Food+facts


 * **Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.**


 * **An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.**


 * **According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.**


 * **Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.**


 * **According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.**


 * **A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay.**


 * **Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.**


 * **Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food.**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The McDonald's in New Delhi, India makes their burgers with mutton as many Hindus do not eat beef.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The most expensive spice in the world is saffron.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Australia.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The French have a doughnut called "Nun's Fart."**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**The most popular meal ordered at restaurants in the U.S. is fried chicken.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Approximately two gallons of water are used to brush your teeth.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**Egyptian pyramid builders used to eat a lot of garlic because they thought it would increase their strength.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**On average, each American consumes approximately two hundred and sixty pounds of meat in a year.**

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.**