More Food Facts
November 2nd, 2005· There are 900,000 poppy seeds in every pound.
· People in the US ate 65 quarts of popcorn each in 2004.
· The word “pop” has been used to describe soda since 1812. Why? Because the cork always popped when it was removed.
· Each year Campbells sells over 100 million cans of pork and beans.
· Porterhouse steak was first served at a “porter house” (coach stop) in New York State in 1814. When the steak became a regular menu item, it was given the name. It was Mark Twain’s favorite mean when served with peas and mushrooms.
· The first powdered milk was used in the late 13th century, as reported by the explorer Marco Polo. He noted in his journal that nomadic Tarters made it by boiling mare’s milk, skimming off the cream and drying it in the sun. When they wanted to use it, they just added water.
· If you need confectioner’s sugar and are all out, place granulated sugar and a couple of teaspoons of cornstarch in a blender. Presto! Homemade confectioner’s sugar.
· Prairie oysters are the testicles of sheep and bulls that are breaded, cooked and eaten as a delicacy.
· Puffed rice was introduced in 1904 at the World’s Fair in St. Louis.
· Pottage, as described in the Bible’s book of Genesis is lentil soup.
by Mary M. Alward
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:52 pm
If you need confectioner’s sugar and are all out, place granulated sugar and a couple of teaspoons of cornstarch in a blender. Presto! Homemade confectioner’s sugar.
Wish I’d known about this the day of my son’s birthday party. I went to ice his cake and found out I didn’t have any confectioner’s sugar. I made a mad dash to the store.
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:10 am
I often wondered why people in Canada call it pop while people in the US call it soda. Now I know. I certainly enjoyed these facts.
November 3rd, 2005 at 11:36 pm
It’s nice to find out how to make confectioner’s sugar. I wouldn’t want to know anything more about prairie oysters, nor would I want to eat them. Yuck! They probably are delicious, but I’m not about to find out.
November 5th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
I found the trivia on Campbell’s pork and beans interesting. I think that this is a staple for many families that don’t have a lot of money to spend on food. I know when my Dad died when I was about 10 that Mom fed us a lot of pork and beans with bread. Sometimes she would put margarine on the bread and that was a real treat. We also ate a lot of fried potatoes and pork and beans. She used to make us fried potato and pork and bean sandwiches.
This is another very interesting thing. We also drank a lot of powdered milk. I hated the stuff but to get regular milk was a real treat for us when we were kids. Today I still enjoy a cold glass of 2% milk, but won’t touch powdered milk.
Interesting. What about an article on the potato famine in Ireland. That would be interesting, or if not an article, maybe a little trivia?
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:27 am
In england some people call all those fizzy drinks ‘pop’ but some don’t most just call it by there proper name e.g coke or sprite or something liek that. I mean soda? i dont get why they call it soda at all.
matthew
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