Food Stuff

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952.

The M’s in M & M’s stand for ‘Mars & Murrie’, the co-creators of the candy.

The average person eats eight pounds of grapes each year.

Hundreds and Thousands (Sprinkles, Nonpareils, Jimmies) are small round balls of brightly coloured sugar used as decorations on cakes, cookies, trifles and other desserts. Their use dates back at least to the early 19th century.

Fruit-flavored snacks are made with the same wax used on cars.

Until well into the sixteenth century, bacon was a Middle English term used to refer to all pork in general.

At Delphi, the spiritual center of Greece, many cooks were needed to organize and direct sacrifices to the gods.

India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Dry swallowing one teaspoon of sugar can commonly cure hic-ups.

A watermelon is over 92% water by weight.

Nearly 27 million Americans eat at McDonald's per day.

Juicy Fruit and Wrigley’s Spearmint gums are more than 100 years old!

Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.

There are 7,500 varieties of apples grown throughout the world, and if you tried a new variety each day, it would take you 20 years to try them all.

'SPAM' is short for spiced ham.

The ancient Greeks chewed a gum-like substance called mastic that came from the bark of a tree.

On August 10, 2015, NASA astronauts ate food that had been grown in space for the first time.

Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

If you want to speed up the ripening of a pineapple, so that you can eat it faster, then you can do it by standing it upside down (on the leafy end).

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