” are all in the soccer-club and on WoW.
The younger son is quite intelligent and asks many questions while he is a little bit slow in understanding things. He has not been to parties and such miraculous things his brother told him about – because of that he does not know about things like coke or fast-food. So he does not complain and follows his parents. He sees their problems with the alcohol and will not drink much alcohol.
It’s interesting to see what constitutes necessity in different cultures. Look at all the junk food in the American and even Mexican family’s diets–in the American family’s pic, you have to look very hard to find fruits and vegetables. The German family has lots of bottled liquids, including beer.
Though the prices are interesting, what people eat on a regular basis is more so.
DAYUM those Germans drink a lot,yea its no surpise that the U.S. eats the most junk food
en la imagen de la familia mexicana se nota que comen muchas frutas y verduras, lo que la friega son las sodas que están al fondo. y en serio, ¿toda esa cerveza se toman los alemanes?
What would be interesting would be how long you have to work for your staples.
But, as income increases,I’m sure, more prepared (and Junk) foods would be on more tables.
Jim, that’s a very good point. In Japan, fruit can be hilariously expensive (partly because ‘perfect’ fruit for gifts is kind of an art form). Beef is also outrageously expensive in Japan.
So, I think we have to look not only at the dollar amounts, but how those dollar amounts relate to what the average family earns.
I think, Jim, that you’ve got it exactly right because you’re looking the amount of work it took to get those resources. You’re not an economist by any chance? Or perhaps a specialist in anthropology?
No economist. When I was about 21, I worked with a man who had moved here from Brazil. I asked him how long he had to work there to buy a loaf of bread. He told me that no one “bought” bread. That contributed to my “Education”. 65 and still learning.
I reckon if they tried really really hard they could find a more unreadable font for the graphic.
Oh, hang on, no they couldn’t.
I notice in Germany and the U.S.there are 4 people in the family, and the food is unhealthy, Italy, Poland and Mexico, more people, less money the food gets more healthy. but if you look at the food in front of the family from Egypt there are alot of fruits and vegetables, Ecuador, fruits and vegetables and more grains. The people from Bhutan have alot of fruits, vegetables and grains, they will probably all live to be 100. The family from Chad that’s just sad. Those of us who live in countries where we spend so much on junk should be thankful. Or maybe we should learn to eat better.
IMO:
The German food is great! They have to be careful about their teeth with all those fruit juices (but good for vitamin C etc.). I also noticed they had the most dairy and meat products, and mineral water and some wine (good for you in moderation). I assume the dad is the beer drinker judging from his gut. I would say the German diet is the most varied and actually the healthiest (except for dad). The Egyptian diet looks pretty good, except not enough diary and the portions must be small. I noticed the Polish family is good with their dairy and love chocolate too 🙂 but again small portions. The Mexicans really like their Coke. The Italian diet is too much bread which is bad for the bowels. The worst is the Americans due to most processed foods. Ecuador, Bhutan and Chad are the poorest diets because they miss food groups.
It seems to me that the “western” food culture has spread wide.
Good & bad. If the corporations thought that they could easily get gain, they would find a way to raise the life style / income of the poorer countries. Bet they’re working on it.
The German Family: Father drinks beer, mother drinks the wine and the kids drink Afri-Cola (a german product). Real average german families would have a bit more junk-products like the americans.
And by the way: The polish family hides the alkohol supplies.
Germany: This is one of the richer families, maybe in a suburb. These are mostly branded products (except for the juices).
I think this family has a serious problem with alcohol – I guess the father works and the mother is a housewife.
She is not very happy with her life. Maybe she went to university and feels now underchallenged with cooking and all that crappy housewife-stuff. She definitely cooks every day for her family and looks for their health. The pizza is for the weekend when the parents are out. She planned to work again when the son was ready to go to school but then the other son “happened” and she gave this plan up… To compensate her suffering she drinks a lot of red wine (okay, it’s “only” four bottles a week).
The father works all day in a big company, lower management. He likes his work and loves his family – or at least he pretends this. When he comes home, a warm dinner is served and after having this the family sits together and watches tv (of course the other son leaves to play WoW). The fact that there are about thirty bottles of beer (that’s not afri-cola) emptied a week implies that he has no problem that his older son also gets a beer sometimes. Maybe he thinks that this will prevent him from getting too drunk when he is eighteen (the age you are allowed to buy alcoholic beverages in Germany). Even though he seems to love everything in his life he often thinks about it – he never made it to middle or upper management, his wife is unhappy, his children do not like him. He numbs himself by drinking lots of beer.
The older son is about fifteen years old. His parents sent him to the Gymnasium (the college-preparatory school) because they want him to go to university but his achievments do not fit it. He also likes to drink – this seems to work for his role models (parents). Because of his age he hates everything and hates the vegetables he has to eat every day but does not see which high level he lives on. His “friends” are all in the soccer-club and on WoW.
The younger son is quite intelligent and asks many questions while he is a little bit slow in understanding things. He has not been to parties and such miraculous things his brother told him about – because of that he does not know about things like coke or fast-food. So he does not complain and follows his parents. He sees their problems with the alcohol and will not drink much alcohol.
Milk and coffee are missing in this picture.