Food Trivia!

In years past, the late night/wee morning hours have been filled with food trivia, random recipes, and occasionally brain fried musings on something food or booze related or other.

I don't see any reason why this year should be any different, so I went looking for some fun food trivia, and learned a few things along the way:

-- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

-- The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl.

-- Potato chips were invented by a North American Indian called George Crum.

-- In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year. (They are merely a conveyance for white-wine with garlic butter sauce.)

-- The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat. (YUM!)

-- There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water. (Ew. I wonder if any of that gets filtered out by the Brita pitcher?)

-- Hot dogs were first created in China. (So my Chicago dog is actually Chinese food? Awesome!)

-- Within 2 hours of standing in daylight, milk loses between half and two-thirds of its vitamin B content. (This is why many milk producers are switching to opaque jugs.)

-- Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite. (Where's the KABOOM?)

-- It has been traditional to serve fish with a slice of lemon since the Middle Ages, when people believed that the fruit's juice would dissolve any bones accidentally swallowed.