lilhave
12-16-2006, 10:49 AM
Someone living in New York could eat out every night of their life and never eat at the same restaurant.
-The Snickers bar is America's most popular candy bar.
-Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
-The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
-Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not.
-Broccoli was introduced into the U.S. in the 1920's.
-Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
-Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada.
-A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment.
-Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day.
-Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.
-A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.
-There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label.
-Coffee is the world's most recognizable smell.
-Most icecream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
-Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.
-It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of raisins.
-Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S.
-13 boxes of jello are sold every second.
-A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth.
-An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.
-Five failed Jell-O flavors: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
-Wrigley's gum was the first product with a bar code.
-The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his or her lifetime.
-Americans eat over 75 acres of pizza a day.
-There are an average of eight peas in a pod.
-The banana could be extinct in 10 years.
-McDonald's calls frequent buyers of their food "heavy users."
-Rats destroy roughly 1/3 of the world's food supply each year.
-Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
-Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast each day.
-A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6mg of caffine.
-A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake was sold on e-bay.
-Alcoholic beverages have 13 minerals that are necessary for human life.
-The fortune cookie was invented by Los Angeles noodlemaker George Jung in 1916.
-Table salt is the only commodity that hasn't risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
-SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.
-The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.
-There are coffee flavored pez.
-A-1 steak sauce has both orange peel and raisins.
-You are most likely to be allergic to nuts.
-The darker green a vegetable is, the more vitamin C it has.
-Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
-The only tree from which we eat the flower is the fig.
-The tomato comes in over 4,000 varieties.
-Peanut butter sandwiches weren't popular until the 1920's.
-The average American eats 5 gallons of frozen desserts each year.
-Jimmy Dewar, the inventor of the twinkie, ate 40,177 of the golden treats in his lifetime.
-Americans consume an average 736 million pounds of peanut butter each year.
-French fries are the single most ordered item in American restaurants.
-Lubberwort is another word for junkfood.
-Mayonnaise is a great skin moisturizer.
-The top 5 soft drinks in the U.S. are: Coke Classic, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Mt. Dew, Sprite.
-Top 5 holiday pies in the U.S.: pumpkin, apple, cherry, lemon meringue, pecan.
-Of the 1,000 varieties of cherries grown in the U.S. only 10 are grown commercially.
-The heaviest pumpkin ever recorded weighed 1,061 pounds.
-People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
-It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.
-When pizza became popular in the U.S. in the 1930's, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%.
-Peanuts are used in dynamite.
-In Japan, you can buy cocoa flavored with 2% chili pepper sauce.
-World's largest restaurant: the Royal Dragon in Bangkok, serving 5,000 diners at once, all 541 waiters on roller skates.
-You can buy horseradish ice cream in Tokyo.
-According to Pickle Packers International, the crunch of a pickle should be audiable from 10 paces.
-In France, it is considered good taste to put pig brains on your crackers.
-The French eat an average of 200 million frogs each year.
-Olives and tomatoes are both fruits.
-Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola, and Hires Root Beer were all invented in 1886.
-Coconut shells can absorb more impact than a crash helmet.
-One in every 5 potatoes grown in the U.S. end up as french fries.
-The average American eats 4 pounds of artificial flavorings, colorings, and preservatives each year.
-Americans eat 4 million pounds of bacon and 175 million eggs every day.
-The average American spends two years of their life waiting for meals to be served.
-The Snickers bar is America's most popular candy bar.
-Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
-The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
-Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not.
-Broccoli was introduced into the U.S. in the 1920's.
-Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
-Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada.
-A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment.
-Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day.
-Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.
-A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.
-There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label.
-Coffee is the world's most recognizable smell.
-Most icecream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
-Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.
-It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of raisins.
-Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S.
-13 boxes of jello are sold every second.
-A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth.
-An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.
-Five failed Jell-O flavors: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
-Wrigley's gum was the first product with a bar code.
-The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his or her lifetime.
-Americans eat over 75 acres of pizza a day.
-There are an average of eight peas in a pod.
-The banana could be extinct in 10 years.
-McDonald's calls frequent buyers of their food "heavy users."
-Rats destroy roughly 1/3 of the world's food supply each year.
-Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
-Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast each day.
-A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6mg of caffine.
-A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake was sold on e-bay.
-Alcoholic beverages have 13 minerals that are necessary for human life.
-The fortune cookie was invented by Los Angeles noodlemaker George Jung in 1916.
-Table salt is the only commodity that hasn't risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.
-SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.
-The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.
-There are coffee flavored pez.
-A-1 steak sauce has both orange peel and raisins.
-You are most likely to be allergic to nuts.
-The darker green a vegetable is, the more vitamin C it has.
-Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
-The only tree from which we eat the flower is the fig.
-The tomato comes in over 4,000 varieties.
-Peanut butter sandwiches weren't popular until the 1920's.
-The average American eats 5 gallons of frozen desserts each year.
-Jimmy Dewar, the inventor of the twinkie, ate 40,177 of the golden treats in his lifetime.
-Americans consume an average 736 million pounds of peanut butter each year.
-French fries are the single most ordered item in American restaurants.
-Lubberwort is another word for junkfood.
-Mayonnaise is a great skin moisturizer.
-The top 5 soft drinks in the U.S. are: Coke Classic, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Mt. Dew, Sprite.
-Top 5 holiday pies in the U.S.: pumpkin, apple, cherry, lemon meringue, pecan.
-Of the 1,000 varieties of cherries grown in the U.S. only 10 are grown commercially.
-The heaviest pumpkin ever recorded weighed 1,061 pounds.
-People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
-It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.
-When pizza became popular in the U.S. in the 1930's, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%.
-Peanuts are used in dynamite.
-In Japan, you can buy cocoa flavored with 2% chili pepper sauce.
-World's largest restaurant: the Royal Dragon in Bangkok, serving 5,000 diners at once, all 541 waiters on roller skates.
-You can buy horseradish ice cream in Tokyo.
-According to Pickle Packers International, the crunch of a pickle should be audiable from 10 paces.
-In France, it is considered good taste to put pig brains on your crackers.
-The French eat an average of 200 million frogs each year.
-Olives and tomatoes are both fruits.
-Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola, and Hires Root Beer were all invented in 1886.
-Coconut shells can absorb more impact than a crash helmet.
-One in every 5 potatoes grown in the U.S. end up as french fries.
-The average American eats 4 pounds of artificial flavorings, colorings, and preservatives each year.
-Americans eat 4 million pounds of bacon and 175 million eggs every day.
-The average American spends two years of their life waiting for meals to be served.