Gunnison Valley News | 1919-07-18 | Page 2 | Hearty Eaters in Australia

HEARTY EATERS IN AUSTRALIA Citizens of That Country May Claim' to Have the Best Appetites on the Planet. Some surprising statistics were published pub-lished recently of what the average-Australian average-Australian eats. To judge from these figures, he has. the best appetite, if not the best digestion, di-gestion, of any human being on the planet. He eats every year 2(54 pounds of meat, which works out at nn average of two sheep and one-fifth of a bullock for every man, woman and baby In' Australasia! lie eats more than twice as much meat as the average Englishman, English-man, and three times as much'ns the-average the-average Frenchman, and four times as-much as-much as the average German or Swiss.. In addition, he consumes about three and three-quarter hundredweight hundred-weight of wheat, two and a half hundredweights hun-dredweights of potatoes, and almost-one almost-one hundredweight of sugar. If he Is a Tasmanlan he eats a quarter quar-ter of a ton of potatoes in a 'year I