one million

[Cheyanne]

12250

# West Okoboji is the deepest natural lake in the state. Its depth is 136 feet.

[Cheyanne]

12251

# Imes Bridge is the oldest of Madison County's six bridges. (I believe that this bridge was burned down by arsonists tho :( )

[Cheyanne]

12252

# Iowa's longest and highest bridge crosses Lake Red Rock.

[Cheyanne]

12253

# Elk Horn, Iowa is the largest Danish settlement in the United States.

[Cheyanne]

12254

# At 16 miles, East Okoboji is the longest natural lake in the state.

[Cheyanne]

12255

# Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River.

[Cheyanne]

12256

# The state's lowest elevation point (at 480 feet) is in Lee County.

[Cheyanne]

12257

# The Holliwell Bridge is the longest bridge in Madison County.

[Cheyanne]

12258

# Francis Drake was 66 years old at his inauguration and Iowa's oldest governor.

[Cheyanne]

12259

# Iowa's oldest continually running theater is in Story City.

[Cheyanne]

12260

# The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art houses the largest collection of Grant Wood artwork.

[Cheyanne]

12261

# Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque is the world's steepest and shortest railway.

[Cheyanne]

12262

# Wright County has the highest percentage of grade-A topsoil in the nation.

[Cheyanne]

12263

# Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world.

[Cheyanne]

12264

# The Saint Francis Xavier Basilica in Dyersville is the only basilica in the United States situated outside a major metropolitan area.

[Cheyanne]

12265

# Clarion is the only county seat in the exact center of the county.

[Cheyanne]

12266

# Dubuque is home to the only county courthouse with a gold dome

[Cheyanne]

12267

# Cornell College is the only school in the nation to have its entire campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[Cheyanne]

12268

# The Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City honors the only man to die during the Lewis and Clark expedition.

[Cheyanne]

12269

# Maynard Reece is the only artist to win the Federal Duck Stamp competition five times.

[Cheyanne]

12270

# A bronze life-sized sculpture of a Norwegian immigrant family (circa 1860) is located on a six acre restored prairie site located at the east entry to Lake Mills on Highway 105.

[Cheyanne]

12271

# Iowa's only operating antique carousel is located in the city of Story City.

[Cheyanne]

12272

# Knoxville's National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum is the only museum in the country dedicated to preserving the history of sprint car racing.

[Cheyanne]

12273

# Iowa's only fire tower is situated in Yellow River State Forest.

[Cheyanne]

12274

# Sabula is Iowa's only town on an island. (I have no idea where this is at :( )

[Cheyanne]

12275

# Herbert Hoover, a West Branch native, was the 31st president of the United States and the first one born west of the Mississippi.

[Cheyanne]

12276

# Mamie Doud Eisenhower's birthplace is located in Boone and includes a restored frame house, complete with summer kitchen and original furniture from the family.

[Cheyanne]

12277

# Van Meter is the hometown of baseball's Bob Feller, an Iowa farm boy who went on to greatness with the Cleveland Indians during the Golden Age of baseball.

[Cheyanne]

12278

# Born Donnabelle Mullenger in Denison, Oscar Award-winning actress, Donna Reed, started her career at the young age of 16.

[Cheyanne]

12279

# Born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, John Wayne was the son of a pharmacist and grew up to become one of Hollywood's most popular movie stars.

[Cheyanne]

12280

# Meredith Willson, who played with the famous John Philip Sousa and the New York Philharmonic before launching his career as a famous composer and lyricist, is a Mason City native.

[Cheyanne]

12281

# Glenn Miller, noted trombonist and orchestra leader, was born in Clarinda located in Southwest Iowa

[Cheyanne]

12282

# The town of Fort Atkinson was the site of the only fort ever built by the U.S. government to protect one Indian tribe from another.

[Cheyanne]

12283

# Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County. They're called Winnebago's.

[Cheyanne]

12284

# Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water.
Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

[Cheyanne]

12285

# The highest double track railroad bridge in the world, the Kate Shelley Bridge, is located at Boone.

[Cheyanne]

12286

# Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels.

[Cheyanne]

12287

# The famous actor John Wayne was born in Winterset on May 26, 1907.

[Cheyanne]

12288

# Iowa State University is the oldest land grant college in the U.S.A

[Cheyanne]

12289

# Decorah hosts Nordic Fest a three-day celebration of Decorah's Scandinavian heritage.

[Cheyanne]

12290

# The National Balloon Museum in Indianola chronicles more than 200 years of ballooning history.

[Cheyanne]

12291

# Sheldon High School Summer Theatre, the only high school repertory in Iowa and one of just a few in the nation presents a different play for each week in June and July.

[Cheyanne]

12292

Cary Grant died November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa after suffering a stroke before performing his one-man show "An Evening With Cary Grant" at the Adler Theater.

[Cheyanne]

12293

Don Ameche is buried in an unmarked grave in Dubuque, Iowa.

[Cheyanne]

12294

U.S. Senators from Iowa, Charles Grassley and Tom Harkin have both appeared as themselves in major motion pictures.

[Cheyanne]

12295

Musician Buddy Holly died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959

[Cheyanne]

12296

Alex Carras, of TV's Webster, played football for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and was on the 1956 Rose Bowl championship team.

[Cheyanne]

12297

Ashton Kutcher was an engineering student at the University of Iowa before dropping out to pursue a career in modeling.

