What a Year of Groceries Looks Like in France (1952,1999,2019)

What a Year of Groceries Looks Like in France (1952,1999,2019)(parismatch.com)

7 points by gregcrv 7 years ago | 3 comments

Thats a lot of milk. And wine comsumption appears to have taken quite the hit.

I wonder if Millimials or Z’s will ever pick up wine.

Like in many countries, the French have succumbed to having cereals and milk for breakfast.

But in my view nothing beats butter tartines or croissants dunked in coffee.

It has also become uncommon to drink wine at every meal, and people also drink less when they do have wine. It used to be that the consumption was close to one bottle per day...

But it should also be noted that the amount of alcohol in wine has increased during the period. It's 12+% now while it was about 10% in 1950 (not sure how much difference that makes, but still).

hindsightbias 7 years ago | | |

I cant even find coffee in the 2019 pic... I’d almost imagine every French home had an espresso machine.