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We test the hypothesis that geographical distant regions reveal more distinct online food preferences than geographic close regions by measuring Spearman rank correlation between the geographical distance of region pairs and their recipe similarity and ingredient similarity.
Ingredient preferences are very similar for both geographic close and distant regions (cf. Figure 6).
When looking at all three countries, we can still see the tendency of geographic close regions to be more similar than geographic distant ones.
Figures 5 and 6 show that at least in Austria and in Germany the recipe preferences of geographic close regions tend to be more similar than those of geographic distant ones.
One can see that in Austria and Germany geographic close regions tend to reveal more similar recipe and ingredient preferences than distant regions; however, in Switzerland we do not observe this tendency.
Therefore, it seems to be a plausible assumption, that geographic close regions have more similar food preferences than distant ones since they are more likely to be subjects of the same cultural forces.
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