Australians drink less beer
NZPA-AAP Canberra Australians are eating less ice-cream and drinking less beer, but eating more biscuits, chocolate, frozen vegetables, and tomato sauce, according to the latest Bureau of Statistics figures. The figures show Australians munched through 84,113 tonnes of biscuits and 41,058 tonnes of chocolate from July, 1983, to February, 1984, compared with 82,474 and 39,088 in the same period the year before.
Consumption of malt, ale, beer, and stout fell from 1345 billion litres from July, 1983, to February, 1984, compared with 1279 billion litres in the previous year. The figures suggest Australians are drowning their food in tomato sauce. Consumption of it increased from 13,931,000 litres to 19,645,000 litres.
Ice-cream seemingly fell out of favour during the same period. Consumption fell by more than five million litres from 147,707,000 litres to 142,653,000 litres.
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Press, 17 May 1984, Page 17
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