Food Facts P6
Food Facts P6
- The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker’s apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.
- Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.
- It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of raisins.
- Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
- Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S.
- 13 boxes of jello are sold every second.
- The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast.
- A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth.
- An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.
- A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
- An etiquette writer of the 1840’s advised, Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.
- Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
- California’s Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
- During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.
- In 1860, ‘Godey’s Lady’s Book’ advised US women to cook tomatoes for at least 3 hours.
- Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world’s population.
- Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.
- The Pillsbury Bake-off has been held every year since 1948.
- The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.
- The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
- The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
- The white part of an egg is the albumen.
- The white potato originated in the Andes Mountains and was probably brought to Britain by Sir Francis Drake about 1586.
