What Americans Like

The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. The segment was originally broadcast on Nov. 19, 2006. It was updated on Sep. 4, 2007.

For example, Time says Americans buy 35 million cans of Bud Light every day. I'm not one of those millions because I drink an average of two beers a year and neither of them is Bud Light. I don't like anything called light and Anheuser Busch doesn't make a Bud Heavy.

Time says Americans buy 150,000 toy cars every day. I'm not in on that either. I have my toy car, a Sunbeam Tiger with a Ford V8 engine in it. I bought my toy in 1967.

Time says Americans drink 50 million cans of Pepsi every day. Pepsi's okay but I drink Coke out of habit. I used to think of Pepsi as imitation Coke. Then I was surprised to find out that both Coke and Pepsi were first made before 1900. I think Coke's success had something to do with that great little bottle it came in.

Time says we eat 2.4 million Burger King hamburgers a day. I've never understood how you're supposed to get you're mouth around one of these so you can take a bite.

They sell almost 25,000 bags of Whiskas cat food a day. They don't sell any of that to me either because I don't have a cat. If I had time to take care of a cat I wouldn't get a cat. I'd get a dog.

Hostess Twinkies are big sellers, half a million a day. Would a real man get caught eating a Twinkie?

Starbucks sells more than 150,000 pounds of coffee every day. I drink Starbucks. It's good coffee but the beans are over-roasted for me. The coffee has a burned taste.

Toyota Camry. They sell 628 of these cars a day. Whatever a Camry is. I can't figure out how Ford Motors dropped the ball. For about 50 years Ford was the all-American car. Almost everyone bought one at some time or other. Toyota isn't all-American, it's part-Japanese but Americans buy a lot of them now.

One last statistic. More Americans read Time than Newsweek.
By Andy Rooney