Fun Friday Food Facts: Christmas 2024 edition
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20th Dec 2024 - 07:00
- Fruitcake: Fruitcakes date back to ancient Rome, where they were made with pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins.
Friday Food Facts
Fun Friday Food Facts: Chat GPT edition
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8th Nov 2024 - 07:00
- Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.
- Tomatoes ar
Fun Friday Food Facts: Pasta edition
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25th Oct 2024 - 07:00
- Passengers flying directly from Genoa can take one jar up to 500g (or two jars up to 250g) of pesto onto their plane, provided the jar has been scanned in a special X-ray machine.
Fun Friday Food Facts: Pepperoni Pizza Day
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20th Sep 2024 - 07:00
- The largest pizza ever made used 6,193Kg of dough, 2,244Kg of sweet marinara sauce, 3,992Kg of cheese and around 630,496 slices of pepperoni.
- Pizza Hut claim to have been the first
Fun Friday Food Facts: 2024 Paris Olympics edition
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26th Jul 2024 - 08:00
- The Paris Olympics will deliver 13 million meals, the equivalent of the amount provided at ten football World Cup tournaments.
Fun Friday Food Facts Football European Championship edition
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14th Jun 2024 - 08:49
- The world record for carrying steins of beer was set in 2021 by Bavarian Oliver Strümpfel, who carried 29 in his hands for 40m
- Germany produces more 1,200 different types of sausag
Fun Friday Food Facts Popcorn edition
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19th Jan 2024 - 06:00
- Popcorn kernels can pop-up to three feet in the air.
- Nebraska is the largest producer of Popcorn in the world as it makes around 250 million pounds of Popcorn annually (one quarter
Christmas Fun Food Facts
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21st Dec 2023 - 07:00
- The largest Brussell sprout weighed 8.3Kg.
- A family in Michigan has kept a Christmas cake for over 140 years.
- Dolly Parton has her own Christmas sugar cookie kit that peo
Fun Friday Food Facts Rugby World Cup edition
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8th Sep 2023 - 06:00
- It wasn’t until August 1956, that the Ministry of National Education forbade the serving of alcoholic drinks in schools to children under 14-years-old.
- France produces around one b
Fun Friday Food Facts Women’s World Cup edition
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18th Aug 2023 - 06:00
- During his election victory speech in 2007, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made reference to the Iced VoVo (a wheat-flour biscuit with pink fondant and raspberry jam).
- Austra