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Show HEARTY EATERS IN AUSTRALIA Citizens of That Country May Claim to Have the Best Appetites on the Planet. Some surprising statistics were pub-lished pub-lished recently of what the average Australian eats. To judge from these figures, he has the best appetite, if not the best di-gestion, di-gestion, of any human being on the planet. He eats every year 264 pounds of meat, which works out at an average of two sheep and one-fifth of a bullock for every man, woman and baby in Australasia ! He eats more than twice as much meat as the average Englishman, English-man, and three times as much ns the average Frenchman, and four times 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 hundredweight of sugar. If he is a Tasmanian he eats a quarter quar-ter of a ton of potatoes in a year! |