Indexing Tastes

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is used to measure inflation. It includes the prices of various common goods and services and looks at the way this fluctuates in relation to the cost of living, according to Investopedia.

The index will include things that most people buy like clothes, gas, insurance, postage stamps and haircuts.

Business Insider took a look at whether other countries have less boring tastes than we do stateside and they were looking in the right place when they investigated China’s CPI — and uncovered an index full of wacky foods.

Not surprisingly, people in China have different goods that are common to them. Among them, there are staples like pork belly meat, fresh frozen duck, bean curd and mutton leg. There’s also two kinds of carp.

All we have is breakfast cereal, milk, coffee and chicken.

It may highlight the differences in our diets, but there is one true, mutual and abiding love that we both share: our devotion to the Colonel.

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