How does the amount of food people eat/ate in Eastern Europe compare to how much people get to eat in poor countries today? Compared to any country in LatAm or the Caribbean or most places in Asia.
Yeah, fwiw more of them were carbs (bread and potatoes probably) and selection was non-existent (my mom often jokes they had 2 varieties of chocolate/salami/tea/anything else: Available or Unavailable), but they certainly weren't starving
How does the amount of food people eat/ate in Eastern Europe compare to how much people get to eat in poor countries today?
insanely better, particularly with meat. That picture comes out to 1/5th lb of meat per day. Try affording that as the global poor in literally any 3rd world country
How does the amount of food people eat/ate in Eastern Europe compare to how much people get to eat in poor countries today? Compared to any country in LatAm or the Caribbean or most places in Asia.
I don't know, but if I recall correctly the average USSR citizen in the 80s consumed more calories than the average US citizen in the 80s.
Yeah, fwiw more of them were carbs (bread and potatoes probably) and selection was non-existent (my mom often jokes they had 2 varieties of chocolate/salami/tea/anything else: Available or Unavailable), but they certainly weren't starving
I don't remember the source at all, but I recall reading the average Cuban consumes close to 3000 calories per day
insanely better, particularly with meat. That picture comes out to 1/5th lb of meat per day. Try affording that as the global poor in literally any 3rd world country