Fun Facts

Fun Food Facts

Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do!
Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum!
Rice is the chief food for half of the people in the world!
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk!
Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent!
The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time he/she graduates from high school!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach!
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges!
Spinach consumption in the US raised 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931!
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma!
The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients!
The estimated number of M&Ms sold each day in America is 200,000,000!
The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year!
The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal is $50.00!
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes!
The "Big Dipper" is known as "The Casserole" in France!
The United Kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined!
The powder of chewing gum is finely-ground marble!
The most popular Campbell's Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard!
Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous!
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field!
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time lemonade!
There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM!
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee!
Coca-Cola was originally green!
The number one selling snack in the US is potato chips!
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an anchovy Ketchup!
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light!
Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts!
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it!
Absinthe is a high volume alcoholic drink (up to 89.9% in UK) which contains a hallucinogenic ingredient called Wormwood and is banned in the US!
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name!
Coca-Cola contained Coca (active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903!
There are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in America!
The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia!
President Nixon's favorite breakfast was cottage cheese, fresh fruit, wheat germ, and coffee!
In 2001, total meat consumption amounted to 194 pounds per American!
The collecting of beer mats is called tegestology!
Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers!
Reno, Nevada, has the highest rate of alcoholism!
Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza per day!
Buttermilk doesn't contain any butter!
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on the right side of your mouth. Left handed people usually chew on the left side!
Red wine will spoil if exposed to light!
The largest hummus dish, prepared in Lebanon, weighed over 23,000 pounds!
Coffee beans aren't actually beans. They're fruit pits!
Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell!
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes!
Lima beans contain cyanide!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America in 1918 by Charles Jung!
If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously!
Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives!
Hershey's Kisses are named that because the machine that makes them looks as though it's kissing the conveyor belt!
The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum!
Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you good skin care results!
The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink, Fanta!
The largest potato was grown in Lebanon and weighed 24.9 pounds!