Chocolate as Favorite Food
June 17, 2011
Is chocolate your favorite food? Recently a study was completed that asked an open-ended question of people from 17 different countries to name their favorite food. Chocolate made the published list of top 15 favorites in only 5 of those countries.
Today we can celebrate with the Australians. Australia was the only country on the list that named chocolate as its number 1 favorite food! A total of 8.9% of the surveyed population gave that answer. I'm going to have to visit Australia and hang out with the abundance of chocolate lovers.
In the U.K., where I've had a chance to try a variety of chocolates, they gave chocolate as their favorite food 4.2% of the time making it number 6 on their top food list.
Participants in the U.S. picked chocolate as the #10 most favorite. At least it made the top 10 list, but I'm a bit disappointed. Only 2.4% chose chocolate as their favorite. Even ice cream scored higher with 2.6% putting it one position ahead of chocolate. (In case you're curious, the top pick in the U.S. was pizza with a whopping 15.2% response.)
In South Africa they picked chocolate as their #11 most favorite with 2.2% chiming in. And in Germany 1.5% picked chocolate making it their 14th overall pick.
I think it's time for more people to join us over here at Chocolate University Online to learn more about chocolate. The guided tasting lessons will help anyone's appreciation of this marvelous food and start to sway those numbers.
The survey does not mention the movement of foods up or down from previous years so it leaves me curious as to whether chocolate has changed positions, becoming more or less popular. I guess I'll have to watch for the next survey.
In the meantime, I am going to enjoy some chocolate and assure it that it's still number one to me. 🙂
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