What The Typical American Family Ate In 1978

FLASHBACK to January 1 1978:

This typical American family stands amid the food it eats in a year. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmer feed 220 million Americans on the same amount of land used in 1910 to feed some 80 million. Despite inflation, Americans spend only 18 percent of disposable income on food compared to almost 30 per cent in West Germany and 56 per cent in the Soviet Union.

 

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