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Show SEVENTY YEARS OF EATING In That Length of Time a Man Consumes Con-sumes 95 Tons of Food and Drink. If a man of 70 years was starving, it would probably be little comfort to him to think that he had consumed in the course of his life fifty-three and three-quarter tons of solid food and forty-two and three-quarter tons of liquor, or about 1,280 times his own weight in both solids and liquids, but it would be true. Being a man of average appetite and purse he would have eaten 15 tons of bread, which would have made a single loaf containing 1,200 cubic feet and appearing about as large as the average aver-age suburban home; and on this bread he would have spread one ton of butter. but-ter. If his bacon had been cut in a single slice, says Harper's Weekly, the strip would have been four miles long and his chops placed end to end would have extended two miles. Twenty ordinary sized bullocks have supplied him with beef, 18 tons of which he has eaten, along with five tons of fish and 10,000 eggs and 350 pounds of cheese. If he had elected to have all his vegetables served at once they would have come to him in a train of cars, the pod containing all his peas being over three miles long. He has had 9,000 pounds of sugar, 1.500 pounds of salt, eight pounds of pepper and 100 cans of mustard. Three pints of liquid a day would have amounted to 76.600 pints, or forty-two iMid three-quarter tons. If he had been a smoker, he would have burned about half a ton of tobacco in a pipe, or, if he preferred cigarettes, would have j smoked about a quarter of a million. |