Food Stuff

There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The Ancient Egyptians were the first to make a sweet treat from the marshmallow plant, when they combined its sap with nuts and honey.

Kissing may have originated when mothers orally passed chewed solid food to their infants during weaning.

The largest item on any menu in the world is the roast camel.

October is National Pasta Month.

The Kit Kat was originally made by Rowntree Limited, until 1988 when they were bought out by Nestle.

A survey showed 29% of adults say they have been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking biscuits.

Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.

When taken in large doses nutmeg works as a hallucinogen.

In the U.S., as much as 40% of produce grown is never sold or eaten because it is too ugly.

Apples, pears, cherries and strawberries are all members of the rose family.

Alliumphobia is the fear of garlic.

Perhaps as a relic of an ancient Roman custom of planting parsley on graves, a sprig of parsley was either associated with the devil or as an antidote for poison. Adding a sprig to a plate of food may have originated as a gesture of good faith and as way to safeguard the meal from evil.

London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi.

The jars of Nutella sold in a year could cover The Great Wall of China 8 times.

Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved anchovies (including the bones) that have been soaked in vinegar.

Eating too much meat can accelerate your body's biological age.

You can cook an egg on a sidewalk at 158°F (70°C).

In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.

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."