Watermelon production by country in 2024
China grew 63.5 million tonnes of watermelon in 2024, just over 60% of all the watermelon grown in the world. India came second with 3.7 million tonnes, about a seventeenth of China’s.
Food & drink
Terrible maps of food and drink: who eats what, who calls it what, and who taxes it.
US states where a hot dog is legally a sandwich
New York. For sales tax, a hot dog on a bun counts as a sandwich there, and the only other state I’ve seen reported is Colorado.
Each state’s official drink
Milk is the most popular official state drink in the US. Twenty states have picked it, and 14 of them did so in the 1980s. This map shows each state’s official drink, including the 17 states that don’t have one.
Halloween maps: candy, ghosts, monsters and pumpkins
Everything you need to know about Halloween, as long as what you need to know is which states love Hot Tamales, what Icelandic parents threaten their children with, and why the first jack-o’-lanterns were turnips.