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Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 20

4th Dec 2015 - 10:06
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IT'S CHRISTMAS!! Pop on the kettle, turn on the lights on the Christmas tree and enjoy our 20th edition of Friday Food Facts.

The largest food item on a menu is roast camel. The camel is stuffed with a sheep’s carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs. This feast is sometimes featured in Bedouin weddings.

The world record for the biggest bag of crisps ever contained around 826,000 crisps, which took 15 hours to cook. The bag weighed just over a tonne.

The biggest tomato fight in the world happens each year in the small Spanish town of Buñol. The festival called La Tomatina, involves some 40,000 people throwing 150,000 tomatoes at each other.

A potato boiled for eight minutes can be used as a battery that produces ten times the power of a raw one and can be used to provide a room with LED lighting  for up to 40 days.

Snail caviar also referred to as escargot pearls is collected from snails after they give birth to them out of the side of their necks.
It’s a rare and popular delicacy worth £105 for a 50g jar. All snails can produce the eggs as they have both girl and boy parts.

The chocolate bar Kit Kat sounds a lot like the Japanese phrase kitto katsu, which roughly translates to ‘I hope you succeed!’ Parents buy them for their children before exams.

The toy capsules in Kinder Eggs are purposely yellow plastic to represent a yolk of a real egg

Bread contains human hair. L-cysteine is an amino acid used in baking to condition the dough. It is most often derived from human hair because that is the cheapest source of L-cystein

The growling noise your belly makes when you are hungry is called borborygmi (pronounced bor-bor-ig-me) and is created by muscle contractions in your stomach and intestines.

Written by
PSC Team