What We Eat.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 300, 28 April 1894, Page 4

What We Eat.

Over 2000 to ■- o mails are annual ateu in Paris. Paris killed la eir i1,8t32 "l<f horse* or roasts and soup. The English eat ry cur £'6,ou<' u-u---of American apples. The restaurants of Paris >ell i B,OOO tlozen frogs' legs a year. Last year 480,000, 00 dozr n of c* s were imported into Italy. The av<-iage man use* .91- <>i sugar per annum. A g<- cers' jo .rual e«liiu»i?» i t- j vforld'p crop of clo-e* at 5000 ton* j Europeans every year eaf 6,470,00 i/ , tons of beef, mutton, and pork The French raine and consume >n nually 350.000 bushels of mussels. The world puta on its ticiu.ls «-y^ year £600,00" worth of black i e^p-r T c annual value of tt>e «..riil' ( -.. r ;1 nuts is estimated at £13,uO ( Mjoo The consumption of meat i . i«, . , now averages 61 pounds per in Ii •<-i < ,i. per annum. Britons use mo tsalt-aboui 4o apit-ce every year ; the A men can > u>*- „\& pounds. It is said that 500 tons of cotton--, oil are annuallj refined a&d sol uii>i other names The cakes of the world are dolled wi 56,000 tons of currants, all upon f«>ni Greece The Danes are the champion cliec-. eaters, devouring 22 pounds annually each inhabitant. The world's lettuce is lubricated fur consumption with 140,000,000 gallons of genuine or fictitious olive oil. France and Spain produce 93.000 tons of sardines every jear, wnich are mostly coßt-umed by the Engh*h and the Americans The world's oyster fisheries produce annually 4,439,000,000 oysters, one-half being consumed within three days after they are taken An eminent statistician estimates that during the course of an ordinary life the average man will eat seven four«horse waggon loads more food than is good for him Italy gives to the world outside her borders 2,500,000,001> oranges, Spain, ],4i;0,000,uoo ; Portugal, 80,000,000Paraguay, 60,000,000 ; Florida, nearly as many as Paraguay. The people of Europe last year partly satisfied their appetites with 514,0 a>,imj ( . pounds of American bacon, 84,0 ) -< :n . pounds of American hams, &nd 81.0 •> > .< » « i; pounds of American pork.