Friday Food Facts

In the same Dunkirk spirit of maintaining cheerfulness in the face of adversity, we offer up some less-than-serious food facts for you.

• John Cleese’s father’s surname was Cheese.

• Eggs symbolise fertility, so farmers used to scatter broken eggs into their fields hoping this would bring forth an abundant crop.
• In Japan, sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl

• People have been making and drinking alcohol for nearly as long as human history.

• Centuries ago in Sparta, young boys ini

• The ancient Greeks attempted to cure hangovers by wrapping their heads in cabbage leaves. 
• Scientists have found that listening to talk radio puts captive pumas off their food.

• There are an estimated seven billion unwanted male chickens culled every year.

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• Definitely not on your Veganuary menu – and probably not at any other time of year – is casu marzu, the Sardinian ‘rotten cheese’ that contains live maggots.
• Despite veganism growi