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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 141 points 7 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 62 points 7 months ago

Nah these people are 1/3 caffeine.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, they are having an amazing time per capita.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] casmael@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Yeah I was going to say - interesting, but presumably per capita?

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[-] BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 104 points 7 months ago

I know the coffee bit is bullshit (https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/) so likely the other stuff is too

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 51 points 7 months ago

Person who made this mixes absolute and per capita measurements. Probably in more than one category

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

No Australia in that list at all??? Not sure how we sit, but boy do we hit coffee hard in this country

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 102 points 7 months ago

Nope - Finland is #1 coffee consumer. By a lot.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 102 points 7 months ago

It's not correct about tacos either. I wouldn't even call what they're eating in Europe "tacos".

The US has got to be eating the second largest amount of tacos in the world. Not only are there millions of Mexicans in the country, tacos are part of the national cuisine.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Should I be informing some kind of official census each time I eat tacos at home?

[-] greenhorn@lemm.ee 41 points 7 months ago

Are you publicly admitting to not filling out your Daily Ration and Nutrient Survey? I'd delete this

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago

Yes. It might even be that Sweden is second in Europe at least, but I may remember the last statistic I saw on that wrong.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 13 points 7 months ago

Indeed, multiple countries come before the US on this chart too if I remember correctly.

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[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Would be funny if it wasn't complete bs. Except for the amazing time part. They're fun folk.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 65 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Fish@midwest.social 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 20 points 7 months ago

After the first stat it's probably normalized to population.

[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 13 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 38 points 7 months ago

Another odd thing is that their oil fund owns about 1.5% of all globally listed stock shares. That's a lot by capita, since their population is less than 0.07% of the global population.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 7 months ago

There's simply no way Norway has the US beat for total taco consumption; even per capita consumption would be impressive.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seriously. Southern CA alone is 4-5x the population of all of Norway, and that region often has 3-4 taco shops per block when it’s allowed by zoning.

Edit: the USA has 75,000 Mexican restaurants. That means that there are only 73 people in Norway for every Mexican restaurant in the United States.

The average restaurant in the USA serves 100 people per day. That means that, on average, US Mexican restaurants serve more people daily than the entire population of Norway.

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[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago
[-] Johandea@feddit.nu 17 points 7 months ago

That cannot be right. The usa isn't even in top ten of coffee consumption

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Bull-fucking-shit that USA consumes more coffee per capita than Sweden, Finland and Norway. https://coffeeabout.com/coffee-consumption-by-country/

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[-] adam_y@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] folekaule@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

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.

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[-] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Somebody's conflating per capita and volume.

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago

Also Norway is the country with the second most of Norway in their country. Just right after Hawaii.

And they are the second most planet in the galaxy. Just after the time lords.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Ah to have natural resource riches and a liberal society!

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago

Per capita it's Finland that drinks the most coffee apparently in total numbers it's USA, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia...

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

You forgot the most important one, Norway is the world's first country of electrical car ownership by percentage, yet they are among the world's highest oil and gas producers, and they like to call themselves the most eco-friendly country in the world.

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[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago

And somehow they're still depressed as shit, or so I heard.

[-] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Well given how much sun they get and thus vitamin D, no wonder.

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Ok, wait, USA consumes the most coffee, I can believe that. But do they actually consume the most caffeine?

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

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