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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: European food prices?
- Message-ID: <C1GxuE.GyF@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:01:25 GMT
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- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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- efenster@igc.apc.org (Eric Fenster) wrote:
- [ about a query on how much to allow for food per day in Europe, $15 being
- the target ]
- > Food prices in Europe for many items are much higher than in the US.
-
- As are food prices for many items in the US. It depends on what you want
- to eat. A recent survey published in several British papers compared
- (mostly) the sort of packaged foods you buy in supermarkets: these worked
- out slightly more expensive in the UK than in the US (to about the same
- extent as Australia was cheaper than the US) and a bit higher again in
- France. (And one mystery of that survey was that Heinz baked beans, which
- are made by a US transnational corporation from a US-grown raw product, are
- cheaper in the UK than anywhere else in the world). And some branded
- products ubiquitous and basic in the US are obscure and premium-priced
- delicatessen foods elsewhere. But if you tried to find what most French
- people eat in American shops you'd pay a *hell* of a lot more for that, too.
-
- On the other hand, if your aim isn't eating the same stuff you do at home
- but getting a good nutrient intake of interesting food, you shouldn't have
- too much trouble meeting the $15/day target anywhere in the world, *if* you
- adapt to local food customs and know where to buy the stuff. It's *always*
- going to be more expensive to eat in a foreign country, no matter *where*
- you come from or where you're visiting, if you don't know how to tell cheap
- from expensive places. And that means rather more detailed information
- than you're going to get here.
-
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