Bonjour tout le monde!
Well, I just wished a good day to everybody in French. And why bring in French? 'Cause they are considered probably the slowest eaters on the planet, spending 2 hours and another quarter in front of their plates everyday!
While the Fastest Eaters may be classified as Americans, clocking just above an hour in front of the plate, there might be caution exercised over this fact with respect to the condition that Americans are fastest eaters only among the few countries perhaps studied and taken into account.
Sources in Wikipedia, and the Web at large do make a mention of Trobrianders, belonging to the islands near Papua New Guinea, being the fastest eaters, more specifically, gobbling food and the main reason for that is it is considered ill in their society for others to see a person eating. It is a unique world all together for the people out there, and I guess it's quite impossible to study them and their food habits better.
And talking about India, the people are indeed not as slow eaters as the French and not as fast as the Americans. They have own speed to relish and enjoy the aroma and the spices of food. After all, eat to live or, live to eat. That's your take!
