I came across a really neat site that's just full of Food Trivia and Food Facts, http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/v-triv.html Really great site check it out when you get time. Below are a sample of some of the Food Facts.
* A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
* A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
* Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
* Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
* Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
* An etiquette writer of the 1840’s advised, “Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.”
* Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
* Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
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