Monthly ration in Poland, early 1980s - eviltoast
  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Can someone calculate the calories in that? I’m too lazy.

    Maybe don’t include the sugar. That’s a shit ton of sugar to go through in month.

    • asqapro@reddthat.com
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      19 hours ago

      Ballpark estimate, excluding the sugar:

      2.5kg beef: ~6265 Calories

      0.5l vodka: ~1082 Calories

      1.3kg white rice: ~4743 Calories

      1.3kg flour: ~4732 Calories

      500g butter: ~3585 Calories

      300g cooking oil (Google says rapeseed oil is popular in Poland so I used that): ~2652 Calories

      250g chocolate: ~1338 Calories

      Total: 24,397 Calories or ~813 Calories per day

      Some other people online also did the math and came up with similar numbers. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37027027 came up with 33,063 Calories (including the sugar)

      • kralk@lemm.ee
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        13 hours ago

        You get another 333 calories from the sugar, add it to the vodka!

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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        19 hours ago

        Nice, that was super fast. I guess it’s probably enough for one person to survive if they practically don’t move at all the entire month, for a little while at least.

        Still not pleasant I imagine.

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          9 hours ago

          What would you be willing to do to ensure that your fellow citizens aren’t dying of literal hunger on the streets?

          (Clearly to most Americans, that answer is “absolutely nothing”)