Skip to main content
Search Results

Friday Food Facts

Fun Friday Food Facts 2019 Vol. 1

Written by Edward Waddell
|
4th Jan 2019 - 09:24
  • Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War (but not with great tasting results apparently)
  • The world’s biggest chocolate chip cookie weighed over 20 tons

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 46

Written by Melissa Moody
|
7th Dec 2018 - 09:42
  • Vodka stays liquid even in your freezer because it typically has a freezing point of nearly -27 deg C, while most domestic freezers can’t go lower than -17 deg C.
  • Chewing gum is pa

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 45

Written by Melissa Moody
|
30th Nov 2018 - 08:56
  •  While it's pretty common knowledge that avocado is a fruit and not veg, did you know that it has the highest protein content of all fruit?!
  • Nestlé launched a cough drop flavo

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 44

Written by Edward Waddell
|
23rd Nov 2018 - 09:59
  • Turkeys have long been popular for Christmas dinner. In Victorian England, some of the birds were raised in Norfolk and taken to market in London.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 43

Written by Edward Waddell
|
16th Nov 2018 - 08:32
  • You can hear rhubarb grow! During a process known as ‘rhubarb forcing’, you can hear a cacophony of pops as it grows.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 42

Written by Edward Waddell
|
2nd Nov 2018 - 10:10
  • Contrary to popular belief, if swallowed, chewing gum does not sit in your body for 7 years.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 41

Written by Edward Waddell
|
26th Oct 2018 - 07:00
  • The world’s largest pumpkin pie on record used 495 litres of evaporated milk, 233 dozen eggs and 525lbs of sugar.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol. 39

Written by Melissa Moody
|
12th Oct 2018 - 10:14
  • Broccoli contains more protien than steak 
  • Grapes will explode if put in the microwave. If you split a grape almost in half and put it in the microwave, it will create an explosive