(And now he is Demi Moore's beau - and she makes fun of skip's shirt)

[Cheyanne]

12298

James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum attended the Univesity of Iowa

[Cheyanne]

12299

Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in Newton, Iowa.

[Cheyanne]

12300

Gene Wilder received a B.A. from the University of Iowa.

[Cheyanne]

12301

Well, that is enough for now from the great state of Iowa.. :D

[Cheyanne]

12302

How about Haunted Places in Iowa???

American Theater, Cherokee.

Many of the employees think the theater is haunted by Mr. Goldie, a previous owner. One even recounts being in an empty theater and seeing one of the chairs in the upper front rows rocking back and forth.

[Cheyanne]

12303

Brucemore Historic Site, Cedar Rapids.

As printed in local paper.......

"The Brucemore Historic Site is a three-storie Victorian mansion. It is said that a glowing entity is sometimes seen in the library and small items (ie. lamps) in this room will sometimes move on their own. A reliable witness told me personally that he had seen the blinds in another room open on their own. As for myself, personally, I have been in this house alone. At that time I did not believe the stories that the house was haunted, but as I was walking through the great hall (adjacent to the library), I suddenly got the feeling that the whole room had began "breathing" around me, that's the only way I can find to describe the feeling in the room. I got out fast!"

[Cheyanne]

12304

Buchanan County Courthouse, Independence, Iowa

The Buchanan County Courthouse of Independence, Iowa is reported to be haunted by a ghost by the name of "Harold". The real life "Harold" was a police officer who was murdered during an escape attempt from the Jail years ago. "Harold" is mischeivous in nature such as moving furniture, tilting pictures, unplugging electrical cords, flushing toilets, moving books and other items, opening and closing doors. He is very commonly known to the courthouse, law enforcement and jail employee's."

[Cheyanne]

12305

Carlos O'Kelly's, Marion.

The first COK opened its doors in Marion, Iowa, a northern suburb of Cedar Rapids, in Dec. 1981. The staff doesn't really know who haunts this location, but blenders that are unplugged will go off, lights flicker, and plates will toss themselves off the racks.

[Cheyanne]

12306

Country Kitchen, Iowa City.

"Country Kitchen on Highway 6 is supposedly haunted. I think there's a history; I know someone who worked there. They've reported the radio on their speaker changes dials when they're closed up and taking breaks in the Lobby."

[Cheyanne]

12307

Willow of the Whisps, Van Buren Co. White Elm Iowa. This was the property of my grandfather, the homestead where he grew up. I remember the story that he would tell that after dark when they needed to water the horses at the well, that a ghostly blue ball of light or fire -- the willow of the whisps is what he called it -- would come out of the barn and follow a path down the to the well. The ball of fire would always take the same path going directly down into the well and it would scare the horses. I don't know if it was Fox Fire or not but it was very spooky. It scared everyone in the area and everyone spoke about it. It never hurt anyone but was more of a nuisance for him and the horses.

[Cheyanne]

12308

Indian Ghost Girl, same area Van Buren Co. White Elm Iowa. The story goes that during the days of horse and buggy that there would be a Indian maiden that would step out in front of the horses and stop them. The specter was said to be a whispy white image that flowed across the road the horses would stop and let it pass. The eerie part of the story was that not only did the people see the image but the horses, as well. All of the older people of the area would tell of this story.

[Cheyanne]

12309

Haunted Home, near the same area but across the county line into Davis County. There is a big two story house were family friends live. They tell about there house being haunted. They tell of a teenage girl who roams the house on a regular basis. It has been confirmed that she was a teenage who died of pneumonia. She has appeared in a mirror behind the son while he was brushing his teeth. She has also been known to touch the people while they are sleeping. Also she has been known to play pranks by moving objects and hiding things, such as reading glasses and glasses of water. After that family moved out another family moved in and experienced the same phenomenon. One individual who has lived there was so scared and had called for us to come get her because her mother was at work. When we went to pick her up she was sitting on the front steps too afraid to tell what she had seen only that there was something in there and she was too afraid to go back in.

[Cheyanne]

12310

Old Home, Davis County near Floris Bethlehem Church. There was, up until a few months ago, a house next to the church which was said to be haunted. This was a evil spirit that forced the inhabitants to spent the last three nights of their residency under their security light in the front yard until they could move to a new house. It was said that the evil spirit chased their small child down the flight of stairs where upon the landing there is a second story window. The child out of fear fled down the stairs and went through the window. She received a broken arm from this encounter. At a later time the same specter chased the family out of the house and would not allow them back inside. There were said to be noises through out the house, every time that they tried to enter the specter would pound back on the door in response, thus resulting in the abandonment of their property and the residency under the security light. I met with the owner of the house who inquired about moving the house. It was from him that I learned of this haunting. While I was inspecting the property I had the feeling that there was something watching, an eerie feeling throughout place. I declined the offer to move the house. The house was then burned a short time later by the owner.

