A Week In Groceries Around the World

[weinoo]

This article from Reality Pod is pretty awesome. Not much written, but great photos of families in different countries and the food they buy and eat over the course of a week.

Almost everyone has bananas! And it's sad to see how little some have to get by on when we think about how much waste there is, certainly in the good old USA.

Of course, if you read through the comments, there are the usual number of idiots.

[Darienne]

Wonder why they picked the particular families. Virtuous Canadians have only a few cans of pop. ????

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Interesting to see that they chose a highland family in Ecuador, too - the coast's weekly groceries are really different. They're also leaving out the fact that the family pictured likely raises their own chickens or cuyes - protein isn't represented in what they bought, but it's a big part of the Ecuadorian diet.

[huiray]

This is from a book published six years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422

I remember reading an article with extracts from the book (basically that photo slideshow) in Time magazine, and discussions about it on, uhh, another food forum years ago. (I just checked, yes, those discussions are there. ;-) )