Friday Food Facts

• Sweden, Finland, Estonia and India are among the few countries which provide free school meals to all pupils in compulsory education, regardless of their ability to pay.
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•    Red Bull, which was founded in 1987 in Austria, is the biggest energy drink brand in the world, selling more than 9.8bn cans in 2021

• Wales: Traditional Welsh recipes include cawl, bara birth, laverbread, Glamorgan sausage and Welsh rarebit.
• Scotland: Haggis is not only the natio

• Sesame Street in Nigeria has a version of Cookie Monster named Zobi the Yam Monster.

• Seven lucky foods to eat during Chinese New Year include fish (increase your prosperity), dumplings (wealth), spring rolls (wealth), sweet rice balls (togetherness), good fortune fruit (full

• In 1644 Oliver Cromwell banned pies and other treats because he saw it as a ‘gluttonous act’.

• The term vegan was first used in November 1944 when a British woodworker named Donald Watson, a vegetarian who did not eat eggs or dairy, coined it to describe himself.
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• Over 100 billion bananas are consumed every year, with around half of them eaten for breakfast.
• Patrick Bertoletti holds the record for the most waffles eaten in ten minutes- he at

• The Christmas tradition of a chocolate yule log is believed to have begun in France as a way of helping people without fireplaces to join this ancient mid-winter log-burning ritual.

• The national cake of Australia is called a Lamington.