Friday Food Facts

Did you know that a wine that tastes watery is said to taste “dilute.” Means that It may have been made from grapes picked during a rainstorm.

Heinz has had to re-style its ketchup as ‘seasoning’ to sell it in Israel after courts ruled the 21% tomato content fell far short of the 41% needed to meet the country’s food standard for ketchu

Elvis Presley was famously a fan of the “Sleeping Beauty Diet,” or a diet where a person is sedated for days at time. The reasoning behind the diet was that a sleeping person wouldn’t eat.

Car pioneer Henry Ford thought soya beans were the future. In 1935 he had his engineers use them to develop a plastic for the frames of his cars.

Tea bags were created by accident.

Doritos were invented at Disneyland. The snack was created when a route salesman told a cook at a Mexican restaurant to use discarded tortillas and make tortilla chips.

The vinegar added to flavour salt and vinegar crisps is not liquid.

Brits throw away 160 million bananas every year because they have a slight bruise or mark on the skin and if laid out on the floor would stretch from the UK to New Zealand.

KFC was one of the first fast food franchises to move into Asian markets. The chain’s slogan used to be ‘finger-licking good,’ which was changed in 2011.