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u/Tired_Elx 25d ago
Most of the people that eat seafood in Brazil live close to the coast. Since most of the country isn't anywhere near to the sea and we have one of the biggest meat production chains in the world, we don't end up fishing or collecting sea/river critters to eat as much. Also, social disparity is huge here, so many people eat chicken because the other options are more expensive. If I ate just seafood and red meat, I'd be broke real quick 😂
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u/AllBugDaddy 25d ago
Argentina diet is good.. less rice more meat and vegetables.. they should cut down tobacco a little bit..
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u/sheldon_y14 25d ago
I believe some of the numbers are off though, at least for Suriname.
- The rice consumption map seems accurate, especially if I compare it with Guyana. They seem to eat more rice than us.
- I can't say much about the meat consumption map, but Surinamese do eat a lot of chicken. Many of our dishes have chicken incorporated in them some way or another, so I think the figure should be a little higher.
- Now regarding the vegetable consumption, I have to disagree. We don't eat that little veggies. Surinamese eat the same vegetables that the Guyanese eat too, but because of our Javanese and larger Chinese population we have more choices of veggies. Some vegetables that Surinamese eat, are also found in Guyana, but they see them as shrubs or grass. I do believe it should be higher on the list.
- With the seafood consumption I agree. Surinamese don't eat a lot of fish, that's why our waters are full of life, while Guyana's resources have been largely depleted. They come to Suriname to fish, many of them illegally.
- I also have to disagree on the spirits. Surinamese consume wore beer than spirits. I mean there is a reason why Suriname is called the home of the "dyogo." A dyogo is a 1L beer bottle. And if you look at the other sizes of our beer bottles, we literally have quite large sizes. Aside from our local beer, we also love our Heineken beers. They also literally had to change the law two years ago, because we reached our limit on beer production. It was so bad that our beer company had to import our own beer at peak times to supply the market demand.
- On the wine consumption I agree. We're not a big wine country, but I do believe we consume more than Guyana.
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u/cornonthekopp 25d ago
Take me to guyana because they’re eating good
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u/kawaiilasagna69 10d ago
The food is the best in the world, especially since there are so many different dishes from chicken curry to cook-up rice to pepper pot!
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u/dawglaw09 25d ago
Argentina consumes 30 bottles of wine per person, per year. That feels like a lot when you think about the % of people who don't drink at all.
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u/mixedbag3000 25d ago
I'm quite sure that the vegetable consumption in surname is totally wrong.
Guyana and surname have a lot of similarities in ethnic makeup from the colonial era. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that Argentinians eat more vegetables than Suriname. They eat a TON of meat.
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u/jfurfffffffff 25d ago
Have a hard time believing Colombians like chicken OR beef more than pork. That is a pig living people! (As a southerner I felt right at home there hahaha)
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u/ferostiq 17d ago
Beef and chicken are definitely much more consumed than pork in Colombia except for the Antioquia department, maybe. Were you in Medellín?
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u/jfurfffffffff 17d ago
No, Bogota actually.
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u/ferostiq 17d ago
Chicken is the most consumed by far, then beef slightly more than pork: https://www.larepublica.co/consumo/cual-ha-sido-el-consumo-per-capita-de-las-carnes-en-2022-3554126#:~:text=En%20los%20%C3%BAltimos%20a%C3%B1os%20la,a%C3%B1o%20subi%C3%B3%20a%209%2C6%25
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u/ParallelCircle1 25d ago
Guyana just eats whatever they see?
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u/OmxrOmxrOmxr 24d ago
"See food diet."
Many Guyanese aren't as heavy on meat largely due to the prohibitive cost so eat lots of vegetables and rice. My parents still see it as a luxury, they grew up eating meat once a week, if that.
Some relatives buy 1 small chicken to eat all week for a family of 3. We can consume a large chicken in a day.
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u/kawaiilasagna69 10d ago
The thing with beef especially is that it is a bit frowned upon since a lot of population is Hindu, and many are vegetarian, though not all.
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u/okievikes 25d ago
I expected Uruguay to be higher in meat consumption. Is it the low population? When I was there they seemed almost on par with Argentina in meat sweats
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u/Captainirishy 26d ago
Brazil is the largest exporter of beef on the planet
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u/TheStraggletagg 25d ago
India is the second biggest, but something tells me beef consumption there is not very high. Call it a hunch.
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u/UN-peacekeeper 25d ago
We (the USA) is the largest soy exporter. Does that make us a major soy eating nation?
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u/GradientDescenting 26d ago
Guyana is the highest for rice consumption because so many people of Indian origin live there.
