Friday Food Facts

• Seven lucky foods to eat during Chinese New Year include fish (increase your prosperity), dumplings (wealth), spring rolls (wealth), sweet rice balls (togetherness), good fortune fruit (full

• In 1644 Oliver Cromwell banned pies and other treats because he saw it as a ‘gluttonous act’.

• The term vegan was first used in November 1944 when a British woodworker named Donald Watson, a vegetarian who did not eat eggs or dairy, coined it to describe himself.
• Up to 1% of

• Over 100 billion bananas are consumed every year, with around half of them eaten for breakfast.
• Patrick Bertoletti holds the record for the most waffles eaten in ten minutes- he at

• The Christmas tradition of a chocolate yule log is believed to have begun in France as a way of helping people without fireplaces to join this ancient mid-winter log-burning ritual.

• The national cake of Australia is called a Lamington.

• The cocoa beans from which chocolate is made only thrive in tropical zones around the Equator, where the climatic conditions are just right.
• The first ever solid chocolate bar was

• The first ever Thanksgiving took place in 1621 and on average over 46 million turkeys are consumed every year as part of the celebrations.
• During Thanksgiving dinner a y-shaped bon

• Foods made specifically for children first became popular in Victorian England, when parents were advised to give their children cod-liver oil daily to improve their health.
• The fi

Here are some of the other efforts that have been tried:

* Paolo Di Canio banned ketchup and mayonnaise, as well as ice and Coca-Cola, at Sunderland in 2013.