Food Stuff

People were using garlic to repel long before Bram Stoker's was published. Folklorists suggest it is because vampires have a heightened sense of smell and the garlic's strong smell was overpowering. Garlic is proven to be effective against two other bloodsuckers: mosquitoes and ticks.

Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.

Gummy Bears are only 79 millimetres long in length.

Baked beans are low in fat and have a lot of fibre and protein.

The earliest form of eating processed food occurred in early hunting cultures when the men who made a kill would be rewarded with a meal of the partially digested contents of the stomach of their prey.

In America, anchovies always rank last on the list of favourite toppings.

Chili peppers are hot because they contain a substance called alkaloid capsaicin and four other related chemicals. It is also the primary ingredient in pepper spray.

Bread has become the prime symbol of nourishment and sharing bread is often a symbolic gesture. The word 'companion' is derived from Latin, 'together,' and, 'bread.'

An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.

A row of corn always has an even number.

During the average meal, you eat over 90,000 miles of DNA.

Ancient Egyptian priests would eat figs at the moment of their consecration ceremonies. The Indians consecrated the fig tree to Vishnu, and the fig free sheltered Romulus and Remus (the traditional founders of Rome) at their birth.

Cadbury’s Cream Eggs first went on sale in 1971.

Honey is the only food that will never rot, it can last 3000 years.

The spiciness of a chili pepper is not in its seeds but in the white pith inside the pepper.

Australians are the world's biggest meat eaters, consuming almost 200lbs each every year, closely followed by Americans.

Eating pasta that has been cooked, cooled, and then reheated is significantly healthier than eating it freshly cooked because it turns into “resistant starch,” reducing blood glucose levels by half.

There is no single food that provides all the nutrients that humans need, except for breast milk.

There is an amusement park in Tokyo that offers Raw Horse Flesh-flavored ice cream.

Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food . He is said to have saved the lives of over a billion people, making him one of the most influential men in human history.

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."