Monthly ration in Poland, early 1980s - eviltoast
  • 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.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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”)