Food for Seventy-Five Years.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 25, Issue 39, 22 May 1914, Page 2

Food for Seventy-Five Years.

If you should live to be seventyfive have you any idea how much food you would have consumed in tiie course of the years, taking it for granted that you are a person of average height, weight, and appetite ?

I In both solids and liquids you will have consumed something like 1,900 1 times your own weight in both ! solids and liquids, or 54 tons of

j solid food and 53 tons of liquid. I Probably if your desires were nor--1 inal you would have eaten some 1 seventy-six tons of bread, which, if I they were all piled together, would ' equal in size a small family hotel. 1 On that bread you would have spread ■ about a ton and a quarter of ; butter. If you had been fond of j bacon and were to stretch it out in a long single slice it would stretch about four miles. You would have managed to eat about five tons of fish and some 12,000 eggs, while if you were at all a lover of cheese ■ you co uld easily get outside 400 lb of it.

I It is interesting to imagine how,

if you were 'to see all the vegetables you had, consumed pass before you in review, they would make a train at least three and a half miles long. Also on that train you could add 10,000 lb of sugar and 1,500 lb of salt. If you were a smoker you would have used half a ton of tobacco in pipes, a quarter million cigarettes, or about 60,000 cigars.