food prices and diets of families around the world
started by flimflam2 3 mnths agoFlat
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I read that article a while back. There was also another article on BBC about neglected agricultural sector is affecting India. Have u read that?
no, i haven't. i'd like to read it.
similar to the bbc survey i posted above is another i saw about a year ago, on what people from around the world buy each week - it may have been only food or it may have been all grocery store items. the article included a photograph of all the items they'd buy in a week, with the family standing around them.
the food eaten by families from the lower-to-middle-income countries, e.g., egypt, appeared to be fresher and healthier than that eaten by families from the industrialized countries. the latter included a much larger percent of packaged and processed foods, and bottled drinks.
i'll post a link to it if i can find it.
flimflam
similar to the bbc survey i posted above is another i saw about a year ago, on what people from around the world buy each week - it may have been only food or it may have been all grocery store items. the article included a photograph of all the items they'd buy in a week, with the family standing around them.
the food eaten by families from the lower-to-middle-income countries, e.g., egypt, appeared to be fresher and healthier than that eaten by families from the industrialized countries. the latter included a much larger percent of packaged and processed foods, and bottled drinks.
i'll post a link to it if i can find it.
flimflam
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Seeming contradition - if that is 20% the family makes just Rs 1,00,000/mo ? for 2 people ?for 2 people to earn and live like that the salary is too low - that too, for bombay jobs... Somthing is not right. Certainly this family cannot be an example for India.
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the difficulty of eating out twice a week is in the time and effort required, perhaps more than the expense, unless the children's nanny accompanies them, or the children stay home. imagine getting two children, eight and five, dressed and ready, and making one's way to and from a restaurant in mumbai, with the children falling asleep on their way back, twice a week!
in any case, the mhatres are an entirely atypical indian family, even for the middle class, and shouldn't have been surveyed.
did you see the kenyans in their beautiful clothes?
flimflam
## you are stupid
## what's the difference in going to a restaurant in Mumbai versus doing the same in a town of not-so-insignificant size?
in any case, the mhatres are an entirely atypical indian family, even for the middle class, and shouldn't have been surveyed.
## You are even more stupid that I thought.
## How many middle-class families do you know about or you have visited in India in recent times?
## They are a typical middle class Indian family living in a metro.
## Telling you one more time, stick to spell-check and harassement of posters..
Among the several families I was in touch for 3 weeks, I did not see any family go out to eat to gether. Indiavidually yes... a dinner there or a lunch here. But not as a family to any restaurant. And I am talking about guys owning successful businesses and a few gen Managers and Senior Managers in 30s to 50s.
Going to a restaurant as if on a regular basis - that too twice a week, and tlak about Salads fruits, and eggs and meats and nutrition in the same breath is quite funny..
reminds me of a lady who used to boast repeatedly to fellow Maamis: she claimed 9always) to make pooris 2x/week, idly 2s, Dosai 2x, Chappati 2x, Upma 2x, Kesari 2x for "tippin" every week. She always forgot a week only had 7 days... Give some room for these middle class women, they will drive a big chevy through that gap.
Looking at Pinky's post below, I'm now thinking Pinky is also a middle-class woman from Delhi, pretending to be a macho guy (living out her Punju parents' dream of having a boy-child).
Phlegmy,
see ## below
## haha
## I see that you did not have any thing to add, that's good, my 2 cents spent wisely..
the snarling, frothing at the mouth, and the general loss of control you just displayed here were worth every word of my post!
flimflam