- 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.