You can gain a diploma in sausages. At the Sausage Academy in Neumarkt, Germany (where else?) you can become a sausage expert, broadening your knowledge about ideal lagers, mustards and music to best accompany different varieties of sausage.
Christmas dinner in Italy can last for more than 4 hours. Most families will have 7 or more courses including antipasti, a small portion of pasta, a roast meal, followed by 2 salads and 2 sweet puddings - then cheese fruit, brandy and chocolates.
In Elizabethan times, stewed prunes were so highly regarded as aphrodisiacs that they were served for free in brothels.
A Terry’s Chocolate Orange ranks highly on many people’s favourite chocolate lists, but the Chocolate Orange came to life as the spin off of the much more successful Terry’s Chocolate Apple and Terry’s Chocolate Lemon. The underdog always wins in the end though because both are now no longer made and the Orange variety is one of the best selling chocolates at Christmas.
The vegetable broccoli is … green.
In 2014 49-year-old Stuart Kettell rolled a Brussels sprout to the top of Mount Snowdon using only his nose, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer support. It took him four days and made £5,000.
All crisp packets have a Saturday sell-by date.
Popcorn is the official snack of Illinois, Since 1958 there has been an annual Popcorn day which falls on the second Saturday of September.
King of the cowboy actors, John Wayne used to stay at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Hollywood, he kept a cow on the balcony of his apartment there. When he served visitors coffee Wayne would wave towards the window and say: “Help yourself to milk.”
In the first-ever World Hard Boiled Egg-Eating Championship, Joey Chestnut devoured the world record with 141 eggs in 8 minutes.