Friday Food Facts

• 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

• The first Oscars ceremony in 1929 served guests broiled chicken on toast, consommé Celestine, ‘long branch potatoes’ (known better today as French fries), filet of sole and cake with ice cre

• The longest noodle in the world was more than 3km long and was made by chefs from the Xiangnian Food Co.
• The UK's favourite pizza topping is vegetarian, followed by pepperoni, four