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.

A young woman, who was at her father's funeral, asked her mother, "Mom, how did Dad die?" Her mom replied, "Heart attack." "What was he doing?" the daughter asked. Her mother said, "Well, we were having sex." This enfuriated the daughter, because they were both 80 years old. The daughter said, "You guys are 80 years old! You should have expected something like this! You're way too old to be engaging in this sort of activity!" The mom replied, "Well, you see, years ago, we realized that at noon every day, the church bells rang. So, we decided to work along to that nice, slow rhythm so that your father wouldn't have a heart attack. It worked for years too. That poor guy... he'd still be alive today if that darned Ice Cream truck hadn't come along..."