Kebab and Pizza! We only use Swedish meat!

[The Last Conformist]

That's what one of the signs on a kebab place down in the city centre, run by a bunch of Turks, whose chief claim to fame is finishing last in a survey of restaurant hygiene.

The ad works because Swedes tend to believe Swedish food, and meat in particular, is the best in the world. This isn't any particularly nationalistic attitude - the peoples of pretty much all industrialized countries think that their country makes the safest food in the world. Needless to say, the various food industries do their best to keep perceptions that way.

Now, I was wondering if anyone knew of any more-or-less objective studies as to where food actually is the healthiest?

 

[storealex]

Denmark, of course.

 

[Stapel]

Here in NL, supermarkets use the perception Irish and Argentinian beef is healthy......

 

[I am the Future]

Localy grown Corn is the the best.
But this is Illinois and we have better soil then any where(except maybe indiana) and corn is our claim to fame.

 

[ogmoir]

If there were a kebab place advertising like that here in Finland, people would have a good time laughing their asses off.

 

[Rhye]

i don't see the correlation between pizza and meat

 

[MCdread]

i don't see the correlation between pizza and meat

How italian of you...

 

[Stapel]

i don't see the correlation between pizza and meat

-Salami
-Prosciutto
-Carbonara
-Bolognese

 

[luiz]

I don't know about healthy food, but I've read studies stating that the mediterranean cuisine is the healthiest of all.

 

[Rhye]

-Salami
-Prosciutto
-Carbonara
-Bolognese

stapel, what the heck are you talking about? Do you know what pizza is?

 

[luiz]

-Salami
-Prosciutto
-Carbonara
-Bolognese

Pizza carbonara?! Pizza Bolognese?! That's heresy!

Now Pizza Calabrese is another matter entirely

 

[AceChilla]

stapel, what the heck are you talking about? Do you know what pizza is?

A frozen thing covered in plastic you put in the microwave innit?

 

[G-Man]

Now, I was wondering if anyone knew of any more-or-less objective studies as to where food actually is the healthiest?

Healthiest is quite a general statement. It depends on the person eating (what his body needs and what it doesn't) just as it is on the food. As to the kebab, nothing can beat a middle eastern sheep meat with the right spices.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Now, I was wondering if anyone knew of any more-or-less objective studies as to where food actually is the healthiest?

Surely average life expectancy would be a good indicator? I'd say Japan, but that's a guess.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Hindu veggie is the healthiest. In terms of cancer rates and heart disease at least.

 

[G-Man]

Surely average life expectancy would be a good indicator? I'd say Japan, but that's a guess.

Food quality is just one of the many things which affect life expectancy, and a nation with a high life expectancy might just as well be such because of its citizens' healthy life style or its good healthcare system.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Surely average life expectancy would be a good indicator? I'd say Japan, but that's a guess.

That's probably due to the high amounts of soy they eat, not anything having to do with meat.

 

[Cheetah]

I think TLC was refering to the quality of the food. I.e., what diseases, extra antibiotica, extra vax, injected vitamines and so, can be found in the meat, apples and flour from different countries. And wether there are some real studies of what food is good from which countries.

Personaly I think Norway has the best products.

Oh, and Italians never seemed to get how to make the pizza real good: minced beef!

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

That's what one of the signs on a kebab place down in the city centre, run by a bunch of Turks, whose chief claim to fame is finishing last in a survey of restaurant hygiene.

The ad works because Swedes tend to believe Swedish food, and meat in particular, is the best in the world. This isn't any particularly nationalistic attitude - the peoples of pretty much all industrialized countries think that their country makes the safest food in the world. Needless to say, the various food industries do their best to keep perceptions that way.

Now, I was wondering if anyone knew of any more-or-less objective studies as to where food actually is the healthiest?

I don't know about healthiest, but least healthiest has to be Mexico.

 

[Fifty]

japanese people are clean and efficient, their meat probably is too.

 

[Stapel]

stapel, what the heck are you talking about? Do you know what pizza is?

Apparently not!

However, these pizze can be ordered at any Italian run pizzeria (overhere).