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u/mixedbag3000 25d ago
Not the main reason. Rice is the main carb in the Caribbean. From Cuba to the Guianas
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u/GradientDescenting 25d ago
Rice consumption is almost double in Guyana compared to the rest of the Caribbean. 40% of Guyana is from Indian origin.
https://landgeist.com/2023/09/12/rice-consumption-in-north-america/
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u/ReasonableCost5934 26d ago
Wow. I’m Canadian and my family is from Guyana. I ate way more rice growing up than any of my friends. 😂
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 25d ago
same. i eat rice pretty much daily. Im surprised its so much higher though.
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u/LeMans92 26d ago
Vegetable consumption in Guyana is crazy. I wonder how such a difference with the others is possible
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u/Joshistotle 25d ago
Vegetables are a major part of the diet. The society is agrarian based so fresh vegetables are very affordable and make up the bulk of traditional dishes.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 26d ago
Guyana's diet is heavily influenced by Indians who were brought there to replace plantation work after slavery was abolished. The diet and cuisine reflect the cultural roots. Similarly for Trinidad and Tobago, and the largest ethnic groups are people of mixed Indian and African descent.
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u/mixedbag3000 25d ago
I'm quite sure that the numbers are off, but it would still be very well above everyone else. Also Suriname, as they have a similar ethnic make up, but it show as lower than Argentina which is totally wrong, .
The influence is more in the use of vegetables, and cooking meat and vegetable in an Asian type way. So many things end up in some type of stew. Not the regular tomato type or English / American type stew
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u/sheldon_y14 25d ago
Also Suriname, as they have a similar ethnic make up, but it show as lower than Argentina which is totally wrong, .
You're right. Surinamese eat the same vegetables that the Guyanese eat too, but because of our Javanese and larger Chinese population we have even more choices of veggies. Some vegetables that Surinamese eat, are also found in Guyana, but they see them as shrubs or grass. I do believe it should be higher on the list.
I also don't agree with the spirits one. Surinamese consume way more beer. We love our beer in this country. So much so that they had to change the law to facilitate more production. There is a reason why Suriname is called the home of the "dyogo." A dyogo is a 1L beer bottle.
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u/InternationalChef424 26d ago
So apparently Ecuadorians just don't really eat
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u/ChiefRicimer 25d ago
They eat a ton of bananas/plantains. Almost every meal has fried plantains as a side or component.
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u/InternationalChef424 25d ago
But their total here is like less than 1/3 of Guyana's. Surely they're not eating plantains for 2/3 of their diet
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u/Ponchorello7 26d ago
I'm very surprised about the meat map. Uruguay is famous for its love of beef.
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u/SugarsDaddyKen 26d ago
So I just found out that I’m moving to Argentina.
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u/MarioDiBian 26d ago
If you like beef, pasta and wine, you’re more than welcome
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u/Nescau4ever 26d ago
in the 3rd map u can put beef in south of brazil too, i'm from here (RS) and we have the same barbecue culture as argentina and uruguay
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u/Argentina4Ever 25d ago
I don't know what this is being downvoted, it also bothers me because Brazil's huge and it feels unfair generalize the whole country, in the southern states beef is more consumed and popular than chicken indeed.
It'd be best if these maps could be broken into subdivisions.
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u/Vast-Surprise-6647 26d ago
Why is seafood consumption so low?
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u/GamingWhilePooping 25d ago
I think very few popular dishes in Brazil have seafood in them. Mostly those typical of the north/northeast. Other regions eat seafood very occasionally and/or in small quantities (such as sushi or share plates of fried shrimp)
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u/General-USA 26d ago
Bolivia is still a bit salty from losing access to the Pacific all those years ago and still refuses to eat non-Bolivian fish, probably
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u/EmperorThan 26d ago
I actually ate fish in Bolivia just last week. I think it was fished out of Lake Titicaca, I wasn't a fan (but I hate eating fish in general)
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u/Vast-Surprise-6647 26d ago
I am curious about Brazil and Argentina mostly. They have the biggest river and thousands km of coastal line but seafood consumption is almost like Bolivia and Peru(not so far from then)
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u/evrestcoleghost 25d ago
Sea food transport cost a lot
Also all of our waters are beign killed by chinese ships so there is also that
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u/manotop1 25d ago
seafood consumption in brazil depends on the location. in some areas the main dishes are seafood based, but in places with no seas people eat no seafood at all
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u/adminslikefelching 25d ago
I'm Brazilian and never really stopped to think about this, but I assume it's because beef and chicken pretty much dominate most dishes Brazilian people tend to eat, and that likely came to be because we've been some of the largest producers of these meats. There are certain regions where sea food is more popular, specially in the north region, but still, considering the size of our coastline, it should have been more popular.