[Cheyanne]

12311

Godfather's Pizza, Story City.
1625 E. Broad

The following personal account was sent in by Alan, "These occurances took place at Godfathers Pizza in Story City. I worked there 1993 to 1995. I was the daytime kitchen manager. Strange happenings: Lights being turned off and on in the restroom when nobody was in there. Mops and brooms being knocked over. I would set them up again, and the second I turned around they would go down again. I would even prop them back up so they couldn't fall over on their own. At least once furniture got moved. And in the kitchen I found cold spots. These would show up near the pizza oven as it was going full blast. There weren't any drafts in the kitchen. And for me the biggest occurance was when I saw the ghost. I was putting pizzas in a holding cooler when I saw the reflection of a man in the glass door. I watched it for about 10 to 15 seconds. When I turned around he was gone. He looked to be in his early to mid 40's. We was wearing a short sleeved dress type shirt and tie. I noticed that from the waist down he was a foggy blur. There were only two of us in the store at the time. I turned around to see if the gentleman needed any help, when I realized that both doors to the resturant were locked. This location used to be a truck stop and cafe. After this sighting I was talking to a lady who used to be a waitress there in the 1970's. She told me that a salesman came in off the interstate and went into the restroom. He didn't come out. He had a heartattack and died."

[Cheyanne]

12312

Grand Opera House, Dubuque.

The Grand Opera House is the oldest theater in Dubuque, Iowa. It was built in 1889-1890 at an estimated cost of $65,000. Done in the Richardsonian architectural style, the original facade consists of St. Louis brick facing with Bayfield red sandstone trim. As you can imagine, many patrons spent happy hours here, so it's no wonder they don't want to leave. Disembodied footsteps and voices can be heard and apparitions have been spotted.

[Cheyanne]

12313

Granger House, Marion.

The Grand Opera House is the oldest theater in Dubuque, Iowa. It was built in 1889-1890 at an estimated cost of $65,000. Done in the Richardsonian architectural style, the original facade consists of St. Louis brick facing with Bayfield red sandstone trim. As you can imagine, many patrons spent happy hours here, so it's no wonder they don't want to leave. Disembodied footsteps and voices can be heard and apparitions have been spotted.

[Cheyanne]

12314

Great Midwestern Ice Cream Company, Iowa City.
126 E. Washington.

Kerri writes, "There are several places in Iowa city that should be of great interest to Ghost hunters. Once the location of a brothel when Iowa City was nothing but a settlement town, the second floor of "Great Mid" has been known to creep people out from time to time. In early 1997, a young woman who worked the closing shift had just finished upturning the chairs on the tables so she could properly sweep and polish the floor when she heard a knocking at the front door downstairs. She answered the door to a friend who had come to invite her to a party. The girls' conversation was suddenly interrupted by the sounds of scraping and thumping from upstairs. Knowing she was the only one there, she took her friend to investigate. When the girls found their way to the second floor, they discovered that all the chairs had been piled in the center of the room."

[Cheyanne]

12315

North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City.

A visitor writes, "In 1985 when attending college at NIACC on floor B2, I awoke to a strange feeling. I turned my head to see a man standing in the middle of the room staring directly at me. Since I was sleeping, I needed to rub my eyes and shake my head a bit to make sure I was not still dreaming. As I turned an looked in the direction again, the man was still there. Again, I shook my head but he continued. At that point I closed my eyes and started to scream and my roommate woke up. When I opened my eyes, he was gone. We verified that the doors and windows were locked and closed so there was no way anyone could have gotten in. I told a few people about my experience so we decided to hold a séance. We would get a few answers but the strange thing was when we asked where it was. When the question was asked, two guy's eyes would start watering so bad they looked like they were crying. When a different question was asked it would stop. We tried this three times with the same result at which point the two decided they no longer wanted to be part of the séance. There was a story about a college freshman who was dared to swim across the lake and drowned. Not sure if this is related but is was strange nonetheless."

[Cheyanne]

12316

Well I sufficiently scared myself silly with these... so that is it.. :eek:

[Cheyanne]

12317

How about a little chocolate trivia?

Q - What percentage of Americans have some chocolate most every day of their life?

A - 90%

[Cheyanne]

12318

Q - How many tons of chocolate is consumed in the world each year?
A - 600,000

[Cheyanne]

12319

Q - How many pounds of chocolate did the average person eat in the year 1995?
A - 11.5 pounds

[Cheyanne]

12320

A - What fraction of chocolate is fat?
Q - 1/2

[Cheyanne]

12321

Q - How many minutes does it take to make an oreo cookie?

A - 90 minutes

[Cheyanne]

12322

Q - How many oreos are consumed in the world in one day?

A - 20.5 million

[Cheyanne]

12323

Q - How many cows does it take to provide enough milk for one day's production of Hershey's chocolate at the Hershey, Pennsylvania plant?

A - 52,000

[Cheyanne]

12324

Q - How many Hershey's Kisses are found in one pound?
A - 96

[Cheyanne]

12325

Q - How many calories in one Dove miniature?

A - 35 calories

[Cheyanne]

12326

Q - How many Hershey Kisses are produced in one day in Hershey, Pennsylvania?

A - 33 million

[Cheyanne]

12327

On his fourth voyage to the New World, in 1502, Christopher Columbus was the first European to taste chocolate.

[Cheyanne]

12328

Americans eat about 10 pounds of chocolate a year per capita. The Swiss eat 22 pounds per year.

[Cheyanne]

12329

In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the treetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.

[Cheyanne]

12330

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

[Cheyanne]

12331

Chocolate in a blue wrapper won't sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong because the Chinese associate blue with death.

[Cheyanne]

12332

Casanova, fond of chocolate's divine properties, considered it an elixer of love.

[Cheyanne]

12333

Queen Victoria was such a devotee that she sent five-hundred-thousand pounds
of chocolate to her troops one Christmas.

[Cheyanne]

12334

Chocolate's scientific name, Theobroma, means food of the gods.

[Cheyanne]

12335

Montezuma, the last Aztec ruler, personally consumed some fifty "pitchers"
of chocolate drink each day and had two thousand "pitchers" prepared
for members of his household.

[Cheyanne]

12336

Chocolate's History

1527
Conquistadors bring chocolate home to Spain.

[Cheyanne]

12337

1580
Beverages made with cocoa become popular in Spain.

[Cheyanne]

12338

1615
Italians are introduced to drinking chocolate, thanks to chocolate paste brought from the Spanish New World.

[Cheyanne]

12339

1657
London's first chocolate shop opens for business. Until now, only the noble class has been able to experience chocolate drinks.

[Cheyanne]

12340

1659
Cocoa finds its way to France via the Spanish ship "Maria Theresa". Local physicians applaud its properties, and rumors of it's aphrodisiac qualities begin.

[Cheyanne]

12341

1765
Chocolate is first manufactured in the United States.

[Cheyanne]

12342

1819
Francois-Louis Cailler introduces the world's first commercially-made eating chocolate. It is sold in blocks.

[Cheyanne]

12343

1824
John Cadbury opens a tea and coffee shop in Birmingham, England. With funding from his father for his business ventures, he begins experimenting with grinding cocoa beans with mortar and pestle.

[Cheyanne]

12344

1828
Conrad J. Van Houten obtains a patent for his method of removing the fat from roasted cacao beans. He adds this fat (not yet called cocoa butter) to a mixture of cocoa powder and sugar, creating the first chocolate candy.

[Cheyanne]

12345

1847
The Cadbury Brothers (John and Benjamin) form a partnership. John Cadbury's earlier experiments with roasting and grinding cocoa beans have resulted in sweetened chocolate powder, cocoa powder, and eating chocolate which he has been selling in France.

[Cheyanne]

12346

1849
Domingo Ghirardelli moved from Latin America to San Francisco, and initially made his living selling supplies to miners with gold rush fever. But he had seen cacao growing in Guatemala, and was soon inspired to start a chocolate factory.

[Cheyanne]

12347

1866
Cadbury's Cocoa Essence becomes the first pure cocoa to be sold in Britain. Richard and George Cadbury perfect a method of completely removing all traces of cocoa butter for the first time.

[Cheyanne]

12348

1875
Milk chocolate is invented in Vevey, Switzerland when sweetened condensed milk and chocolate are mixed together by the Nestle Company.

[Cheyanne]

12349

1893
36 year-old Milton Snavely Hershey goes to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. There he sees chocolate manufacturing machinery demonstrated. He purchases his own equipment, and begins experimenting with it in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

[Cheyanne]

12350

1894
The Hershey Chocolate Company is founded by Milton Hershey. He already has a caramel business, and considers this new venture only a sideline.

[Cheyanne]

12351

1900
Milton Hershey sells his caramel company in favor of focusing on his chocolate manufacturing plant. This year the first milk chocolate "Hershey Bars" were produced.

[Cheyanne]

12352

1903
13 miles from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in a small town called Derry Church, Milton Hershey builds a chocolate factory. He also builds homes to house his workers, as well as a street railway to make the connections needed to get his product out to the consumers. "Chocolate Avenue" and "Cocoa Avenue" are two new streets in the little town, which will soon be re-named Hershey, Pennsylvania.

[Cheyanne]

12353

1920
The Good Humor bar is created by Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio.

The Baby Ruth is created by the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago. It was named after President Cleveland's daughter.

[Cheyanne]

12354

1921
Peter Paul Company makes the Mounds bar from a formula created by a chemist, George Shamlian.

[Cheyanne]

12355

1923
The Butterfinger is introduced, the creation of the Curtiss Candy Company of Chicago. As a publicity stunt, Otto Schnering, the creator of the candy bar, drops Butterfingers and Baby Ruths from airplanes over 40 cities, pushing the popularity of both treats to new heights.

Frank C. Mars develops the Milky Way candy bar in Minneapolis/St. Paul. In one year, sales of the new candy go from $72,800 to $792,000.

[Cheyanne]

12356

1925
The New York Cocoa Exchange is created by merchants, importers and brokers.

[Cheyanne]

12357

1930
Mars, Inc. creates the Snickers bar.

[Cheyanne]

12358

1932
Mars, Inc. introduces the 3 Musketeers bar. It sells for a nickel.

[Cheyanne]

12359

1940
A candy-coated chocolate is created especially for the United States military forces by Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie at Mars, Inc. Their initials lead to the name "M & M".

[Cheyanne]

12360

1947
Peter Paul introduces the Almond Joy bar as a companion to the Mounds bar.

[Cheyanne]

12361

Coca-Cola Trivia....

John Styth Pemberton, the Atlanta pharmacist who created Coca-Cola, sold a 2/3 interest in his company in 1887 for $283.29. Asa G. Candler another Atlanta pharmacist later bought the formula for $2,300, and when he in turn sold the company in 1919, it was worth $25 million.

[Cheyanne]

12362

Coca Cola was invented by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886. It was originally formulated with extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts. That's where the name comes from.

[Cheyanne]

12363

Coca-Cola was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta by Willis Venable.

[Cheyanne]

12364

Coca-Cola was first bottled in in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894 by August Biedenharn, but was this bottling was only local in scope. Several years later in 1899, Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, two Chattanooga lawyers, obtained rights to bottle Coca Cola in most of the U.S., except for Mississippi, New England and certain areas in Texas.

[Cheyanne]

12365

The site where Coca Cola was first bottled in Missippi is now the Biedenharn Candy Company Museum.

[Cheyanne]

12366

A little about Coca-Cola and Coca leaves (cocaine).

Remember, Coca-Cola was originally marketed for its medicinal qualities.
This was a period of time when many patent medicines contained coca leaves or cocaine (an alkaloid extracted from the leaves), the most popular was 'Vin Mariani', invented by an Italian physician working in France, Angelo Mariani. Vin Mariani was widely imitated, and Pemberton at first produced an imitation of Vin Mariani before formulating his own concoction, Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola never contained much cocaine - and the amount was quickly reduced to almost undetectable amounts after a few years, when cocaine's negative properties started to become evident. (Estimates are the syrup contained 1 part in 50 million - that would be about 1/2 ounce in 25 million gallons of Coca Cola).
Since 1929 there has been no cocaine in Coca Cola. The leaves were still used for flavor, but the alkaloids were completely removed.

[Cheyanne]

12367

Pepsi Trivia....

In 1898, Caleb D. Bradham, a New Bern, North Carolina pharmacist created Pepsi Cola, in imitation of Coca Cola.

[Cheyanne]

12368

Pepsi spent a lot of money on an advertising campaign in China with the slogan 'Pepsi gives you life' - the only problem was they got the translation a little bit off - the translation came out 'Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.'

[Cheyanne]

12369

During Nixon's presidency, Pepsi became the first foreign consumer product to be sold in the Soviet Union.

[Cheyanne]

12370

Budweiser Trivia

Q. When was Budweiser introduced?
A. Budweiser, the Classic American Lager, has been brewed since 1876.

[Cheyanne]

12371

Q. What are the five all-natural ingredients used to make a Budweiser?
A. Budweiser is brewed using only the finest barley malt, rice, hops, yeast and water.

[Cheyanne]

12372

Q. What is the difference between a Lager and an Ale?
A. Lagers use bottom-fermenting yeast, while ales use top-fermenting yeast. Lagers take far longer to ferment and age than ales.

[Cheyanne]

12373

Q. At what temperature should you serve a Budweiser?
A. It is recommended to serve Budweiser at 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Cheyanne]

12374

Q. How much beer does Anheuser-Busch sell?
A. Nearly one of every two beers sold in the United States is an Anheuser-Busch product.

[Cheyanne]

12375

Q. Does the taste of beer improve with age...similar to wine?
A. No. Beer is a food product...the fresher the better. Budweiser is guaranteed to be fresh for 110 days from the "Born On" date printed on the bottle label or bottom of the can. Always store your beer in a cool, dark location.

[Cheyanne]

12376

Q. How long does it take to brew a Budweiser?
A. It takes more than 30 days to brew a Budweiser.

[Cheyanne]

12377

Q. When was the first beer brewed?
A. Recorded history indicates beer dating back more than 6000 years.

[Cheyanne]

12378

Mountain Dew Trivia.....

In the early 40's, Ally & Barney Hartman developed a lithiated lemon-lime drink as a mixer for hard liquor. As a joke on Tennessee Mountain Moonshine, these two brothers from Knoxville called their soda Mountain Dew. In 1948, they registered the trademark and began marketing the mixer. By the late 50's, the drink still only had local popularity. Then Bill Jones, a former fruit flavor salesman, tinkered with the formula, adding some orange juice and other ingredients. Sales spiked almost immediately. In 1964, Pepsi bought Good Ole' Mountain Dew.

[Cheyanne]

12379

7-up Trivia.......

7-Up was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda when it was invented in 1929.

[Cheyanne]

12380

The inventor of 7-Up, C.L. Grigg never explained how he came up with the name. Some of the stories about the origin are:

1) Grigg saw a cattle brand with the number '7' and the letter 'u'.

2) The drink has '7 natural flavors' and carbonation.

3) The 7 is for the original size - 7 ounces - and the Up was for 'bottoms up'.

[Cheyanne]

12381

The first advertising slogan for 7-Up was, “It takes the ouch out of grouch.”

[Cheyanne]

12382

From the 7-Up website: The earliest 7 UP advertising featured a winged 7 UP logo and described the soft drink as “a glorified drink in bottles only. Seven natural flavors blended into a savory, flavory drink with a real wallop.”

[Cheyanne]

12383

A little about sandwhiches.....

The simple ham sandwich is still the most popular sandwich in the US, and in second place is the BLT.

[Cheyanne]

12384

It is estimated that Americans eat 300 million sandwiches each day - that's more than one for every man, woman and child in the nation!

[Cheyanne]

12385

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the record for eating sandwiches is held by Peter Dowdeswell. He ate 40 jam and butter sandwiches (each 6 inches X 3 inches) in 17 minutes, 53.9 seconds on October 17, 1977.

[Cheyanne]

12386

Food Trivia........

Shoo-Fly Pie

This is a Pennsylvania Dutch pie with a molasses and/or brown sugar filling. The name supposedly comes from having to shoo the flys away from this very sweet pie.

[Cheyanne]

12387

Sara Lee

Sara Lee was a real person. In 1935 Charles Lubin and his brother-in-law purchased a chain of small neighborhood bakeries named Community Bake Shops. The business was a success, but Charles parted ways with his brother-in-law in 1949. He named his first product (a cream cheese cake) after his eight year old daughter, and also changed the name of the company, to Kitchens of Sara Lee.

[Cheyanne]

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Seasonings....

Seasoned salt, cinnamon and chili powder are the seasonings most frequently found in American homes.

[Cheyanne]

12389

SKIM MILK

Skim milk contains more calcium than whole milk.

Most of the calcium in milk is not bound up in the fat globules that are removed when 'skimming' the milk, but rather in the water content of the milk. Removing the part of the milk (the milk fat) with a lower percentage of calcium, increases the relative percentage of calcium in the remaining milk.

[Cheyanne]

12390

Sliced Bread

Otto Frederick Rohwedder has been called the father of sliced bread. He worked for many years on developing a bread slicer, starting in 1912. His first efforts met with resistance from bakers, who informed him that the sliced bread would quickly go stale. By 1928, Rohwedder had finally designed a slicer that would also wrap the bread. A baker in Battle Creek, Michigan was the first to begin using his machine.

[Cheyanne]

12391

SPAM

Spam was developed by George A. Hormel & Co. and first marketed in 1937.

During WW II, Hormel sold more than half of its output to the U.S. government, which supplied SPAM to the armed forces of the U.S., and also to the U.S.S.R. under the lend-lease program.

The 1 billionth can of spam was sold in 1959.

Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont, Nebraska.

[Cheyanne]

12392

StarKist Tuna

Charlie the Tuna, the colorful marine representative of StarKist Tuna, made his first appearance in a TV commercial for StarKist, in 1961.

[Cheyanne]

12393

Straws

The first drinking straw was constructed by winding strips of paper around a pencil and gluing it together. The first patent for a wax coated paper drinking straw (made by this spiral winding process) was issued to Marvin C. Stone of Washington, D.C. in 1888. Initially the straws were all hand wound, but in 1906 his Stone Straw Company invented a machine to wind the straws.

[Cheyanne]

12394

Strawberry Shortcake

Plant City, Florida, the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World, holds the Guinness record for the world's largest strawberry shortcake. The 827 square-foot, 6,000 pound cake was made on Feb. 19, 1999 in McCall Park.

[Cheyanne]

12395

SUGAR CUBES

Henry Tate, an English sugar merchant, patented a method of cutting sugar into small cubes in 1872. He made a fortune.

[Cheyanne]

12396

SUGAR SMACKS

In 1953 Kellogg's came out with a new cereal, Sugar Smacks, which contained 56% sugar.

[Cheyanne]

12397

APPLE CIDER

Apple cider in the U.S. is the same as apple juice.

Some companies will use the term cider to refer to apple juice with no preservatives, and apple juice to juice that has been pasteurized.

Fermented apple juice which is alcoholic, is called 'hard cider' in the U.S.

Unfermented apple juice is called 'apple juice' in most other countries, and the term 'cider' refers to 'hard cider'; it has been fermented and is an alcoholic beverage.

Cider was the most common fruit beverage in the U.S. up to the mid 19th century. Without refrigeration, fresh juice was very perishable, so apple juice was virtually all 'hard cider', being allowed to ferment to a low alcohol content, usually around 5 percent alcohol. Next to water, this cider was the cheapest and most widely available beverage year-round.

[Cheyanne]

12398

Aunt Jemima Pancakes

Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood purchased the Pearl Milling Company in 1889, and came up with the novel idea of creating a ready-mixed pancake flour.* Rutt named it for a catchy tune called 'Aunt Jemima' which he had recently heard in a vaudeville show. Rutt and Underwood went broke in 1890, and sold the formula for Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix to the R.T. Davis Milling Company. Davis looked for a woman to represent the product, and hired an African American woman named Nancy Green from Chicago, Illinois.

At the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, Davis made an all-out effort to promote the new pancake mix, and built the world's largest flour barrel. 'Aunt Jemima' (Nancy Green) demonstrated how to use the new mix, and the exhibit was so popular, police had to control the crowds at the Aunt Jemima booth. Nancy Green was awarded a medal and proclaimed 'Pancake Queen' by the Fair officials. Soon signed to a lifetime contract by Davis, Green was a hit all across the country, as she toured demonstrating the new Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, and by 1910 it was available nationally. She played the part of Aunt Jemima until her death on September 24, 1923 (she died in a car accident).

Aunt Jemima Mills were purchased in 1925 by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago.

[Cheyanne]

12399

AVOCADO

Avocados have been cultivated in Central America for almost 7,000 years.

Avocados are about 22% fat, with the average medium size avocado containing 300 calories and 30 grams of fat.

Fallbrook, California is the Avocado Capital of the World. More avocados are grown there than any place else in the U.S.

[Cheyanne]

12400

BAGELS

Bagels are formed from an eggless dough (flour, yeast, water and oil) into a donut shape, then droped in rapidly boiling water, cooked 3 - 5 minutes on one side then flipped and cooked 3 -5 minutes more on the other side. Drained, sometimes brushed with egg and then baked for 10 minutes or so.

[Cheyanne]

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Baby Food

Never give honey to infants under 1 year old, as honey may contain Clostridium botulinum spores to which infants have very little resistance. Once ingested, these spores may germinate and release deadly toxins. Once infants are a year or so old, they have developed some resistance to botulinum spores.

Real Baby Food. When U.S. companies begin marketing their products in Africa, it is common practice to have a picture on the label of what is inside, since most people there can not read English. Gerber Baby Food was not aware of this, and ran into a problem, since the photo on their label is of a cute Caucasian baby.

[Cheyanne]

12402

BAKED BEANS

Native Americans flavored their baked beans with maple syrup and bear fat, and baked them in earthenware pots placed in a pit and covered with hot rocks. The Pilgrims most likely learned how to make baked beans from the Native Americans, substituting molasses and pork fat for the maple syrup and bear fat.

[Cheyanne]

12403

BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM

25% of Baskin Robbins ('31 flavors') ice cream sales are for plain vanilla.

[Cheyanne]

12404

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry's ice cream company was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, in a renovated gas station by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

Waste from Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream company is given to local farmers in Vermont to feed to their hogs. It is said the hogs don't particularly care for the Mint Oreo.

[Cheyanne]

12405

BETTY CROCKER

"Betty Crocker" was a fictional spokesperson created by General Mills in the early 1920s to answer letters from consumers.

[Cheyanne]

12406

Black Forest Cake

Germany has long been known for its love of and quality of its chocolate, and the Black Forest area in the south is known for the quality of its pastries, and especially for its sour cherries and Kirsch made from those cherries. Kirsch or Kirschwasser is a double distilled, clear cherry brandy made from the small, sour Morello cherry which has a dark red skin. They leave the pits in the cherries when preparing the 'mash' for distilling and some of them are crushed, which gives a sort of bitter almond flavor to Kirsch.

Black Forest Cake - Schwarzwälder Kirsch torte (chocolate layer cake with Kirsch, whipped cream, sour cherries and chocolate curls) - originated in Swabia in the Black Forest Region. When and by whom I have never seen any references. But it was most likely soon after chocolate arrived in the late 16th century. Austria, Spain and France were the countries who drank the most hot chocolate then (its original use) and chocolate and cherries just naturally go together.

[Cheyanne]

12407

BOLOGNA

Americans eat 800 million pounds of bologna annually.

[Cheyanne]

12408

BLT

The BLT is still the second-most popular sandwich in the United States (the simple ham sandwich is first).

The BLT, (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich) became popular when fresh lettuce and tomatoes became available year round with the rapid expansion of supermarkets after World War II.

A BLT is best when made at home, rather than ordered at a restaurant. The bacon must be fresh cooked and crisp, I like maple cured and smoked bacon. While the bacon is draining on paper towels, toast the bread and slice a ripe, but not too juicey, beefsteak tomato. Make the sandwich with crisped Romaine or Bibb lettuce and some mayonnaise.

[Cheyanne]

12409

Boston Cream Pie is not a pie, it is a cake composed of 2 layers of sponge cake with a layer of custard or cream filling, usually topped with chocolate. Boston Cream Pie is the official state dessert of Massachusetts.

Boston Cream Pie is not a pie, it is a cake.
A Boston Butt is from the front leg of a pig.
I have nothing against Boston, but it makes you wonder.
At least Boston Baked Beans are really beans!

[Cheyanne]

12410

Chef Boyardee

There really was a Chef Boyardee. Born in Italy, worked at the Plaza and the Ritz-Carlton in New York, the Greenbriar in West Virginia, and the Hotel Winton in Cleveland.

[Cheyanne]

12411

BREAKFAST CEREALS

‘Post Grape Nuts’ were first made in 1897

General Foods 'Post Toasties' cereal (1904) was originally called ‘Elijah's Manna’.

James C. Jackson, a follower of Sylvester Graham (who praised the virtues of whole grain flour, which was soon to be called Graham flour) developed what he called 'Granula' in 1863. Granula was Graham flour dough baked into dry loaves, broken into chunks and baked again, and then ground into still smaller chunks. This was the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal. (C.W. Post used basically the same recipe for Post's Grape Nuts in 1898).

By the way, 'Granola' (baked wheat, oats and corn nuggets) was developed in 1877 by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (before he formed the cereal company with his brother). He originally called his cereal 'Granula', but was sued by Jackson, and they compromised on the name 'Granola'.


The first ‘Wheaties’ commercial (live) aired when host Red Barbar promoted it during a Brooklyn Dodgers game (Variety, August 30, 1939). Later the Dodgers did a promotion dressed in street clothes saying 'Yum, Yum Stuff!' (Variety, April 24, 1940). (Thanks to Peter Emery at Food TV for this info)

[Cheyanne]

12412

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's wedding cake was 9 feet around, weighed 300 pounds and was 14 inches high. It was served at the wedding breakfast.

Trix cereal, introduced in 1954 by General Mills, was more than 46% sugar.

[Cheyanne]

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Burger King

Burger King was founded by James McLamore and David Edgerton in 1954. It was sold to Pillsbury in 1967.

[Cheyanne]

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HAMBURGERS

One of many stories on the origin of the hamburger: Kenneth Lassen, owner of Louis Lunch, a 14 stool diner in New Haven, Connecticut, says that his grandfather, Louis Lassen, first served hamburger patties on buns at the restaurant in 1904.

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In 1921, Walter A. Anderson (a short-order cook) and E.W. Ingram (an insurance executive) founded White Castle in Wichita, Kansas. It is the oldest hamburger chain. They served steam-fried hamburgers, 18 per pound of fresh ground beef, cooked on a bed of chopped onions, for a nickel.

[Cheyanne]

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In 1999 there were more than 25,000 McDonald's in 115 countries.

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Hamburgers and Cheeseburgers comprise 71% of the beef servings in commercial restaurants. (2001)

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Burgers account for 40% of all sandwiches sold. (2001)

8.2 Billion burgers were served in commercial restaurants in 2001.

65% of all hamburgers and cheeseburgers are consumed away from home. (2001)

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The record for the largest hamburger is held by Rutland, North Dakota. In 1982 the town made the World's Largest Hamburger, 3,591 pounds, which was consumed by some 8,000 people.

