Dinner guests during the medieval times in England were expected to bring their own knives to the table.
In eighteenth-century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were allowed to stand in a roped-off section of the main dining room and watch the king and queen eat.
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy.
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
It is estimated that Americans consume ten million tons of turkey on thanksgiving Day. Due to turkey's high sulfur content, Americans also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of seventy-five Hindenburgs from Los Angeles to new York in twenty-four hours.
The Southern dish 'chitlins" is made up of pigs' small intestines.
Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past twenty-five years.
In Australia, the number-one topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it's pepperoni.
The world's number-one producer and consumer of fresh pork is China.
China produces 278,564,356,980 eggs per year.
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat nine thousand people at one time.
If China imported just 10 percent of its rice needs, the price on the world market would increase by 80 percent.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. More than half of the different types of cheese in the world come from France.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Japan is the largest exporter of frogs' legs.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.
Since 1978, at least thirty-seven people have died as a result of shaking vending machines in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than one hundred have been injured.
Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune systems.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency.
You should not eat a crayfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
There are more than fifteen thousand different kinds of rice. Rice is grown on more than 10 percent of the earth's farmable surface and is the main food for half of the people of the world.
Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility.
Shredded Wheat was the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal.
The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires two tons of water to grow.
No two cornflakes look the same.
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the U.S. government spent $277,000 on "pickle research" in 1993.
