#foodporn

around the world

#foodporn captures our love story with food. What is your country's top favorite foods?

We analyzed 675 thousand posts from 322 thousand users on Instagram who have used #foodporn hashtag in the span of 6 Nov 2014 - 6 Apr 2015. Correcting for power-users (who post thousands of images), we found the foods most associated with #foodporn in 73 countries. In particular, for each country we subtract the probability a food is mentioned anywhere in the world from the probability it is mentioned in the country, resulting in most peculiar foods to be favored.

Read this paper for more. Contact yelena.mejova@gmail.com for anonymized data or code.


Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Lebanon
Lithuania
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Viet Nam


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Yelena Mejova · Sofiane Abbar · Hamed Haddadi
Social Computing Group QCRI