Friday Food Facts

•    The Carolina Reaper is the hottest chilli in the world; a man died after eating one in a chilli-eating contest in New York State in 2018.

* The heatproof sleeve on the outside of a disposable coffee cup is called a ‘zarf ’.

* The drug valium, used for its calming effect, is present in potatoes.

* Concrete is stronger if carrots are added to it.

* A glass of calvados (apple brandy) contains seven apples.

* During a 2007 costume-themed pub crawl, ‘all Captain Americas were asked to go outside for a possible identification’ after one Captain America with a burrito stuffed down his tights assaulted tw

* 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.