Cubby Broccoli, the producer behind the successful Bond films, lived up to his name. He was raised on the family vegetable farm and claimed his uncle brought the first broccoli seeds to the US in 1870.
In light of the EU Referendum I bring you this food related fact...
- Pythagoras’s theorem – 24 words
- The lord’s prayer – 66 words
- The ten commandments – 179 words
- The US declaration of independence – 1,300 words
- EU Regulations on the sale of cabbages – 26,911 words
Last year a petition to ‘make wrongly describing a casserole with a pastry lid as a pie a criminal offence’ gained 5,687 signatures. It argued that pie with a puff pastry lid is not actually a pie and is a casserole instead. Unfortunately it did not gain enough signatures to be debated in parliament.
Splinters, the bane of any parents life. But if you tape part of a banana peel over it the enzymes help work the splinter out of the skin and amazingly heal the wound.
Scotland is home to more than 20 million casks of maturing whisky. That’s almost four for every person living there.