Food Trivia

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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.