Fun Friday Food Facts, Vol. 47
- The average person in the United States of America consumes 48 pints of ice cream every
• A Bedfordshire Clanger is a bit like a Cornish pasty, but has a savoury filling at one end and sweet one at the other.
Some things, though, do not change and we’ve got our regular helping of food facts for you:
* Beatles are the most popular insect delicacy, accounting for 31% of all insects eaten
* Honey is popular in Slovenia where one in 20 people own a beehive
• From the 1950s to the 1970s the UK and Iceland were involved with a conflict over fishing areas in the Atlantic Ocean. It was known as the Cod War.
• Some of the most unusual crisp flavours from around the world include seaweed, red caviar, Pepsi flavoured, cucumber and salmon sushi.
* The two main ingredients of a ‘Dark and Stormy’ cocktail are dark rum and ginger beer. A suitable drink, perhaps, for the autumnal season.