2. The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl
3. Half of the world's population live on a staple diet of rice
4. Potato crisps were invented by a North American Indian called George Crum
5. During a lifetime the average person eats about 35 tonnes of food
6. Ice Cream Is Chinese Food! When the famous explorer Marco Polo returned to his homeland of Italy, from China in 1295, he brought back a recipe (among other things). The recipe, was a Chinese recipe for a desert called "Milk Ice." However, Europeans substituted cream for the milk, and voila..."Ice Cream." Ice cream has been a hit ever since!
7. The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology
8. In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year
9. The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat
10. There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water
11. The Word "Salary" Comes From "Salt!" Salt, our oldest preservative, was extremely rare in the past. So rare, in fact, that it was often used as pay. Imagine...earning a couple of tablespoons of salt for a hard-days work. Today, salt is so common that restaurants give it away for free, and packaged food contains so much that it's far too easy to eat too much salt (salt is also known as "sodium").
12. Cream is lighter than milk
13. Over 1,000 litres of beer are drunk in the House of Commons each week
