Interesting that Laos, the highest consumer of fruit, borders Cambodia, one of the lowest consumers
Southeast Asia has hundreds of varieties. In the US we have the boring ass Cavendish. Bummer
Jesus fucking Christ Japan go buy an orange what the fuck bro!
Oranges are considered a delicacy in Japan, they don't have them over there :costanza-bat:
They're pulling Yemen numbers and they're not even under a blockade and famine.
southeast asia has some crazy fruit though. my girlfriend is going nuts because a store got some mangosteen in, which she first tried when she was in Bali.
I've had mangosteens, they were popular for a brief period in the early 2010s
but they obviously are gonna taste WAY worse because nothing ripe can survive a shipment across state lines, let alone one across the Pacific ocean
it's one of the few pleasures that rich people can't enjoy, which poor people (in tropical countries at least) can
Googling also brought this up:
The purple mangosteen, a coveted fruit in Thailand, was once banned in the U.S. because officials feared importing the fruit would introduce the Asian fruit fly into the U.S. The ban was lifted in 2007, but imported mangosteen must first be irradiated to rid it of the fruit flies.
unless youre rich enough to have time and money to go to SE Asia often.
Why does Mongolia in particular hate fruit? You can't blame the climate since even Russia is way better..
:expert-shapiro: Middle school special interest time
Despite being the 19th largest nation on Earth, less than 2% of that is arable. Combined with the extremely cold landscape demanding a fat heavy diet, Mongolians eat relatively little plant matter compared to the rest of the world and largely subsist off of meat and dairy
The places most Russians live is in the west where the climate is better for growing fruit. Also Mongolia is relatively poorer, so they probably import less stuff, including fruit, too.
Probably hard to grow it there, and 75% of all agricultural land is dedicated to pasture too, so little space for it, also incredibly dry with over 200 days of sun per year. Russia is also a giant country with varying climates spanning throughout it. Mongolia has this. I think it makes perfect sense for the people of Mongolia to consume little fruit
Livestock, cows, goats, camels, yaks, chickens, the works.
edit: I just now clicked off my inbox to see that your question has already been answered, oops.
Siberia is way colder than Europe. half of Mongolia is also desert.
Also, Russia is 3x richer than Mongolia, so the latter can't import food.
What you'll notice about particular foods is that they're only consumed by
- rich people
- people in the lands where it grows locally
same thing for meat, where all rich nations eat a lot, but some of the land-rich-sparsely-populated 3rd world nations (South Americans, Kazakhs, and also Mongolians) also eat a lot.
it wouldnt surprise me if all that fruit is imported/wild berries.
This is totally a shot in the dark, but one of my close friends is Mongolian and she's like "people love their meat, it's a bit of macho thing", although I'm sure geography matters. I think traditionally they've been pastoral.
dont forget drinking fermented horsemilk kum(is)
and drinking pregnant mare piss for hrt :trans-undertale:
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Albanians are the fruit kings of Europe.
That color scheme is horrible, it's not a fucking ordered gradient
Nah the image one is fine, the one on link is horrible, specially if you're color blind like me
It's not that good. The weed there is like if you could possibly make Mexican brick worse.
I'm pretty sure they just use hemp lol.
What is up with Pakistan and Bangladesh, why is it so much lower than India. Shout-out to Sri Lanka for being the subcontinental champ
pakistan is mad dry. a lotta lotta desert.
no clue on bangladesh
Oh man, Oman eats a lot of fruit. (Oman is the country next to Yemen that SA isn't genociding right now).
