03-14-2004, 04:13 PM
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate. Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds per person.
http://www.geocities.com/dragoncave101/psnews/psfood/psfood.html
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate. Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds per person.
http://www.geocities.com/dragoncave101/psnews/psfood/psfood.html