What the World Eats

I found this interesting.

Note the predominance of pizza worldwide.

OK, it's quite interesting to see that most middle class families in developed countries spend roughly $150 to $250 a week, depending on how much meat and prepared foods they purchase. What baffles me though, is how you can buy that much food, quantity-wise, in Bhutan, for $5.03.

Fantastic post Cynthia...I find this so interesting! Thank you for posting this!!

WOW! I find Chad the most interesting of the group of pictures, and I don't quite know how to feel about it.

Feel set up.

Note what they eat. Now try to find the lamb.

Feel set up.

Note what they eat. Now try to find the lamb.

I agree. But the caption states Favorite foods, not that it's the foods they eat [most often]. Given the conditions, I would suggest, since it's "soup with fresh sheep meat", most probably the meat is a bone they can scavenge from someone else, and the soup is probably a thin broth, at best.

Note the predominance of pizza worldwide.

Unfortunately, a lot of those folks are eating frozen pizza.

I feel called to become a missionary to spread The Good Word of Homemade Pizza, both here and abroad.

Jo Ann: Yeah, I'm curious about it myself. Though some clues can be found in Wikipedia's article on Chad:

Chad remains plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d'état, and is one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Africa... Corruption is rife at all levels; Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2005 named Chad the most corrupt country in the world, and it has fared only slightly better in the following years. In 2007, it scored 1.8 out of 10 on the Corruption Perceptions Index (with 10 being the least corrupt). Only Tonga, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar, and Somalia scored lower.

Frozen would only be an improvement of the pizza that Germans eat.

It appears that Mongolia and Bhutan eat the most fresh food. If I am not mistaken, in every other picture, save Chad, there was some form of American product (Coke, Kellogg's, KFC, McDonald's, etc.).

Celia, I disagree about your 'thin broth' comment. My bet is that the people of Chad listed fresh sheep meat as a favorite food because it is only something they can get every once in a while. It's just my guess, though.

rwj