Friday Food Facts

• On July 4th Americans are expected to eat 150m hot dogs, which laid end-to-end would cross the country five times.
• The largest food crop grown in the US is corn; in 2019 farmers pl

• In the UK McDonald’s fries are vegan and cooked separately from other ingredients; in the US, though, they add a ‘beef flavouring’ derived from milk.
• In 2016 over 163 million tonne

• The key ingredients of the ‘full English’ breakfast include fried eggs, sausages, grilled bacon and tomatoes, mushrooms and fried bread with black pudding usually featuring

• It’s difficult to imagine Italian cuisine without the tomato, but it took 300 years from its first introduction before it started to become a staple ingredient in the early

• At Christmas in 2018 parenting blogger Mark Hoyle, aka LadBaby, reached number one with his single ‘We Built This City (On Sausage Rolls)’, a parody of the 1985 hit song ‘We Built This City

• The oldest commercial barbecue sauce still made – Scott’s Family Barbecue Sauce – was first sold in North Carolina in 1917.
• The prototype of Weber’s iconic kettle barbecue was actu

• You can buy a giant team mug on Amazon that holds 70fl oz or 2 litres of hot beverage.
• We Brits are fond of our tea, but we only come in third in terms of consumption per person, w

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• Over half a million people from 209 countries signed up for Veganuary 2021.
• A fifth of people cooked a plant-based Christmas dinner in 2020.
• In 2020 around 1,200 new vega

• The top cheese eating country is Denmark, where on average everyone consumes 28.1kg of cheese a year.
• By some estimates, there are more than 1,800 different types of cheese in the