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1 posted on 12/29/2007 6:50:00 PM PST by Coleus
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2 posted on 12/29/2007 6:50:44 PM PST by Coleus (Merry Christmas!!)
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To: Coleus
Purchasing Power Parity is always the best measure as to how "rich" or "poor" a person is.

I myself think that the Egyptians and Italians are eating the best, despite the cost. The family in Poland, of course, will have to adjust once the Euro enters circulation soon.

4 posted on 12/29/2007 6:57:40 PM PST by Clemenza (I NO Heart Huckabee)
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This post certainly has a lot of food for thought.


5 posted on 12/29/2007 6:59:13 PM PST by hole_n_one
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That blog has copied (without any attribution that I can see) all of the photographs and information from Time's website. This link is to the originals (and also a photograph Japanese family that the blogger didn't copy):

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html

6 posted on 12/29/2007 7:01:21 PM PST by snowsislander
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It was nice to see that the Italian family has 3 kids.


7 posted on 12/29/2007 7:01:33 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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You all need to check out BBC America’s “You Are What You Eat.” It will change your life.


10 posted on 12/29/2007 7:03:43 PM PST by ShandaLear (Extremists always meet each other full circle.)
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Fascinating!


11 posted on 12/29/2007 7:04:10 PM PST by Judith Anne (I refuse to have a tagline anymore. Nope. Not gonna do it. Won't go there.)
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A. We should help those such as the family at Breidjing Camp.

B. I think I’d like to visit an Egyptian restaurant.

12 posted on 12/29/2007 7:07:28 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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Very interesting! Though I have to wonder just how typical each of the families are.

I grew up as one of a large family (eight kids), and even with today’s prices, we’d never spend as much as the representative family. But we ate very little meat and a lot more things like vegetables and beans and rice and soups and homemade bread...homemade everything, really. Including really good pizza!

Packaged foods are pricey!


13 posted on 12/29/2007 7:09:25 PM PST by RosieCotton ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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The last picture is beyond humbling.


16 posted on 12/29/2007 7:12:01 PM PST by MeekMom (Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)
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Fascinating!

17 posted on 12/29/2007 7:12:28 PM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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So, the poorer folk have more kids. I guess that’s OK if the parents can feed them all.


18 posted on 12/29/2007 7:12:56 PM PST by matt1234
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So the message here is we’re selling food way too cheap in Chad ?

I lived (stationed) in Italy and Persian Gulf Region for almost 8 years of my 26 year career as well as SEA and other countries and food was dirt cheap. In Northern Italy near Aviano Air Base we could get a 9 course meal at Orsini’s for less than 3 dollars a person. My daily lunches and dinners locally were a dollar plus change in most cases.

In the middle east, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar etc food was as cheap but just awesome quality.

Only place where I don;t let the sun set on me or mine again is France where we paid (grudgingly) almost 12 dollars for a simple burger and soft drink....this was in 1976. I ain’t been back to that sink hole since.


20 posted on 12/29/2007 7:17:16 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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Fascinating. Thanks.


21 posted on 12/29/2007 7:17:20 PM PST by Joya (IOWA: VOTE FRED)
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Except for the Equador family, the kids who have the junk foods are smiling as opposed to those sullen faces without goodies.


22 posted on 12/29/2007 7:17:31 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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The Revis family is doing some pretty poor shopping. I could stretch that amount into two weeks of food.


23 posted on 12/29/2007 7:18:22 PM PST by linn37 (phlebotomist on duty,its just a little pinch)
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Just a hunch, the disparities may be related to the number of successful lawsuits against food producers in the various places shown. Thanks Coleus.


25 posted on 12/29/2007 7:22:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 23, 2007)
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That family from Bhutan must be eating rice with every meal. Good thing it tastes like whatever is added to it :)


26 posted on 12/29/2007 7:25:13 PM PST by matt1234
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Fascinating- thanks for the thread.

I’m amazed by the American family- I saw grapes- but not vegetables or other fruits. Lots of junk. That’s a lot of money in a week for junk.

I like the food on the Italian table- looks balanced.


30 posted on 12/29/2007 7:41:08 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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BTTT!


36 posted on 12/29/2007 8:25:50 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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