Only one ‘healthy’ item made the list.
Once upon a time, we made food for the sole purpose of eating it. They were less complicated times, before Instagram filters were there to tart up your stir fry and make it look like an art installation.
Since the invention of social media, certain people (you know who you are) will spend hours making food look good, and spend almost as long getting the perfect image of it.
While some of us might not understand this obsession, there is no denying it.
Anyway, with all of this in mind, researchers from the University of Utah have conducted a massive study.
They assessed around 80 million geotagged tweets sent between mid-2014 and mid-2015. They then sorted through them to find the 4 million which had mentioned food or drink.
Lead researcher Quynh Nguyen said: ‘Our data could be telling us that certain neighborhoods have fewer resources to support healthy diets.’
Only one healthy food option emerged in the 10 most popular talked about food and drinks.
Unsurprisingly coffee came out on top (we blame Starbucks for spelling everyone’s name wrong) closely followed by beer.
Pizza was the most popular food on the list coming in at number 3. Of all 10 items, chicken is the only one on the list that could really be considered healthy and even that depends on how it’s prepared and cooked.
The full list is below.
1) Coffee
2) Beer
3) Pizza
4) Starbucks
5) IPA (beer)
6) Wine
7) Chicken
8) Bbq
9) Ice cream
10) Tacos
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