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Fun Friday Food Facts 2016 Vol. 35

23rd Sep 2016 - 09:53
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In the week where everyone's favourite baking show crumbled before our very eyes, we found lots of great food facts.

No hotel or restaurant had a special children’s menu until the US ban on alcohol sales under ‘Prohibition’ in 1920. Looking for alternative revenue streams to make up for the drop in booze sales, they targeted family dining out and added lots of plain and simple foods that were marked up on menus just for children.

It was actually legal to drink alcohol during the prohibition. A major loophole allowed people to stockpile alcohol and consume it at home as the 18th amendment only prohibited the production, importation and sale of alcohol. It was reported that even President Warren G Harding took advantage and moved his entire stock to the White House prior to the law coming into force.

Fed up of using ice to keep your wine cold which also dilutes it the same time, by using frozen grapes it will enhance the flavour and keep it chilled without watering it down.

Marmite is one of the most confiscated items at airports from the UK – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for travelling

It's a numbers game! Just one in ten of us know the number ‘57’ on a Heinz ketchup bottle is the “sweet spot”. It’s a fact, tap the number and your ketchup will garnish your meal faster than shaking the bottle, hitting the bottom or any other secret technique you’ve been let into. Even Heinz says so!

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PSC Team