Food and Drink Bizzare Facts

• The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
  
  
• Dennys double decker burger contains 1247 calories plus 80 grams of fat!
  
  
• Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
  
  
• The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it.
  
  
• In a typical restaurant, customers receive 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend.
  
  
• The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola
  
  
• Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged dinners than any nationality in the world.
  
  
• Chop suey is not a Chinese dish, but was invented in America by Chinese cooks.
  
  
• The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
  
  
• Many high school cafeterias in Europe serve alcohol to their students who choose to drink.

• The average American visits a fast food restaurant six times a month
  
  
• The custom of giving teachers apples originated when public school teachers were paid with whatever the community could afford, often in food or goods.
  
  
• Coffee creamer is extremely flammable.
  
  
• For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
  
  
• Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. There, Fresca is slang for lesbian.
  
  
• The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.
  
  
• "Food & Wine" magazine reported that in Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza.
  
  
• Five hundred and fifty (550) hot dogs are eaten every second of the day in the United States
  
  
• It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
  
  
• Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts

• Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
  
  
• 26% of all McDonald's employees in Ontario, Canada admit to putting some type of bodily fluid in McDonald's food.
  
  
• Americans are eating 113 million cans of SPAM a year!
  
  
• The average American consumes close to 24 gallons of beer per year.
  
  
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
  
  
• Frank Epperson accidentally invented the Popsicle at the age of 11. It wasn’t till some years later that he started a business to sell the Popsicles.
  
  
• Since World War II, American soldiers have been issued gum with their K rations and survival kits.
  
  
• The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.
  
  
• The Popsicle was invented by 11-year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left a container of soda and a stirrer outside overnight, and in the morning discovered them frozen together.
  
  
• Americans use more Tabasco sauce than any other country.