Interesting Food Facts

[JTSimon]

If you would like to make a Siberian happy, give him a horse-meat steak.

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.

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. [Cereal Dynasty right there]

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.

In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.

Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.

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.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/

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1. Corn on the cob: Did you know that corn is the largest crop in the United States? The origin of cultivated corn is unknown, however.

2. Watermelons: Watermelons originally came from the Kalahari Desert region in Africa, which is interesting because the average watermelon is 92 percent water.

3. Peaches: During the mid-1980s, world peach production totaled about 5.5 million metric tons per year. The highest peach-producing countries were the United States and Italy.

4. Strawberries: The strawberry is actually a member of the rose family. Each strawberry contains approximately 200 seeds.

5. Fresh fish: The first person to write in English about using a fishing rod was Dame Juliana Berners, whose Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496) remained the basis of fishing knowledge in England for 150 years.

6. Lemonade: President Rutherford B. Hayes's wife Lucy was called Lemonade Lucy because she was a staunch advocate of the temperance movement and would not serve strong drinks at the White House.

7. Barbecue: The word barbecue comes from the Arawak word barbakoa, meaning "frame of sticks."

8. Ice cream: One of the world's most popular desserts, ice cream was most likely first created in China, around 2000 BC.

9. Tomatoes: Up until the mid-19th century, many cultures thought the tomato was poisonous. Today tomatoes are one of the most widely cultivated crops.

10. Potato salad: What's a cookout without potato salad? Americans sure must eat a lot of it: The U.S. potato harvest in 1999 yielded 21.7 million metric tons of potatoes!

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Lists/?Article=tasteofsummer

[YoungGotti42k]

this is tooo cool

[Black_Smoke]

intresting

[mrtonguetwista]

Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.

and approx. 2lbs of beef per month.

[pantherpower]

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