The "last meal" for Death Row inmates has became embedded in the American death-penalty ritual. Reporters have dutifully recorded the last meal menus: John Wayne Gacy had fried chicken and strawberries; Ted Bundy passed on steak and eggs; James Smith, executed in Texas in 1990, requested a "lump of dirt" (request was denied); Missouri inmate Lloyd Schlup asked for venison and hare (request was granted).
Milk is heavier than cream.
Ice is a food and like any food, it can go "bad." Every food code in the U.S. and Canada defines ice as food. We eat more ice than we do bread, nearly a hundred million tons a year or about two pounds per person per day.
The screw-top cap on most brands of vanilla extract equals one teaspoon. When in a hurry baking something, the cap can be used to measure.
The "rag" in the world of fruit is the white fibrous membrane inside the skin and around the sections of the citrus fruit.
Mint is supposed to be named after an ancient nymph by the name of Minthe, who was the beloved of Pluto.
Ideally, tripe is cooked for 12 hours. As it is difficult to digest, tripe shouldn't be eaten by those who are dyspeptic or goutish.
The Spanish explorers thought pineapple looked like a pine cone, so they called it "pina." The English added "apple" to associate it with juicy delectable fruits. South American Indians had a name for pineapple meaning "fragrant excellent fruit," which became the basis for its botanical name: ananas. The scientific name for pineapple is Ananas Cosmosus.
The muffuletta is an open sandwich that was created by Italian blue-collar workers in the United States in the late 1800s. These Italians, working in the New Orleans markets, placed a mixture of broken green and black olives, found at the bottom of olive barrels, on half a loaf of round Italian bread, commonly called a “muff.” Over this mixture, they layered slices of ham, salami, and Provolone cheese.
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
If all the OREO cookies sold to date were stacked on top of each other, the height of the stack would be equivalent to the height of 9.8 million Sears Towers. The Sears Tower is 1,454 feet tall.
The strongest any liquor can be is 190 proof. This means the beverage is a little more than 97 percent alcohol.
The age recorded on a whiskey bottle refers to the number of years it is aged prior to being bottled. Once in the bottle, whiskey does not improve.
More than 1,130,000 packages of Jell-O gelatin are purchased or eaten every day.
If every OREO cookie eaten in a given year were dunked, cows would have to work overtime to produce the extra 42.2 million gallons of milk needed to accommodate the extra dunkers.
The Swedes drink more coffee than any other people in the world.
The ancient city of Attica was famous for its luscious figs, and they became an obsession for its citizens, rich or poor. Solon, the ruler of Attica (639-559 B.C.), made it illegal to export figs out of Greece, making sure there were plenty for his subjects.
More than one-fourth of U.S. households consume turkey deli meat at least once every two weeks.
If every OREO cookie ever made were stacked on top of each other (over 362 billion), the pile would reach the moon and back more than five times. If placed side-by-side they would encircle the earth 381 times at the equator!
The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an onion with beer foam as a way of warding off death.
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