Food and Drink Facts

Fact Page: The 'Big Dipper' is known as 'The Casserole' in France.
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Fact Page: The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
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Fact Page: The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
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Fact Page: The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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Fact Page: The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.
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After cocoa beans are harvested they need to be fermented. This means that they are put in an earthen pit near where they are harvested and covered with leaves. In the hot sun they ferment (rot) and then can be shoveled out as mature cocoa beans. Of course during this process lots of insects are present. Doesn't mean it is bad for you.

Fact Page: The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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Fact Page: The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
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Fact Page: Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
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Fact Page: Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.
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Fact Page: Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.
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Fact Page: Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.
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Fact Page: Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!
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Fact Page: Pearls melt in vinegar.
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Fact Page: Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.
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Fact Page: Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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Fact Page: Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.
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Fact Page: More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!
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Fact Page: McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
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Fact Page: Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
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Fact Page: It takes twelve years of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
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