TIME Magazine "What the World Eats" - notice America eats out of boxes and cans and other shit

[Rabrrrrrr]

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html

It's a photo story of what 15 families around the world eat in a week, and what the total cost is.

I find it telling that the more "civilized" the country is, the more garbage it eats: boxed and canned processed foods, instead of healthy stuff, like veggies.

Quite interesting.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. have you read MIchael Pollan? he makes this point.

[XemaSab]

2. To be fair, it's hard to tell what's in a lot of those plastic packages

For example, a plastic package of beans may look all fake in a distant shot, but it might be totally unprocessed (except for removing rocks or whatnot) on the inside.

Nevertheless, it's surprising how many veggies some of the people ate. And I'd like to send that African family some veggies. :(

Thanks for posting this.

[flvegan]

3. "Mayonnaise sandwich"? wtf Baintons of Great Britain?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I heard mayonnaise sandwiches are very popular on Lakeshore Boulevard. nt

[flvegan]

5. Yeah, but Chuggo thinks Great Britian is a breed of large bird.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Hey, it's Britain. The people who love boiled meats and Marmite.

Though I also actually really, really, really love Marmite. :-)

[DS1]

8. I was just going to point out

Marmite is great on toast, or even in a sandwich on its own.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. On toast, indeedy! Yummy!

By the way, the weekly match game was posted earlier.

[DS1]

13. shuffling around some ideas in my head

anyway. NC

2 delivery pizzas, one microwave pizza, one microwave chicken dinner, one burger king, one mcdonalds meal, 4 packs of pork, 12 pack of budweiser, 4 bags of chips, texas garlic toast. even the rice is instant.

I can see 2 maybe 3 tomatoes and a pile of grapes. yikes.

At least I drink lots of V8

[flvegan]

10. Marmite's not bad.

Never understood boiling any meat.

[DS1]

14. I've never seen it done in England

I think it's akin to saying Americans like their tea brewed in a harbor

Our Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding dinners were always roasted :shrug:

[old mark]

36. What's with the baked beans on toast?

I have had bangers and mash, and bubble & squeak, and like that stuff, but I love grease.
Brits eat eels, too, and you are welcome to mine.


mark

[DS1]

6. That US family eats like shit

Waay too much fast food. I wonder what their cholesterol levels are like.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Which one? The Californians or the North Carolinians?

They both have great piles of shit with them, and plenty of good ol' American High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda to wash it down.

Wilford Brimley's gonna be busy delivering diabetes needles.

[DS1]

12. I stopped a few after NC

But I meant them, I'll go see what CA is up to, based on one family

[PVnRT]

15. $200-$300 a week on food?

Jumpin' Jesus Christ a fuckstick! What the hell?

I realize kids = more food, but fucking Christ.

[XemaSab]

Considering the Bhutan family

spends like 5 bucks for like 13 people, yeah, that's a LOT.

[carlyhippy]

16. fresh fruits and vegs used to be less expensive than the boxed/canned stuff

now it's the other way around

[sniffa]

30. Yes, and no

If we make the effort we can get our produce and meats at cheap prices compared to the super market. The produce is awesome too - it's always fresher than the big store. The butcher has good meats too and it's usually, freshly carved as the person handing it to us is covered in blood.

[PVnRT]

31. Are you sure that's animal blood?

[realisticphish]

37. they didn't say what KIND of meat nt

[Burma Jones]

17. Take away the bottles of Coke, replace them with Soy Milk and add some more meat

and my family eats pretty much like the Casales family of Cuernavaca.......


What's with those Germans? $500.00 a week for food? It does, however, look as though they included the Beer........

[LeftyMom]

18. It's the exchange rate.

In countries on the Euro, the dollar only has value as a low-rent alternative to a bidet.

[XemaSab]

Take away the bottles of Coke and replace them with WATER and it's even cheaper

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Take away the bottles of water and replace them with NAKED NATALIE PORTMAN, and it's even HOTTER!

:blush:

[XemaSab]

24. I'm sure most families would like

naked Natalie Portman for dinner. :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. I know this particular family would.

:blush:

[Arugula Latte]

19. Jesus! The amount of soda some people drink!

x(

[flvegan]

20. Can't blame that family in Mexico.

They've got the GOOD Coke.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Yep. At least they are drinking pure sugar, and not HFCS.

Much better for you.

In the sense that a lot of sugar can be good for you, of course.

[LeftyMom]

22. The average Mexican toddler drinks half a can of Coke a day.

That's why they're going to supplant the US as the fattest country on Earth sometime in the fairly near future.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Obesity is probably the only thing left that the U.S. is still number one in.

And they're gonna take that away from us?

Oh, wait...We're undoubtedly still number one in mass murder shooting sprees, so I guess we can still retain our title in something.

[LeftyMom]

28. USA! USA!

:patriot:

[pitohui]

32. we haven't been #1 in obesity for years, they must assume we don't travel

the uk and mexico for two are some supposedly thin people who will never see their feet again, that's for damn sure...even the japanese who as a matter of self image consider themselves small and size seats on the bus accordingly...ain't

what's most pitiful is the dutch, tallest people in the world, check out royal dutch airlines where even first class has a MIDDLE seat, that's a delusional people lying to themselves about big they've gotten

the world is fat and getting fatter and americans only flatter themselves when they pretend that they are still the biggest people on the planet

fuck, i've met people from india (south asia, not native americans) who are simply humongous and there is no other word for it...and when i was little my mom used to try to get me to eat by guilt tripping me w. starving people in india, ha, not in my lifetime, ma

[flvegan]

38. "people from india (south asia, not native americans)"

Native Americans are from India? See, now that's news.

Obesity as flattering. More news.

Not being #1 in obesity. News of the day.

[LeftyMom]

39. I just looked it up. 30.4% of Americans are obese, 24.2% of Mexicans, and down from there.

Only three countries in Europe even top 15%: the UK, Slovakia, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg.

Before you mistake your opinion for a fact, use The Google. :eyes:

[flvegan]

40. How flattering for us!

:eyes:

[LeftyMom]

41. Since my family is Hungarian-American, should I be doubly flattered?

:sarcasm:

[flvegan]

42. I'm a Brit, so I'll "never see my feet again" apparently

HA! I'm obesity-er than you-oo.

[LeftyMom]

43. No you're not, there was some business about tea and shooting a few years back.

Silly fatty. :eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. As always, words of pure blissful wisdom, dropping from the heavens as the lightest and holiest dew

on a spring morning.

[BlueStateGirl]

25. Wow. Soft drinks in almost every photo. KFC in China.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. Looking them all over

I think I would most like to walk like an Egyptian over to their house for dinner.

[PfcHammer]

33. all that food reprsents a ton of crap

literally. :rofl:

[PfcHammer]

34. all that food reprsents a ton of crap

literally. :rofl:

[elshiva]

35. Our family has been using two different food banks

as well as the foodstamps. The food banks give us a lot of canned food and boxes. IT IS NOT SHIT! It is canned vegetables and fruit. Also, cereals like Cheerios and raisin bran that are good grains. I am very thankful that we have canned food. And yes, we do get fresh vegetables at the supermarket with the food stamps.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

44. America and Britain are the worst.

I like the Asian and Middle Eastern tables the most.