42 BULLETIN 1443, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 6. — Replies to the quesiton: What kind of meat is preferred in your 
household? l . 
Group 
Total 
number 
of re- 
plies 
Percentage replying— 
Beef 
Pork 
Lamb 
Veal 
American white: » 
561 
584 
571 
554 
55.3 
65.4 
73.5 
71.3 
35.2 
18.7 
7.9 
5.2 
2.5 
7.7 
12.0 
17.5 
7 
8.2 
6 6 
6 
Total American white- 
2,270 
66.4 
16.8 
9.9 
6.9 
Colored: 8 
Poor class 
150 
147 
86 
45 
50 
164 
161 
95 
94 
50 
143 
23.3 
49.6 
79.1 
51.1 
52.0 
65.2 
43.5 
67.4 
80.9 
52.0 
53.8 
61.4 
26.6 
8.1 
24.4 
6.0 
18.3 
5.6 
4.6 
6.8 
11.6 
10.7 
Middle class 
17.0 
Foreign: 
English 
1.2 
Finnish _ ___ ._ 
24.5 
French 
42.0 
12.8 
7.4 
15.8 
3.7 
43.5 
16 8 
Polish. _ 
8.5 
28.0 
37.8 
10 6 
Russian 
20.0 
Scandinavian 
1.4 
7.0 
i Replies from Baltimore, Binghamton, Jacksonville, and New Haven are s ho wn in Table 8, where 
replies indicating the preferences of individual members of the family are tabulated. 
8 Replies from 12 cities, Birmingham, Denver, Fargo, Grand Forks, Lincoln, Minneapolis, New Orleans, 
Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Washington. 
3 Replies from Birmingham, New Orleans, and Washington. 
by cities to the question: What kind of meat is preferred in your 
household? 
Table 7. — Repl 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
City 
Total 
number 
of re- 
plies 
Percentage replying— 
Beef 
Pork 
Lamb 
Veal 
Birmingham . 
Denver 
Fargo . - .. 
100 
95 
94 
99 
100 
100 
100 
94 
92 
90 
97 
94 
72.0 
84.2 
71.3 
66.7 
78.0 
82.0 
45.0 
73.4 
64.1 
66.7 
57.7 
72.3 
16.0 
4.2 
20.2 
28.3 
15.0 
12.0 
6.0 
21.3 
8.7 
13.3 
4.1 
10.6 
11.0 
5.3 
1.0 
6.3 
8.5 
6.0 
3.0 
6.0 
4.0 
4.2 
25.0 
14.4 
33.0 
12.8 
4.0 
45.0 
1.1 
2.2 
5.6 
5.2 
4.3 
All cities... — 
1155 
69.5 
13.2 
9.8 
7.5 
