25th Jan 2019 - 08:33
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Brighten up this cold, miserable Friday with some Fun Friday Food Facts!
- In 1996, Gillingham football club fans were threatened with a life ban if they brought celery sticks into the ground. This is because they used to sing a ’suggestive' song about celery while waving it around
- By law, in France a a traditional baguette can only have three ingredients – flour, yeast and salt – and must weigh 250-300 gram
- Traditional Thai cuisine is a perfect blend of four seasonings – salty, sweet, sour, and spicy. Almost every Thai dish combines all four tastes
- Switzerland, where milk chocolate was first developed, leads the world in eating the stuff as well. Swiss consume 19.4lb (8.8kg) each on average every year, while the British are the fourth biggest choc munchers, getting through 16.8lb each
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