Re: The cost of food

"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> from jJohn Klausner <somis.7@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

> Just goes to show why blogs are not reliable sources of true facts.
> Here's just one example;
>
> According to the blogger, his photographed "average family" of 2
> parents 2 kids in Beijing spends 1233 yuan per week on food, which is
> over 63,000 yuan per year.
>
> The average ANNUAL WAGE in Beijing, is around 26,000 yuan. (2003
> official figure) .An average family in Beijing with two earners
> certainly could not spend 63,000 yuan PA on food. The Chinese have very
> little processed, packaged junk food available to buy, so it's not
> credible to see that family with a stack of packets and tins. Nor would
> an average family of that generation have two children.

And did you notice the packaged meat on polystyrene trays? There 10 packs
of it! That is a hell of a lot of meat and a very untraditionla way for
Chinese to buy their food. It's way more meat than we would eat in our
house let alone a family supposedly located in Beijing.


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