- The color of a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
- The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her doting father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.
- The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.
- The dye used to stamp the grade on meat is edible. It's made from grape skins.
- The Agen plum which would become the basis of the US prune industry was first planted in California in 1856.
- The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation.
- The California grape and wine industries were started by Count Agoston Haraszthy de Moksa, who planted Tokay, Zinfandel, and Shiras varieties from his native Hungary in Buena Vista in 1857.
- Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.
- Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.
- Potato chips are American's favorite snack food. They are devoured at a rate of 1.2 billion pounds a year.
- Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.
- McDonald's "Big Mac" slogan, introduced in 1975, is: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun."
- McDonalds and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown.
- Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.
- Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice cream sundae in Evanston, IL, in 1875.
- To determine the percentage of alcohol in a bottle of liquor divide the proof by two.
- Van Camp's Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War.
- When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
- The Pillsbury Bake-off has been held every year since 1948.
- The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.
- The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
- The white part of an egg is the albumen.
- The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
- In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
- Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.
- An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
- California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
- Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
- Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
- Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
- Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
- In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese, and named it after himself: Cobb salad.
- The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
- 1/3 of all potatoes end up as French fries.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
- The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
- It takes 50 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of maple sugar.
- Brazil Nuts are only grown in Rain Forests.
- The world's rarest coffee cost $300 a pound. It is called Kopi Luwak and comes from Indonesia!
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