Interesting facts about Food and Drinks

Facts about food & drinks:

• Ice cream was originally made without sugar and eggs.
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
• Only food that does not spoil: honey.
• In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.
• Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
• In medieval England beer often was served with breakfast.
• There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.
• Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.
• John Kellogg invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth. Charles Post invented Grape Nuts. Dr. Kellogg was the manager of a Michigan health spa and Post was a patient. The spa was founded by Sylvester Graham...inventor of the Graham cracker and pioneer of the early 1800s movement to eat more bran.
• Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.
• The secret recipe for Coca Cola, code-named "Merchandise 7X" is kept under lock and key in a vault in the SunTrust Bank Building in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Coke inventor Dr. John S. Pemberton and current world headquarters of Coca Cola International.
• SPAM stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
• Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
• The famous Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his popular chain of restaurants. In Italian - spago = "String" or "Twine" - slang for spaghetti.
• Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
• Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
• A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
• Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.
• Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
• Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food. The Ancient Greeks called carrots "Karoto".
• According to Hershey's Chocolate Company, Valentine's Day ranks fourth in candy sales, behind Halloween, Christmas and Easter.