Friday Food Facts

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• Over half a million people from 209 countries signed up for Veganuary 2021.
• A fifth of people cooked a plant-based Christmas dinner in 2020.
• In 2020 around 1,200 new vega

• The top cheese eating country is Denmark, where on average everyone consumes 28.1kg of cheese a year.
• By some estimates, there are more than 1,800 different types of cheese in the

• The first Oscars ceremony in 1929 served guests broiled chicken on toast, consommé Celestine, ‘long branch potatoes’ (known better today as French fries), filet of sole and cake with ice cre

• The longest noodle in the world was more than 3km long and was made by chefs from the Xiangnian Food Co.
• The UK's favourite pizza topping is vegetarian, followed by pepperoni, four