| 25% of all the retail establishments in the U.S. are for eating or drinking. |
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| 50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them. |
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| 68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air! |
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| A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year. |
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| A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! |
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| A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft boiled egg will not. |
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| A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume. |
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| A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes. |
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| According to the National Onion Association, onion consumption in the U.S. has increased approximately 50% over the past 20 years. |
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| Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War. |
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| Agaricus mushrooms are the most common variety prepackaged in supermarkets, available fresh, canned or frozen. |
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| Almonds are a member of the peach family. |
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| Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass. |
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| Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!. |
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| An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. |
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| An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added. |
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| Apple seeds are poisonous! |
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| Apples are 25% air. |
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| Apples are actually part of the rose family. |
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| Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. |
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| Avocados have more protein than any other fruit. |
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| Bananas are not fruit! They are a type of herb. |
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| Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac. |
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| Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. |
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| By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks. |
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| Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons! |
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| Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin. |
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| Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet! |
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| Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, London Broil is not a cut of beef but rather a method of cooking. |
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| Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. |
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| Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute. |
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| During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants! |
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| Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S. |
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| Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels. |
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| Eggs will age more in one day at room temperature than in one week in the refrigerator. |
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| Eggs will age more in one day at room temperature than in one week in the refrigerator. |
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| Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy! |
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| Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum! |
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| Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva. |
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| Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung! |
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| Honey is the only food that will not spoil. |
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| Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls. |
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| If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top. |
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| In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research! |
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| In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted ?raw horse flesh? ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream! |
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| In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange. |
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| It takes about a week to make a jelly bean. |
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| It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil. |
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| January 19 is National Popcorn Day. |
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| Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine. |
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| Lima beans contain cyanide! |
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| McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys! |
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| McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers! |
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| Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots! |
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| Milk is heavier than cream. |
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| More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976! |
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| Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women. |
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| Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration. |
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| No 2 cornflakes are identical! |
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| Non-dairy creamer is flammable. |
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| Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. |
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| On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime. |
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| Onions have no flavor, only a smell. |
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| Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day! |
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| Pancakes are commonly served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Australia. |
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| Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. |
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| Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers. |
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| Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars! |
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| Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent. |
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| Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts. |
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| Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world. |
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| Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! |
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| Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931. |
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| Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges. |
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| Sweet potatoes were grown in peru as early as 750 BC. |
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| The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling! |
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| The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year. |
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| The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life. |
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| The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year! |
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| The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school. |
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| The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50. |
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| The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles. |
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| The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice. |
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| The most popular Campbell's Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard. |
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| The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble. |
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| The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe. |
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| The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches. |
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| The U.S. is the leading producer of strawberries, and supplies about 20% of the world's strawberries. |
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| The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old! |
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| There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes. |
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| There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM. |
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| There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing! |
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| To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. |
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| Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous. |
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| With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light. |
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| Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup. |
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