Probably per capita
Nah these people are 1/3 caffeine.
Their cross country skiers might be 🤷
Yeah i he’s dropping the 5mil bombshell as if that was mindblowing. 5 million people drink almost as much coffee as 150 million? Craaaazy
they have 20 hour long nights in the winter. they probably need coffee to function
Coffee is remarkable for the digestive system.
Yes, they are having an amazing time per capita.
Yeah I was going to say - interesting, but presumably per capita?
Probably? Lol. Bro
Even then it’s not true. Sweden and Finland regularly trade first place when it comes to coffee consumption per capita.
So that the US sold be in first is just not true. And if I know for fact that’s not true. I have serious doubts about the rest of his claims
I know the coffee bit is bullshit (https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/) so likely the other stuff is too
No Australia in that list at all??? Not sure how we sit, but boy do we hit coffee hard in this country
I was curious so went digging a little.
This page says 2.2M 60KG bags in 2023 which works out at just over 5KG per capita (2.2 x 60M / 26M). That would put Australia around Croatia level on that graph.
So something smells. Not sure if it’s the dry weight part as roasted coffee is lighter than the unroasted beans that come in those huge bags but those beans are dried. Maybe that graph is just plain wrong.
Anyway… It looks like you guys are fair coffee junkies alright.
Person who made this mixes absolute and per capita measurements. Probably in more than one category
Well it might just be a mistake.
Norway is second on that per capita list and USA is first in tonnage. I could see how USA first, Norway second could be bungled out of that. Perhaps after a glass of wine or two. Or three maybe.
12KG of dried beans per capita is astounding. Those Scandinavians are giants among us.
I drink about 11kg dried beans on average. Daily brew is 60g and I drink half, so 30g. 365*30 = 10950g, just under 11 kg. There are occasional days I’ll have an extra cup out and about.
Vast majority of it is locally roasted.
I drink about 20kg of coffee per year. Those Norwegians are lightweights.
I order about 1.5kg of beans per month here in the UK, mostly from farrers in Kendal, and it’s easy to drink that much, it’s only 2 or 3 cups a day.
For comics, idk but for manga specifically the second country is France.
Yeah, I think these stats are bs, some people are also debunking the taco bit.
According to Wikipedia, France is about 40% of the European market and I don’t think Japanese read much western comics, so I don’t think that’s what we talk about.
In my perception this French anomaly comes from two factors :
- There was a French TV segment in the 90s called “club Dorothé” that imported a lot of Japanese animation, initially because it was cheaper that producing or importing other TV shows. This got a whole generation addicted to mangas and now it’s just part of culture.
- There is an actual cultural proximity between France and Japan, the most obvious part being the obsession about food.
Somebody’s conflating per capita and volume.
And this is why we should be critical to our sources, especially when it’s “some guy on the internet”.
It’s simply not true.
I always wondered if the Norwegian’s love of tacos comes from it sounding kinda like “thank you” in Norwegian
it’s not and it doesn’t. op is full of shit
thanks is “takk” which sounds like “taco” without the “o” 🤷♂️
Per capita
That cannot be right. The usa isn’t even in top ten of coffee consumption
Bull-fucking-shit that USA consumes more coffee per capita than Sweden, Finland and Norway. https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/
The site coffeeabout.com references worldatlas.com which is so full of advertising that it hangs Safari on a weak iPhone and thus I can’t dig any further for a reliable source of that info.
Pretty sure California eats more tacos
Best Norway fact I have is that their wine (and spirits) is nationalised. Anything over 4.75%.
You can only buy it from the government in places called Vinmonopolet (English: The Wine Monopoly), and it is directly taxed.
It isn’t terribly different in practice from state and local regulations in the US, except the rules in Norway are the same nationwide.
For example, where I live in Ohio, I can buy beer at the grocery store with some restrictions on Sundays. I can also buy harder liquor in the state store, which is located in a physically separated section of the grocery store and where you have to be 21 (legal drinking age) to shop. Alcohol is subject to special taxes here, as well.
