A potpourri of Fun Food Facts…

Because trivial facts and information can be a great addition to any conversation, here’s some frivolous knowledge that will certainly impress your friends:

• The ancient Romans often paid their taxes in honey.
• Pound cake received its name from the one-pound quantities of the main ingredients — sugar, butter, eggs, and flour — used in the original recipe.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• The largest fruit crop on earth is grapes — followed by bananas.
• Pepper is the top-selling spice in the world. The second is mustard.
• In 1867, Napoleon III commanded chemists to produce a special kind of food for the army and navy. It was margarine.
• A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.
• It takes seventy-five thousand crocus flowers to produce one pound of saffron — which is why it is the most expensive spice in the world.
• Wild rice is not rice but a coarse annual grass that grows in shallow water or marshland.

-from The Ultimate Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham & The Useless Information Society