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According to Ikea, People Are Pretty Stressed About Kitchens

IKEA's second global Life at Home Report came out yesterday. It's not as salacious as the first one, which revealed that people in Mumbai have the most morning sex and people in New York do the most work while sitting on the toilet, instead focusing on the kitchen. Specifically, the fact that everyone is very anxious about their kitchens, apparently. For instance, 19 percent of Parisians chose the answer "I would feel uncomfortable or ashamed" when presented with the question, "How would you feel if a friend looked in your kitchen?" (A friend!) And while 38 percent of Berliners residents cook at home during the week, 54 percent never eat in the kitchen or dining room. On the bright side, only 18 percent of them feel bad about the amount of food they throw away each week, the lowest of any of the eight cities surveyed.

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