Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
Chocolate was once used as currency.
We eat 300 million portions of fish and chips in Britain each year.
The ’57’ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
Turnips are high in fibre, Vitamin C, Calcium and Potassium.
The warriors of Attila, king of the Huns, (A.D. 450) preserved their meat by placing fresh meat under their saddles. All the bouncing squeezed fluids from the meat, and the horse's sweat salted the meat and removed more moisture. When the warrior stopped to eat, they had a dried and salted meal.
Domino's Pizza co-founder traded his shares for a Volkswagen.
There are more than 600 pasta shapes produced worldwide.
In the U.S., an average family of four emits more greenhouse gases because of the meat they eat than from driving two cars.
Dynamite is made with peanuts.
Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
Gorgonzola cheese dates back to the year 879!
The banana tree is not a true fruit at all but a giant herb and the banana is actually its berry. A banana plant produces only one bunch or hand in its life, but that bunch may have between 100 to 400 bananas. Despite its phallic shape, the banana is sterile and no fertilization takes place in the banana flowers. A banana plant grows when one of its shoots is planted.
Victorians believed tomatos would cause illness unless boiled to the point of collapse.
One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber, which is 96% water.
Humans are killing 1,776 animals for food every second.
Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield, while operating on epilepsy patients, discovered the ‘Toast Centre’ of the human brain, which is wholly dedicated to detecting when toast is burning!
Eating bananas can help fight depression.
Food Trivia

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An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest`s breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?" "Just water," says the priest, fingers crossed. The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?" The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He`s done it again!"

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