Friday Food Facts

• The word curry comes from a Tamil word kari or karil, meaning spices or sautéed vegetables.
• On average Brits will spend around £30,000 on curry during their lifetime.
• The

• Arabica and Robusta coffee beans account for more than 90% of coffee drunk, the rest comes from two much rarer varieties – Liberica and Excelsa.
• The heaviest coffee drinkers in the

• By 2050 the world population is expected to exceed 10 billion people and to feed them all we will require 70% more food and 120% more water.
• Sherbet lemons are described as a ‘mugg

• On Super Bowl Sunday around 58% of Americans order pizza, which makes it the highest selling day for pizza than any average day in a given calendar year.
• Italy produced about 22% o

• Goat meat accounts for around 70% of the red meat consumed globally.
• In Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the very strongly smelling durian fruit is banned from buses, sub

• In Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel From Russia, With Love, it’s revealed that James Bond has marmalade on his toast.
• Eighty percent of a cricket can be eaten, while only 55% of a pig and

* Contrary to popular belief, sumo wrestlers don’t sit around eating all day, they generally eat only twice a day. However they do pack 4,000 or more calories into those two meals.

• The giant sweets known as gobstoppers are built up by slowly depositing layers of coloured, flavoured liquid sugar and can take weeks to manufacture.
• In the UK a Prairie Oyster is

• Besides blueberries, other naturally occurring blue foods include blue corn, the Adirondack blue potato and the fruit of the Australian blue marble tree.
• Foreign food brand names c

• Japan has as many as five million vending machines and it has the highest density of vending machines worldwide.
• Research has revealed a 74% rise in Japanese restaurant bookings as