In Pakistan, by contrast, the average person spends 47.7 percent of his or her household budget on food consumed at home. In that situation, those price spikes become a lot more noticeable.
The US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service keeps tabs on household expenditures for food, alcohol, and tobacco around the world.
Americans, it turns out, spend a smaller share of their income on food than anyone else — less even than Canadians or Europeans or Australians: