Food Stuff

Honey is made from nectar and bee vomit.

Starbucks donates 100% of its leftover food in partnership with the nonprofit Feeding America.

The twists in pretzels are meant to look like arms crossed in prayer.

Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren't really potato chips.

Rice can be used in beer, dog food, baby food, breakfast cereals, snacks, frozen foods and sauces!

McDonald's sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day.

Pescetarians are vegetarians who eat fish.

16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter. stacked end to end, the jelly beans would circle the globe nearly 3 times!

An American will typically eat the equivalent of 28 pigs in his or her lifetime.

Frank Mars invented the Snickers chocolate bar. He named it Snickers after his favourite horse.

California is the world's 5th largest supplier of food.

In the U.S., Childhood Food Allergies Cost Nearly US$25 Billion Every Year.

Humans are born craving sugar.

To add nutrition, a lot of milk, juice, and yogurts enrich the food with EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids. In other words, your OJ contains fish oil.

Peaches are the third most popular fruit grown in America.

The fear of cooking is known as Mageirocophobia and is a recognised phobia.

If improperly prepared, fugu, or puffer fish, can kill you since it contains a toxin 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.

The Arabs invented caramel.

Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.

Chicken McNuggets contain beef additives.

Bottle feeding: An opportunity for Dad to get up at 2 am also. Defense: What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let the children play outside. Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. Family planning: The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster. Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots. Full name: What you call your child when you're mad at him. Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right. Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word. Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid. Independent: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say. Look out: What it's too late for your child to do by the time you scream it. Prenatal: When your life was still somewhat your own. Preprared childbirth: A contradiction in terms. Puddle: A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it. Show off: A child who is more talented than yours. Sterilize: What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it. Storeroom: The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything. Temper tantrums: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children. Top bunk: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies. Two-minute warning: When the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises. Verbal: Able to whine in words Whoops: An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge."