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Show FOOD TASTES OF AMERICAN WOMEN . RUN TO DISPLAY America's food tastes are the most expensive f any nation of the world. The luxuries of the European worker's work-er's table are bare necessities here, it is indicated in a food survey just made public by the Institute of Margarine Mar-garine Manufacturers. "Pie, butter, ice cream and confectionery confec-tionery cost the average American more annually than the entire food bill of the European," the survey states. "That which stands for affluence afflu-ence on the continent is swallowed by the American as a matter of course. "Thrifty' Denmark, one of the world's leading butter producing countries, spreads its own bread with margarine, mlttde from wholesome ; beef fat, vegetable oils and milk, and likes it. The product of its butter churns goes to other markets. , "The average Dane eats 45 1-2 lbs. of margarine annually; the Norwegians, Norweg-ians, 35 1-4 pounds; the Hollander, 15 2-3 pounds; the German, 12 1-3 pounds; and the Englishman, 11 1-4 pounds. In the United States, the per capita consumption of this low-priced low-priced but wholesome food is only. 2 1-2 pounds. "Americans do not insist on the best so much as they insist on the most expensive foods. They want the prime cuts of meat, the finest ground flour, the fruits that are out of season. sea-son. With the average worker it isn't a question of serving a 'square meal,' with passing attention given to nutritive worth, so much as a question ques-tion of epicurean display." cate that Hop Flavored Barley-Malt Syrup has met with great favor where palatability and wholesome foods are 'desired. |