FOOD FACTS

FOOD FACTS

A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by itself in one day!

Why onions make us cry?

Cutting onions releases a gas which causes a stinging sensation

when it comes into contact with your eyes. Your body produces

tears to dilute the irritant and remove it from your eyes.

How can you avoid it?

Fried tarantulas, Cambodia

They were first discovered by starving Cambodians in the

bloody, brutal days of the Khmer Rouge rule and have

gone from being the vital sustenance of these people to a delicacy tourists come far

and wide to try.

Not all the apples are like these:

Look these ones!

Rose apple (South Asia):

It smells and tastes a lot like roses.

Sugar Apple (Noi-na)

(Thailand)

Why carbonated beverages are called “soft drinks” ?

It was referred to all beverages that did not contain significant amounts of alcohol

(hard drinks).

Funny experiment with a soft drink:

Carrots used to be purple before the 17th century.

Eskimo ice cream (akutaq) from Alaska

is neither icy, or creamy !

AKUTAQ RECIPEIngredients

•1 large whitefish•Vegetable Shortening

•Sugar•Berries (blue or blackberries)

Boil whitefish until done, Debone all fish and squeeze all liquid from fish so it's dry and fluffy, Then add the shortening and stir it in well. Then

add sugar to taste. Add berries, Keep cool or freeze.

Only food that does not spoil:

honey !!!

“Sugar, ahhhhoney honey

you are my candy girl 

and you got me wanting you.”