# German/French food question

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [November 21, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-french-food-question/954699 "2021-11-21T02:43:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-french-food-question/954699/1 "2021-11-21T02:43:05Z")

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SD is the place I would find this answer:  
What is the most common protein in the Rhein region? chicken? veal? venison? something else?

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-french-food-question/954699/2 "2021-11-21T03:24:49Z")

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I have no answer for the Rhine region in particular, but according to this statistic, pork is by far the most popular meat in Germany, and I have no doubt that this applies as well to the German Rhineland, because I don’t know of any other special meat preferences in that region.

This is the annual meat consumption per person in Germany in kilograms in 2020: 32.8 kg pork, 13.3 kg poultry, 9.8 kg beef or veal, 0.7 kg mutton or goat, 0.1 kg offal and 0.6 kg other.

Source:

> **[Pro-Kopf-Konsum von Fleisch nach Art bis 2021 | Statista](https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/311479/umfrage/pro-kopf-konsum-von-fleisch-in-deutschland-nach-arten/)**
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> Diese Statistik zeigt den Pro-Kopf-Konsum von Fleisch in Deutschland aufgeschlüsselt nach Art in den Jahren 2019 bis 2021.

ETA: of course this doesn’t take other protein sources into account, like dairy, eggs, fish, soy, lentils and so on, but I guess that meat still is the predominant source of protein here.