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  • Bird's Nest Soup is an Asian delicacy made from real bird's nests. In China, a prized food is the soup made from the Asian swift's nest.
  • For special occasions, the Bedouin tribes of Africa stuff a fish with eggs and put it inside a chicken. The chicken is put inside a sheep, and the sheep is put inside a camel and roasted.
  • An ear of corn never has an odd number of rows.
  • There are fewer calories in ostrich and emu meats than there are in pork, beef, deer and other types of poultry.
  • A hard boiled egg spins but a soft cooked or raw egg does not.
  • The largest turkey in the world weighed in at 86 pounds. It was raised by Leacroft Turkeys, Ltd. in Petersborough, United Kingdom.
  • According to the Texas Peanut Producers Board, Americans eat enough peanut butter each year to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon. In a day, Americans eat more than 4 million pounds of peanuts.
  • The International Ice Cream Association reports that in the average household, 66% of the ice cream is eaten by adults.
  • Chocolate can be lethal to dogs. About 2 ounces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a ten pound puppy because it affects the cardiac muscle and central nervous system.
  • Nabisco uses 37 million pounds of chocolates in their "Chips Ahoy" cookies every year.
  • The first chocolate chip cookie was made in 1937 in an old country inn in Massachussets by mixing bits of chocolate with shortbread dough.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt ate 3 chocolate covered garlic balls every morning to improve her memory.
  • The first space shuttle astronauts chose to include M&M candies in their food supply. They are now displayed in the space food exhibit at the "National Air & Space Museum" in Washington DC.
  • In Japan, on 14th February Valentine's Day, women give their men a box of chocolates. The men reciprocate one month later on 14th March and it is called "White Day".
  • The exquisite "Godiva" chocolates were introduced to the US in 1966.
  • Godiva's bestseller is the "Open Oyster". It is a molded chocolate shell filled with Hazelnut praline.
  • The color 'tan' was replaced by the color 'violet' in M&M's plain chocolate candies in 1950.
  • In the Middle Ages, Cumin was regarded as a symbol of faithfulness. In Germany a bride and groom would carry a little of the seed to represent their commitment to being faithful.
  • Mozzarella Cheese was first made in the 7th Century from the milk of the Indian Water Buffalo.
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