Fast Facts
February 21, 2006
Forty percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.
Wade Morrison, the inventor of Dr Pepper, named the soft drink after Dr. Charles Pepper, who had given him his first job.
To make an espresso, 42 coffee beans are needed.
Battle Creek, Mich. is referred to as the “”cereal bowl of America.”” The city produces more breakfast cereals than any other city in the world.
A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle.
Chocolate chip cookies were invented in the 1930s by Ruth Wakefield. The cookies were invented in an inn near Whitman, Mass., run by Wakefield and her husband.
Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare more than 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers.
Pomology is the science of growing an apple.
After the “”Popeye”” comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the United States.
In the United States, ice cream is sold the most on Sunday.
On average, Americans eat 100 acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about 350 slices per second.
Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed.
Consuming chocolate was considered a sin during the 16th and 17th centuries. During that time, it was provided in the form of a drink and because drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate.
