Friday Food Facts

•    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.

• John Cleese’s father’s surname was Cheese.

• Eggs symbolise fertility, so farmers used to scatter broken eggs into their fields hoping this would bring forth an abundant crop.
• In Japan, sticking chopsticks upright into a bowl

• People have been making and drinking alcohol for nearly as long as human history.