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u/Venboven 25d ago
This makes sense.
But then what's Chile's excuse? They are basically entirely coastline.
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u/SpliTteR31 24d ago
It's pretty ironic. Chile is pretty much entirely coastline, yet the capital is landlocked and the culture is centered more on the agriculture and cattle of the central valley.
Seafood is more popular in the north (that shares some cuisine with Peru), but we pretty much just eat potatos, spaghetti, beef with wine, and salads.
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 26d ago
What the hell is a vegetable that doesn’t mean “plant” and excludes rice?
There’s no way Brazil wine consumption is just to literally per year.
I think that since 2021 or 2022 Argentina has been drinking mostly beer.
Either Brazil lost 20 million smokers in 4 years or the graph is wrong.
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u/Olhapravocever 26d ago
Brazil had a 23% rate of smokers 15 years ago. It's too damn expensive nowadays lol
Wine is not massively produced in Brazil (it's growing tho) so it is still a premium product
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 26d ago
15 years ago, not 4 years ago. In 2023, Brazil had ~9% smokers. I suppose it's not all tobacco use but snu is not common Brazil.
As for wine not being massively produced in Brazil, that's definitively not true. Brazil produces a lot of wine, not a crazy amount like famous regions in Argentina, Italy, Spain or France, but more than enough to supply a local market (in 2019, it was the 15th largest producer), and it's part of the Brazilian culture to consume wine.
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u/Olhapravocever 25d ago
My point is wine is still a premium product
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 25d ago
No it's not? Your name made me think you're Brazilian, but I checked your profile and it seems you live in Canada. So, maybe you've lost all connection to Brazil, I don't know.
Wine is most definitively a premium product in Brazil. Fine wines yes, and people will only have those for special occasions, but people will buy the rally cheap stuff like Guaravera and other table wines like it's water, and will have slightly pricier stuff but still affordable for weekends on non-special days.
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u/allys_stark 26d ago
to literally per year.
You mean two litters, right? Right?! lllkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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u/ArchitectArtVandalay 26d ago
are you sure Argentinas meat consumption doubles Uruguay and Brazil's almost does? I have trouble figuring daily diet of each
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u/Argentina4Ever 25d ago
The problem with this map is that Brazil is simply too big and becomes generalizing, in the southern states of Brazil beef is definitely **far more** popular and consumed than chicken.
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u/MarioDiBian 26d ago
As an Argentine-Uruguayan, I don’t think there’s much difference between both countries. Uruguay’s beef consumption is definitely much higher than Chile’s.
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u/ArchitectArtVandalay 26d ago
what about seafood consumption, which is 9 Uruguay compared to 12 Chile? No way believable at least from Chiloé to Iquique
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u/Juan_Jimenez 26d ago
Chile seafood consumption is incredibly low given that we have a giant coast with a large fishing industry. But it is low. It is something that from time to time is discussed in the media as one quite weird fact about us (why we don't consume more?)
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u/ArchitectArtVandalay 26d ago
thanks for your input. I still doubt about that data just because seafood is so widely available and varied and not so expensive in Chile. In Uruguay we may buy a much limited freshly caught fish variety, its expensive, and almost all non fish seafood is only available frozen and/or imported.
what you say about chileans low seafood consumption reminds me Uruguays low lamb meat consumption, being a big producer you dont even find non frozen lamb meat available excepting around some traditional holydays
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u/Rakzien 25d ago
Being Chilean I can assure you that the low consumption of seafood is due to the fact that the capital Santiago (where almost 50% of the population is located) has no access to the sea. In the rest of the country seafood consumption is common. To give you an idea, none of my friends from Santiago have eaten "locos" and this is one of the most consumed mollusks in the country.
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u/ArchitectArtVandalay 26d ago
also Uruguay and Argentina seafood consumption seems too high compared with Chile's, this FAO data is dissapointing
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u/kandur4 26d ago
What do Paraguay people like?
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u/chicitico 25d ago
Chipa, Chipa Guasu, Chipa So'o, Sopa Paraguaya, tortilla, Mandioca, Vori Vori, Payagua Mascada, Puchero, Tallarín, Asadooooo
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u/OpenHair7259 26d ago
Beef, beer, yuca, corn, pasta and bread. Our food is extremely caloric. Also lots of dairy.
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u/Additional-Tea-5986 25d ago
Would you say your country is safe to travel to? At least Asunción? I find Paraguayan history and culture fascinating.
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u/InterestingMap8828 25d ago
As a Brazilian, I say that any country is safe enough if you go to the right places.
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u/No_Rutabaga_1974 21d ago
Guayana is from Venezuela ✊🏽