Get most common value for each value of another column in SQL

Question

I have a table like this:

 Column  | Type | Modifiers 
---------+------+-----------
 country | text | 
 food_id | int  | 
 eaten   | date | 

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Answer 1

Try something like this

select country, food_id, count(*) cnt 
into #tempTbl 
from mytable 
group by country, food_id

select country, food_id
from  #tempTbl as x
where cnt = 
  (select max(cnt) 
  from mytable 
  where country=x.country 
  and food_id=x.food_id)

This could be put all into a single select, but I don't have time to muck around with it right now.

Good luck.