Friday Food Facts

* Contrary to popular belief, sumo wrestlers don’t sit around eating all day, they generally eat only twice a day. However they do pack 4,000 or more calories into those two meals.

• The giant sweets known as gobstoppers are built up by slowly depositing layers of coloured, flavoured liquid sugar and can take weeks to manufacture.
• In the UK a Prairie Oyster is

• Besides blueberries, other naturally occurring blue foods include blue corn, the Adirondack blue potato and the fruit of the Australian blue marble tree.
• Foreign food brand names c

• Japan has as many as five million vending machines and it has the highest density of vending machines worldwide.
• Research has revealed a 74% rise in Japanese restaurant bookings as

• In the film Zombieland Tallahassee is obsessed with searching for twinkies but actor Woody Harrelson is a vegan so he consumed a mock version made from cornmeal instead of genuine twinkies.<

• McDonald’s sells 2.5 billion hamburgers every year, which equates to 75 individual burgers being sold every second.
• According to a YouGov poll carried out in February 2021 the most

• Italy is the largest exporter of wine in the world and on average each person drinks over 45 bottles of wine a year.
• Queen Victoria was very fond of the good old British banger but

• On July 4th Americans are expected to eat 150m hot dogs, which laid end-to-end would cross the country five times.
• The largest food crop grown in the US is corn; in 2019 farmers pl

• In the UK McDonald’s fries are vegan and cooked separately from other ingredients; in the US, though, they add a ‘beef flavouring’ derived from milk.
• In 2016 over 163 million tonne