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).

A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy three nickels to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up two of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help. A well dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant. Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's' testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?" "No," the woman replied. "I'm with the IRS."