Brands a world over
A rather cool photo essay appears on Time magazine's website this week, detailing everything families from around the world consume in a week, and their weekly food expenses. From a family of six in Chad preparing soup from bags of grain for $1.23 a week, to developed nations like Japan and the United States, spending upwards of $300+ a week, it is visually interesting to get a peek inside the world's cupboards.
The photo essay can be found here: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html
It is also kind of cool, from a marketing perspective, to play 'find the American brands' in almost every photo. In the photo of a Kuwaiti family (8 people for about $220 a week), I picked out the brand logos for Lipton, Ritz, Kelloggs Corn Flakes and Heinz. In Beijing (4 people for about $155 a week), there's KFC. In Poland (5 people for about $150 a week), there's M&Ms, Coca-Cola and Pedigree dog food and Whiskas cat food for the family pets. These brands are all so normalizing.
I'll leave the rest of the photos be for your own Where's Waldo pleasure.
