* Snackwells – Just two Devils Food cookie cakes from the Nabisco ‘low-fat’ and ‘zero cholesterol’ brand provided nearly a third of your daily sugar allowance
• Frederick the Great of Prussia, who died in 1786 at the age of 74, reputedly drank coffee mixed with Champagne and mustard.
• Samuel Born was given the key to the city of San Francisco in 1916 for inventing the machine that inserts sticks into ice lollies.
• Pope Benedict XVI drank more than five times his own bodyweight in Fanta every year
• Milk from the elephant seal is twice as thick as whipping cream
* You need a licence to sell seaweed in England.
* The ‘slush’ in the phrase ‘slush fund’ originally referred to leftover fat from cooking on board that sailors sold for profit.
* It might not look it, but Guinness isn’t black; it’s actually very dark red.
A whole orange will float on water, but sinks if you peel it.
Importing and exporting bananas involves more trade regulations than if you were dealing with AK-47 assault rifles.
In the same Dunkirk spirit of maintaining cheerfulness in the face of adversity, we offer up some less-than-serious food facts for you.