Ever wondered just how much food gets consumed in one week on a cruise ship? I got these stats from the Carnival Freedom, a behemoth that holds over 4000 people, and hosted my first cruise experience.
That's replenished every week, for just one of the many dozens of cruise ships feasting their way around the world. Here's an article about food supply on a cruise ship. What to make of all of this, in a world where people go hungry?
I defer to the Roman poet Horace, who wrote:
"Clogged with excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
Then he drank some more wine and fondled some grapes.
- 24,500 cans of soda
- 28,150 bottles of beer (on the wall?)
- 4,000 litres of liquor
- 3,502 bottles of wine
- 1000 lbs of coffee
- 900 gallons of milk
- 22,000 eggs
- 3,000 lbs of fresh tomatoes
- 7,000 pizzas
- 4,800 hamburger
- 2,200 hot dogs
- 6,000 lbs of beef
- 6,500 lbs of chicken
- 36,000 slices of bacon
- 4,320 bananas
- 2,500 apples
- 12,900 slices of white bread
- 6,700 lbs of potatoes
- 900 lbs of salmon
- 1000 lbs of lobster tail
- 2,500 steaks
- 20,000 Danish pastries
- 5,400 heads of lettuce
- 1,100 pineapples
That's replenished every week, for just one of the many dozens of cruise ships feasting their way around the world. Here's an article about food supply on a cruise ship. What to make of all of this, in a world where people go hungry?
I defer to the Roman poet Horace, who wrote:
"Clogged with excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
Then he drank some more wine and fondled some grapes.
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