Friday Food Facts

•    A Bedfordshire Clanger is a bit like a Cornish pasty, but has a savoury filling at one end and sweet one at the other.

Some things, though, do not change and we’ve got our regular helping of food facts for you:

* Beatles are the most popular insect delicacy, accounting for 31% of all insects eaten
* Honey is popular in Slovenia where one in 20 people own a beehive

•    From the 1950s to the 1970s the UK and Iceland were involved with a conflict over fishing areas in the Atlantic Ocean. It was known as the Cod War.

•    Some of the most unusual crisp flavours from around the world include seaweed, red caviar, Pepsi flavoured, cucumber and salmon sushi.

* The two main ingredients of a ‘Dark and Stormy’ cocktail are dark rum and ginger beer. A suitable drink, perhaps, for the autumnal season.

* In Yorkshire there is a traditional scone-like cake that is known locally as a ‘fat rascal’.

* The Arizona Brewing Company operates out of New York State.

* The musical term intermezzo describes a palate-cleansing course served between two larger courses.