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Posted by ++ on August 25, 2008, 5:22 pm
Kris Krieger wrote:
> d453c931e059@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
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>>>> Pretty amazing photo essay. I really wish there were high resolution
>>>> pictures so you could zoom in on the specific foods.
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>>>> http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
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>>> THat *is* interesting. THe settings were also intersting.
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>>> (I do tend to forget just how much junk food other Americans eat :P )
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>> Did you see how much soda the Mexicans drank? Unbelievable. I'd like
>> to think that the people writing and shooting the pictures really got
>> to the root of the matter regarding what the people _really_ eat, not
>> just what they said they ate. I'll have to look at it again, but I
>> noticed beer in the German photo, but not in most of the others.
>> Alcohol would obviously skew the cost of the "food".
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> Actually, I was amazed at how many of the pics did, in fact, show rather a
> large amount of sodas and boxes/bags of US brand faux-foods.
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> THe absence of beer in US photos doesn't surprise me - these days, if someone
> asks you whether you drink and if so, how much, if you say anythign other
> than "rarely - just the occasional social drink", you just about find
> yourself being hauled off to an AA meeting =>:-p
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While some new brewpubs are opening, many more are closing with some of
the large breweries aping the micro product. A local surprise was the
demise of Christian Heurich
Many of the photos were not typical, but rather location specific. A
typical Chinese diet sure isn't what you saw for the family in Beijing.
Another anomaly in the collection was not to post a per person cost
along with the typical market basket. Family of eight don't compare well
with the typical double income no kids somewhere or another, nor were
the choices necessarily representive of typical extended families and
family sizes in given locales
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