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  • The average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation.
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  • Pretzel that have no salt on them are called "baldies."
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  • Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent. The twists of the pretzels are to resemble arms crossed in prayer.
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  • Pikeville, Kentucky consumes the most Pepsi per capita then any other American city.
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  • Heinz first started making ketchup in 1876 and the recipe has remained the same ever since.
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  • The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey.
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  • The average Hostess Twinkie is 68 percent air as measured by volume according to university researchers.
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  • Over 4.5 billion sticks of Trident gum have been chewed. If the stick of gum were laid out end to end they could circle the globe approximately 1.8 times.
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  • Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war.
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  • Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year.
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  • Chocolate contains a very small amount of caffeine. A cup of decaffeinated coffee has approximately the same amount of caffeine as in 50 M&M's.
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  • Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week.
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  • There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world.
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  • In 1942 the Jello company introduced Cola flavored jello, which only lasted a year.
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  • Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA.
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  • One bushel of wheat can make enough sandwiches that you could eat three sandwiches a day for over six months.
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  • Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
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  • During the Easter season, 600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought my Americans. The Marshmallow Peep is the most popular Easter candy besides chocolate.
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  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk.
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  • Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
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  • There are over 600 different pasta shapes.
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  • Pepper was sold as individual grains during the Elizabethan times. The guards at the London docks had to sew up their pockets so they would not steal any of the pepper.
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  • Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name.
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  • In the 13th century, quality standards for paste were assigned by the Pope.
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  • On average, he ratio of yellow kernels to white kernals in a bag of popcorn is 9:1.
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