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Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.28

Written by Edward Waddell
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20th Jul 2018 - 09:47
  • Made with mashed potatoes or potato starch, potato doughnuts were once so popular they had their own fast food chain: Spudnuts.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.27

Written by Edward Waddell
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13th Jul 2018 - 07:00
  • The way actor Peter Sallis had Wallace say the word ‘cheese’ in the Wallace & Gromit films prompted creator Nick Park to radically change his initial design for the character’s head so h

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.25

Written by Edward Waddell
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22nd Jun 2018 - 10:09
  • The word ‘Avocado’ comes from an Aztec word that also means testicle
  • Napoleon set aside 70,000 acres to explore beet root’s sugar-producing potential.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.24

Written by Edward Waddell
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15th Jun 2018 - 08:40
  • The pufferfish fugu, a Japanese delicacy, is so poisonous that the smallest mistake in its preparation could lead to the death of the person eating it
  • Japanese cuisine is one of on

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.23

Written by Edward Waddell
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8th Jun 2018 - 09:21
  • Coca-Cola was discontinued in 2008, Coke Black was Coca-Cola’s coffee-flavored fizzy-pop which they introduced in 2006 and discontinued in 2008.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.22

Written by Edward Waddell
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1st Jun 2018 - 09:49
  • Under the terms of its Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status, only pork pies made within an 11 square mile zone around the town can be called Melton Mowbray pork pies
  • Runn

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.21

Written by Edward Waddell
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25th May 2018 - 10:12
  • Louis Pasteur developed pasteurisation for beer more than 20 years before he did it for milk
  • Despite its creamy texture, milk is comprised of 85-95% water.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.20

Written by Edward Waddell
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18th May 2018 - 09:50
  • Ants don’t like cucumber peel, which contains a chemical called an unsaturated aldehyde that they will avoid at all costs.

Fun Friday Food Facts 2018 Vol.19

Written by Edward Waddell
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11th May 2018 - 10:25
  • To give your food that smokey, barbecue flavour even if it’s cooked indoors under an electric grill, then marinate it in lapsang souchong, a black Chinese tea
  • In 2009, researchers