Friday Food Facts

• The world’s biggest barbecue was unintentional when a warehouse of barbecue charcoal in Norfolk caught fire in 2005.

• Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton set up a plant-based burger chain in the Autumn of 2019.
• According to a survey the most popular reasons given for adopting a plant-based diet incl

• Argentina is only one of five countries in the world that has more cows than people, which are used to make the famous steaks.
• The guinea pig is a delicacy in Boli

• Potatoes are the most wasted food in the UK, with 1.6 billion thrown away every year.
• Annual per capita waste by consumers is between 95-115kgs a year for Europeans and North Ameri

• The dessert Eton Mess was first served at Eton College in the late 19th century at school cricket matches.
• According to research the celebrity that people in England would most lik

P: It is estimated that over 9,000 peas are eaten per person over the course of a year in Britain.

• Encebollado is considered by most people to be the national dish of Ecuador.

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was temporarily banned in India because of the infamous ‘Dinner of Doom’ scene.

• More than a third of the average slice of bread is ‘moisture’; if you dried it thoroughly it would weigh 38% less afterwards.
• The water footprint of refined sugar is 1,780 litres o

• If global food waste was a country it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the US and China.
• The UK throws away around 9.5m tonnes of food waste in a single