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- The cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called 'a cashew apple'. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
- The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.
- A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
- An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
- John Kellogg invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth. Charles Post invented Grape Nuts. Dr. Kellogg was the manager of a Michigan health spa and Post was a patient. The spa was founded by Sylvester Graham...inventor of the Graham cracker and pioneer of the early 1800s movement to eat more bran.
- The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
- Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan is the "SpaghettiOs Capital of the World" because per-capita consumption is highest in that city, per the Franco-American Company. Reportedly, there are more than 1,750 "O's" in a 15-ounce can of SpaghettiOs.
- Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.
- According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans eat more than 22 pounds of tomatoes every year. More than half this amount is eaten in the form of ketchup and tomato sauce.
- Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
- Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
- The estimated number of M & M’s sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- Only food that does not spoil: honey.
- The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it.
- The famous baby appearing on jars of Gerber baby food is actually a girl named Ann Turner. The picture was drawn by artist Dorothy Hope Smith in 1928.
- There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.
- As much as 50 gallons of Maple Sap are used to make a single gallon of Maple Sugar.
- Dairy products account for about 29% of all food consumed in the U.S.
- Turkey contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which can cause sleepiness (warm milk also contains tryptophan).
- Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world.
- Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
- Ovaltine, the drink was from milk, malt, egg and cocoa, was developed in 1904 in Berne, Switzerland. It was originally named Ovomaltine. A clerical error changed it when the manufacturer registered the name.
- The five favorite U.S. school lunches nationwide, according to the American School Food Service Association, are, in order, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos, and hamburgers.
- The flesh of the puffer fish (fugu) is considered a delicacy in Japan. It is prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government to prepare the flesh free of the toxic liver, gonads, and skin. Despite these precautions, many cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning are reported each year in patients ingesting fugu. Poisonings usually occur after eating fish caught and prepared by uncertified handlers. The end result, in most cases, is death.
- The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
- Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
- "0 & Wine" magazine reported that in Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza.
- Well, before WWII, Twinkies used to have bananna cream in them; but because of the battle at Pearl Harbor, we had a shortage of bananas and had to switch to plain vanilla. It's been that way ever since then. (Update- Recently Hostess re-introduced the Bananna Twinkie)
- Ancient Greeks and Romans believed asparagus had medicinal qualities for helping prevent bee stings and relieve toothaches.
- 86 is one of many codes once used by soda fountain employees to communicate quickly among themselves. Code 33 meant a cherry-flavored Coke, Code 19 meant a banana split, and Code 86 meant they were out of a particular item. As a result, if a cook "86'd" an order, it meant he was canceling it.
- Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.
- Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
- For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
- When tea was first introduced in the American colonies, many housewives, in their ignorance, served the tea leaves with sugar or syrup after throwing away the water in which they had been boiled.
- From 1941 until 1950, violet was part of the color mixture for "M&M's" Plain Chocolate Candies. Violet was replaced by tan.
- Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
- You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
- A turkey should never be carved until it has been out of the oven at least 30 minutes. This permits the inner cooking to subside and the internal meat juices to stop running. Once the meat sets, it's easier to carve clean, neat slices.
- During the Middle Ages, almost all beef, pork, mutton, and chicken were chopped fine. Forks were unknown at the time and the knife was a kitchen utensil rather that a piece of tableware.
- The Chuck E. Cheese franchise was created by Atari, a restaurant combining robotic animals and arcade games with family meals. They name the franchise a Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese was first opened in 1977.
- There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.
- Lithiated Lemon was the creation of Charles Griggs from Missouri, who introduced the lemon-lime drink in 1929. Four years later he renamed it 7-Up. Sales increased significantly.
- Only men were allowed to eat at the first self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet in New York, opened in 1885. Customers ate standing up.
- Milk delivered to the store today was in the cow two days ago.
- The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires 2 tons of water to grow.
- Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
- According to Hershey's Chocolate Company, Valentine's Day ranks fourth in candy sales, behind Halloween, Christmas and Easter.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height.
- Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day.
- The "last meal" for Death Row inmates has became embedded in the American death-penalty ritual. Reporters have dutifully recorded the last meal menus: John Wayne Gacy had fried chicken and strawberries; Ted Bundy passed on steak and eggs; James Smith, executed in Texas in 1990, requested a "lump of dirt" (request was denied); Missouri inmate Lloyd Schlup asked for venison and hare (request was granted).
- Soy milk, the liquid left after beans have been crushed in hot water and strained, is a favorite beverage in the East. In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as Coca-Cola is in the U.S.
- There are two types of asparagus: green and white. One of the most popular varieties of green asparagus is named after Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.
- Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
- Though most people think of salt as a seasoning, only 5 out of every 100 pounds produced each year go to the dinner table.
- Goat milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.
- Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food. The Ancient Greeks called carrots "Karoto".
- It takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
- In Australia, the Number 1 topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it's pepperoni.
- Over 15 billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes.
- The color of a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
- The Southern dish "Chitlins" is made up of pigs' small intestines.
- The dark meat on a roast turkey has more calories than the white meat.
- The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana.
- Ice Cream Sundaes were created when it became illegal to sell ice cream with flavored soda on a Sunday in the Evanston, Illinois during the late 19th century. Some traders got round it by serving it with syrup instead, calling it an 'Ice Cream Sunday' and eventually replacing the final 'y' with an 'e' to avoid upsetting religious leaders.
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