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#20120 - Wed Jan 02 2002 09:45 AM Food and Drink
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40% of McDonald's profits come from the sale of Happy Meals.
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400 quarter pounders can be made out of one cow.
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5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next year will be flatter than a bad tire.
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7% of Americans eat McDonalds each day.
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A bowl of Wheaties contains twice as much sodium as a bowl of potato chips.
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A can of Diet Coke will float in water while a can of regular Coke sinks.
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A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
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A chili pepper isn't a pepper. In fact, more than two hundred kinds of chili peppers aren't peppers.
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A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
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A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
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A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
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A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
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A Saudi Arabian women can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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A tenth of the 7 million tons of rice grown in the U.S. each year goes into the making of beer.
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A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
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A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and raisins.
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Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
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Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99.
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Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
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Americans spend $10 million each day on potato chips.
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An average of 13 boxes of jello are purchased every second in the United States.
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As much as 50 gallons of Maple Sap are used to make a single gallon of Maple Sugar.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
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At McDonald's in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
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#20121 - Wed Jan 02 2002 03:22 PM Re: Food and Drink
FallAir Offline
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Registered: Mon Dec 17 2001
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Loc: Denver Colorado USA          
Where do you come up with this stuff Gilly????
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#20122 - Wed Jan 02 2002 11:36 PM Re: Food and Drink
thapanut Offline
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Registered: Fri Nov 30 2001
Posts: 219
Loc: Bangkok, Thailand
A grub, which is ubiquitous in Thailand, can provide daily needs for a person bodily tear and wear.
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