Friday Food Facts

Fun Friday Food Facts: food destinations edition

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3rd Jan 2025 - 07:00

Mexico City, Mexico: Mexico City is known for Its Antojitos, which are small and flavourful snacks that are typically sold by street vendors.

Fun Friday Food Facts: Christmas 2024 edition

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20th Dec 2024 - 07:00

Fruitcake: Fruitcakes date back to ancient Rome, where they were made with pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins.

Fun Friday Food Facts: Chat GPT edition

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8th Nov 2024 - 07:00

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
Tomatoes ar

Fun Friday Food Facts: Pasta edition

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25th Oct 2024 - 07:00

Passengers flying directly from Genoa can take one jar up to 500g (or two jars up to 250g) of pesto onto their plane, provided the jar has been scanned in a special X-ray machine.

Fun Friday Food Facts: Pepperoni Pizza Day

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20th Sep 2024 - 07:00

The largest pizza ever made used 6,193Kg of dough, 2,244Kg of sweet marinara sauce, 3,992Kg of cheese and around 630,496 slices of pepperoni.
Pizza Hut claim to have been the first

Fun Friday Food Facts: 2024 Paris Olympics edition

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26th Jul 2024 - 08:00

The Paris Olympics will deliver 13 million meals, the equivalent of the amount provided at ten football World Cup tournaments.

Fun Friday Food Facts Football European Championship edition

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14th Jun 2024 - 08:49

The world record for carrying steins of beer was set in 2021 by Bavarian Oliver Strümpfel, who carried 29 in his hands for 40m
Germany produces more 1,200 different types of sausag

Fun Friday Food Facts Popcorn edition

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19th Jan 2024 - 06:00

Popcorn kernels can pop-up to three feet in the air.
Nebraska is the largest producer of Popcorn in the world as it makes around 250 million pounds of Popcorn annually (one quarter

Christmas Fun Food Facts

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21st Dec 2023 - 07:00

The largest Brussell sprout weighed 8.3Kg.
A family in Michigan has kept a Christmas cake for over 140 years.
Dolly Parton has her own Christmas sugar cookie kit that peo

Fun Friday Food Facts Rugby World Cup edition

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8th Sep 2023 - 06:00

It wasn’t until August 1956, that the Ministry of National Education forbade the serving of alcoholic drinks in schools to children under 14-years-old.
France produces around one b