Sunday, January 01, 2012

No Wonder My Pants Feel a Little Tighter

The Average American Ate (Literally) A Ton This Year : The Salt : NPR: But what are most Americans really eating? A lot of cheese, sweets, and dense potatoes and grains.

So how does it break out? The figure is a little hard to swallow: 1,996 pounds, or nearly one ton. This is an estimate of how much — by weight — the average American eats over the course of one year.

3 comments:

Cap'n Bob said...

I do about half of that at Tankon.

Anonymous said...

It's all on french fries and Big Macs... and chips.

Cap'n Bob said...

BTW, when I read your caption I thought you were running another sexy Paris Hilton photo.

WV: sightsy--what tourists do.