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- Bubble gum contains rubber. -KH
- Five Jell-o flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, chocolate. -WP
- The Heinz 14-oz. catsup bottle is unchanged for 56 years. -DN
- Coca-Cola was 5 cents a bottle for 70 years. -DN
- The Tabasco Sauce red bottle has been the same for 134 years. -DN
- 1260 Oreo cookies are produced every minute. -DN
- At the Coca-Cola plant, they produce 2000 cans a minute. -DN
- The average person eats 20,000 M&M's in a lifetime. -DN
- The average person eats 87 hot dogs a year. -DN
- The average person eats 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. -DN
- The average person drinks 70,000 cups of coffee in a lifetime. -DN
- The average person eats at McDonald's 1811 times in a lifetime. -DN
- 96% of all Americans will eat at McDonald's this year. -DN
- Over Easter holiday, 26.7 million chocolate bunnies are made. -CS
- Coca-Cola was originally green. -AN
- In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from
every salad served first class. -AN
- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. -AN
- Pez's least known flavor is coffee. -AN
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them look
like it's kissing the conveyer belt. -AN
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. -JH
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplany is grown in New Jersey. -JH
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. -JH
- The crunch of a dill pickle can be heard exactly 22 feet away. -CS
- In Siberia, they sell milk frozen on a stick. When they need to use it,
they melt off what they need. -SF
- SPAM is the world's most popular food. -KS
- Cats can't taste sweet food. -AN
- It takes about 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg. -AN
- The world's largest herb is the banana. -KH
- It takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of natural cheese. -KW
- It takes over 1200 peanuts to make a 28-oz. jar of peanut butter. -KW
- By the time the average person has graduated from high school, he has eaten
1500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. -KW
- The Bible never says what fruit Adam and Eve ate that got them kicked out
of the Garden of Eden. -KS
- Potatoes are more genetically complex than humans. -CS
- During a lifetime, the average person eats about 35 tons of food. -AN
- In Tokyo, there is a restaurant for dogs. -AN
- Almonds are members of the peach family. -CS
- The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. -CS
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Last modified: 19 Aug 1998