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The Big Mac serves as an interesting economic tool -- providing a global standard for comparing national currencies and economic activity. Analyzing the Big Mac consumption per country can show interesting trends in wages and how economies reacted to the Great Recession -- although not every country sells Big Macs. [url]

The price of a Big Mac jumped 26% in Argentina because the government of Argentina was playing around with its national inflation numbers -- and pressuring McD's to keep its prices low. If Big Macs didn't lose their freshness, there might have been an arbitrage opportunity.... [url]

The number two burger chain in the US (for 2011) goes to Wendy's -- as Wendy's US sales topped $8.5 billion and Burger King trailed at $8.4 billion. McDonald's crushed both of them with $34 billion in sales last year. [url]

The US consumed almost 38 million tons of meat in 2007 (at 125.4 kg per person), but Luxembourg is the country with the highest meat consumption per capita (136.5 kg per person). Obviously, population figures into Luxembourg's bragging rights -- and likewise China's population makes its consumption of 54.1kg of meat per person an impressive total of around 77 million tons. [url]

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20120504/19304018792 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:00:00 PDT DailyDirt: Food By The Numbers... Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/05015411966/dailydirt-food-numbers.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/05015411966/dailydirt-food-numbers.shtml Reese's peanut butter cups infographics about food. Here are just a few random sets of data on food consumption in the US.

Just as you probably already knew: Thin Mints are the most popular Girl Scout cookies, raking in about 25% of Girl Scout cookie sales. Samoas (aka Caramel deLites) come in at #2 with 19% of sales. [url]
What does the average American consume in a year? Hmm: 110 lbs of red meat vs 415 lbs of vegetables? Do those numbers sound right to you? [url]
In a survey of 500 "dudes" (ages 18-35), 90% of them had visited a McDonald's in the last 3 months. It's gotta be the fries -- a surprisingly high percentage of guys just get a drink or fries. [url]
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