Wedding Food & Drink: Meeting Wedding Guests’ Dietary Needs?
December 28, 2016
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
- A survey showed 29% of adults say they have been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking biscuits.
- Orthorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where the sufferer is obsessed with eating healthy food.
- Dry swallowing one teaspoon of sugar can commonly cure hiccups.
- In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your back pocket.
- The fear of cooking is known as Mageirocophobia and is a recognised phobia.
- The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
- Frank Mars invented the Snickers chocolate bar. He named it Snickers after his favourite horse.
- The M’s in M & M’s stand for ‘Mars & Murrie’, the co-creators of the candy.
- Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- In South Africa, termites and ants are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like popcorn.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
- Marmite was first introduced into the UK in 1902.
- The ancient Greeks chewed a gum-like substance called mastic that came from the bark of a tree.
- Honeybee workers must visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- If you boil beetroot in water and then massage the water into your scalp each night, it works as an effective cure for dandruff.
- In the United States, lettuce is the second most popular fresh vegetable.
- Grape growing is the largest food industry in the world as there are more than 60 species and 8000 varieties of grapes.
- The average person eats eight pounds of grapes each year.
- There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world.
- Blueberries are a good source of Vitamin C and fibre.
- Carrots have zero fat content.
- Peanuts can be used to make dynamite.
- A watermelon is over 92% water by weight.
- Alliumphobia is the fear of garlic.
- Onion is Latin for ‘large pearl’.
- Sugar is the only taste that humans are born craving.
- In America, anchovies always rank last on the list of favourite toppings.
- The world average of the amount of meat eaten per year is 173 lbs per person.
- French fries came from Belgium, but are most popular in the US.
- An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food every year!
- Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish.
- Pescetarians are vegetarians who eat fish.
- The Swiss eat the most chocolate, followed by the English.
- An average American will eat the equivalent of 28 pigs in their lifetime.
- Cheese products contain less than 51% cheese.