In Norway I would buy beer at the grocery store then go across the street to Vinmonopolet and buy some wine. I could do that at age 18, though some harder liquor is/was restricted to 21.
So it’s not all that different, except in the US the limits are a little different, it’s more likely to be regulated at a local level, and typically run by some private for-profit entity.
Certain parts of the US (typically further southeast) anything over like 5% is exclusively in ABC Stores, a completely separate building and company from grocery stores.
Same in Finland actually.
And Sweden
Another reason for Torvalds to become sad after leaving Finland.
He moved to Sweden, which also does the same
Linus Torvalds has lived In the US for almost thirty years.
Nice.
Also, can you buy something like 96% ethanol?
It’s probably poisoned like in many countries
And it’s awesome. The staff have to actually study and pass a test so they can advise on wine selection. The selection is huge and far beyond what’s visible in the stores - and there’s a great app for ordering stuff. They even have massively subsidised wine courses and a free wine magazine that’s surprisingly good.
I highly doubt that Norwegians consume the 2nd most tacos. If there was actual data on this subject then I think that we would probably find that the US consumes the most tacos, followed by Mexico.
Mexico’s population is about 40% the size of the US population. There are also a lot of Mexicans living in the US, and there are Taco Bells everywhere.
This is per capita for sure
After the first stat it’s probably normalized to population.
I would think that to be the case, but he final line stating the population of Norway implies that these aren’t rates, but total numbers.
You’re right, of course. But I think it’s equally plausible that the original writer didn’t really grasp the difference and mixed some things up.
Can you eli5 the stat normalization thing? I failed stats in college fyi
There’s two ways to count things. You can measure total consumption, or consumption per capita (per person). If the group of 100 people eats 1000 tacos, you could report it as 1000 tacos eaten, or 10 tacos eaten per capita.
The later is more useful when comparing between groups of different sizes. The US likely consumes more total tacos than Norway, just because the population is so much larger. If we adjust for the size of the population (divide the total by the population size), Norway may be higher —if we assume the OP is correct and this is what they meant.
Thanks!
Let’s assume Norway has 5 million people and the US has 300 million people, and they’re going to have a taco eating contest.
If every American eats 1 taco, that’s ~300 million tacos eaten. If every Norwegian eats 30 tacos, that’s “only” 150 million tacos eaten (30 x 5mil = 150mil).
If we’re talking about total tacos eaten, Norway “loses” the eating competition. But that’s not really fair because the US has 60x more people participating.
If we’re talking about tacos per person (aka normalizing for the population), Norway wins the competition because each person ate 30x more tacos than the average American.
So, which country eats more tacos? The answer depends if you’re counting total number of tacos eaten, or average number of tacos eaten per person (aka per capita).
I would take on the whole of Norway in a taco eating competition as long as I can choose the tacos.
I wouldn’t win, but I’d get as many tacos as I wanted.
Thank you :)
Would be funny if it wasn’t complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They’re fun folk.
Based on their mystery novels and TV shows, everyone there is depressed and living in a stark, bleak landscape.
I’m thinking they want to discourage tourism.
I think Norway not too dissimilar to Saint Petesburg. So probably they want to discourage tourism indeed.
They also whip each other with shrubbery in the sauna. (or so I’ve heard)
Sounds legit. Same in russian banyas.
I’m from Finland (shares border with Norway) and yes, that’s a thing. I mean who wouldn’t love them some hot sweaty whipping anyhow?
Just remember to use birch and not spruce.
Skjera bagera
Ah to have natural resource riches and a liberal society!
Ok, wait, USA consumes the most coffee, I can believe that. But do they actually consume the most caffeine?
No, they’re all bullshit stats. Finland is #1 /capita with Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark also super high but not quite as high. If we’re talking total, then Norway isn’t even in top 20. Too few people. Top is something like USA, Brazil, then other big countries like Germany, France, etc.
Also France is 2nd biggest manga consumer. Googled that a few months ago when I noticed a bunch of manga stores on the street and went into one and it had lots of people.
Exactly. The US isn’t even close to the top. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-consumption-by-country
I sure as shit do my part…hopefully my heart can keep up
