For the past 14 years, Google has carefully kept
track of what its
users have searched for and, at the end of the year, released a wide
ranging report on queries about everything from health to pop culture
to entertainment — and especially food. There are more than 1 trillion
Google queries in nearly 150 languages every year. No, I don't have the
results of them all.
But there were a few curious ones this year. Searches for
“strawberries and cream” most often happened as expected everywhere in
the world during the Wimbledon tennis tournament that made that dish a
hit. Among oddities, the Japanese searched for French food more than
the French, Australians searched for Argentinean food more than
Argentines, and Brits searched for Indian food more than Indians. And
guess what the Jewish population most searched for on Christmas Day.
It was Chinese food! Tradition has it that many Jews eat Chinese and go
to the movies on Christmas Day, since their religion has nothing to do
with the holiday itself.
Evidently, the food police and food nuts were still eating the trendy
and allegedly healthier foods. According to the latest Google search
data, people searched for a lot of health foods. They were clustered
near the top of the Google search list. This year, it was all about
goji berries and chia seeds, which replaced last year's trendy health
food kale and quinoa. Those two didn't even make the top ten
this year, proving that real food like donuts, which every year are in
the hearts of eaters as well as on the list, trump health food every
year.
Before I spoil your appetite, here's a link to the Google slide show
highlighting some edible things we most searched for in 2014.
http://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/top-food-and-drink-searches-2014-according-google-slideshow
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