Funny Food For Thought

• Food for Thought
• Chocolate Car!
• Twenty Funny Food Facts
• Some Bizarre Eating Records
• Funny Food Facts

Can't eat beef........mad cow. Can't eat chicken...... bird flu! Can't eat eggs...... again, bird flu? Can't eat pork.....fears that bird flu will infect piggies. See our strange egg tattoo. Can't eat fish....... mercury in the waters has poisoned the meat Can't eat fruits and veggies....... insecticides and herbicides Hmmmm! I believe that leaves Chocolate! Take our chocolate test

Talking of Chocolate - How About a Chocolate Car?

Here is an even more amazing chocolate car.

More Funny Food For Thought - Bacon Coated Chocolate

We are unsure whether this is a joke or not: fried bacon dipped in chocolate. 'Joke,' says Guy. 'Yummy,' says Will.

Twenty Funny Food Facts - To Give You Fodder For Thought

1. Apple is made of 25% air, that is why they float.
2. Apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste? Why not try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.
3. Avocado has the highest protein and oil content of all fruits.
4. Cabbage is 91% water.
5. Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
6. Celery requires more calories to eat and digest than it contains.
7. Cherries are a member of the rose family.
8. Corn always has an even number of ears.
9. Corn makes up about 8% of the weight in a box of corn flakes.
10. Eggplants [aubergine] are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.
11. Honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad.
12. Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
13. Orange does not rhyme with any other word.
14. Peanuts are legumes [vegetables] and not a tree nut.
15. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
16. Pear is a fruit that ripens from the inside out.
17. Strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.
18. American's eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year.
19. Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.
20. It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese.

Did you know that during a lifetime the average person eats about 35 tonnes of food.

Amazing Apple

A Golden Delicious apple split perfectly down the middle into red and green is the talk of the town in Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England. People have been queuing up to take pictures of the rarity grown by Ken Morrish. "It's absolutely phenomenal," said the 72-year-old.

Monet Cake

Water Lilies is one of Monet's most famous paintings. This version, by AJ's Moonlight Cakes, is truly delicious and re-creates the painting in artfully applied icing. Photo via AJ's Moonlight Cakes

Further Food For Thought

Some Bizarre Eating Records

• 432 [36 dozen]: number of oysters eaten in 10 minutes by Sonya Thomas
• 53.5: number of hot dogs and buns eaten in 12 minutes by Takeru Kobayashi
• 38: number of lobsters eaten in 12 minutes by Sonya Thomas
• 8.02: amount in kilograms [17.7 pounds] of cow brains eaten in 15 minutes by Takeru Kobayashi
• 5.22: amount in kilograms [11.5 pounds] of watermelon eaten in 15 minutes by Richard LeFevre
• 4.99: amount in kilograms [11 pounds] of cheesecake eaten in 9 minutes by Sonya Thomas
• 2.95: amount in kilograms [6.5 pounds] of cabbage eaten in 9 minutes by Charles Hardy

Did You Know? - Funny Food Facts

Surprise your guests with this knowledge:

1. Onions, asparagus, daffodils, yams, hyacinths, garlic, leeks, tulips, chives and the Joshua tree of California [which can grow to be 40 feet tall] are all types of lily.
2. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, plums, apples and pears are all kinds of rose.
3. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
4. The United Kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
5. There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
6. Within two hours of standing in daylight, milk loses between half and two-thirds of its vitamin B content.
7. The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
8. There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water.
9. The estimated number of M and M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
10. Apparently Spain has a wider range of foods flavoured with almonds than any other country in the world.

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