Food and Drink

Bizarre Fact #311:
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Ovaltine, the drink was from milk, malt, egg and cocoa, was developed in 1904 in Berne, Switzerland. It was originally named Ovomaltine. A clerical error changed it when the manufacturer registered the name.

Bizarre Fact #312:
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Over 15 billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes.

Bizarre Fact #313:
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Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.

Bizarre Fact #314:
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Pigturducken is a pig, stuffed with a turkey, which is stuffed with a chicken, deep fried in oil, which is usually put into something similar to a horse trough over propane burners.

Bizarre Fact #315:
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Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.

Bizarre Fact #316:
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Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.

Bizarre Fact #317:
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Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.

Bizarre Fact #318:
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Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.

Bizarre Fact #319:
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Sometimes vanilla ice cream looks as if it has bits of chocolate in it, as if only that could make the flavor acceptable. What are those dark specks, anyway? If you thought they might be parts of vanilla beans, you're right. But they're only the flavorless residue of the bean. Companies put them in just for show, to prove that they used real beans and not artificial flavor.

Bizarre Fact #320:
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South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, better known as "The Cornbread Capitol of the World," has an old ordinance pertaining to the cooking of this southern staple. The law declares: "Cornbread isn't cornbread unless it be made correctly. Therefore, all cornbread must be hereby made in nothing other then a cast iron skillet." Those found in violation of this ordinance are to be fined one dollar.