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Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania has offered a 6 pound hamburger, named Ye Olde 96er (6 pounds = 96 ounces) since 1998. It comes garnished with 2 whole tomatoes, 1/2 head of lettuce, 12 slices of American cheese, a cup of peppers, 2 whole onions, plus large quantities of mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard. No one has been able to finish one.

[Cheyanne]

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The Hamburger hall of fame is located in Seymour, Wisconsin.

[Cheyanne]

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HOT DOGS

Nathan Handwerker started his own Coney Island boardwalk business in 1916 ('Nathan's') to sell hot dogs for a nickel. Reportedly this was on the advice of a singing waiter and his piano player, Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante.

[Cheyanne]

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Americans eat more than 16 billion hot dogs each year.

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George J. French introduced his French's mustard in 1904, the same year that the hot dog was introduced to America at the St. Louis World's Fair.

[Cheyanne]

12425

Hot dogs or frankfurters, are usually said to have originated in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany around 1484. Some claim it originated in Coburg, Germany and was created by butcher Johann Georghehner in the 1600, and Vienna also claims to be the origin.

[Cheyanne]

12426

The hot dog on a bun Americans are most familiar with, also has more than one story as to where it was first served. The most common story is that they were originally sold from pushcarts on the streets of New York City during the 1860s.

[Cheyanne]

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Another story has 2 steps: They were a hit wrapped in paper at the 1886 Colombian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1904 at the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition where they were probably first served in a bun (still called frankfurters).
What we do know for sure is that they were popularized as "red hots" in New York by Harry M. Stevens, a vendor at the Polo Grounds (some say Yankee Stadium). And T.A. Dorgan, a cartoonist named them when he drew one as a dachshund on an elongated bun around 1906 and called it a "hot dog."

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to King George VI of England during his 1939 visit to the United States.

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Hush Puppies

A Southern U.S. specialty consisting of balls of cornmeal batter, seasoned with chopped onion, garlic, etc. and fried. The name supposedly originated when Southern hunters were gathered about the fire to cook the evening meal, and the dogs would start barking and begging for food. The cook would drop bits of corn meal batter and toss them to the hungry dogs with the admonition, 'hush, puppy!'"

[Cheyanne]

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Hot Fudge Sundae

The Hot Fudge Sundae was created in 1906 at C.C. Browns, a new ice cream parlor on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

[Cheyanne]

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HUNGRY MAN DINNERS

American financier and philanthropist Diamond Jim Brady was known to eat 6 or 7 giant lobsters, dozens of oysters, clams and crabs, 2 ducks, steak and desserts at a single sitting. George Rector, a New York restaurateur said he was "the best twenty-five customers I ever had." Diamond Jim was also known to eat 8 steaks at one meal!

[Cheyanne]

12432

CAMPBELL’S SOUP

The colors of Campbell's Soup labels, red and white, come from the colors of the Cornell University football team.

Campbell Soup Company started out as a canning company in New Jersey in 1869. It was founded by an icebox maker (Abram Anderson) and a fruit merchant (Joseph Campbell). Later, Arthur Dorrance replaced Anderson, and it was a nephew of Dorrance, chemist John, who invented condensed soup in 1897. This gave the company a decided advantage over competitors because shipping costs were much reduced, which enabled it to become one of the first food companies to have national distribution. The soups won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and the medal has been on the label since then.

[Cheyanne]

12433

DAIRY QUEEN

The first Dairy Queen opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. By 1960 there were 3,000 Dairy Queens in 12 countries. Hamburgers and hot dogs were added to the menu at some outlets beginning in 1957, in Georgia.

However, the actual first sale of the soft frozen dairy product took place on August 4, 1938, when the father and son founders ran a trial sale at a friend's ice cream store. They sold over 1,600 portions at 10 cents each, in only two hours.

[Cheyanne]

12434

Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper was invented in Waco, Texas in 1885, at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store, probably by Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working there. It became known nationally, along with hamburgers and hot dogs on buns, and ice cream cones, at the 1904 World's Fair Exposition in St. Louis.

There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper, it was dropped from the name in the 1950s. There is no record of how the name came about, and the company museum has collected more than a dozen different stories of the name's origin.

Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink manufacturer in the United States.

[Cheyanne]

12435

FANNY FARMER

Fanny Farmer had to pay the printing costs of her cookbook, The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, because Little, Brown and Company were not very enthusiastic about publishing another cookbook. By 1977, over 4 million copies had been sold, outselling any other book ever published by Little, Brown and Company.

[Cheyanne]

12436

FIG NEWTONS

Fig Newtons were created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. They had named many of their other cookies for nearby towns, and almost called it the "Fig Shrewsbury" before Newton won out.

[Cheyanne]

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FORTUNE COOKIES

Although it is true that Ancient Chinese warlords would send messages hidden inside cakes, fortune cookies are not Chinese, they were invented in Los Angeles around 1920.

[Cheyanne]

12438

LONGEST WORD

According to the Guiness book of World Records, the longest word ever to occur in a literary work has to do with a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour ingredients, including brains, honey vinegar, fish, pickles, and ouzo. The word appears in The Ecclesiazusae, a satirical comedy by Aristophanes (443-388? BC), an Athenian playwright. In Greek, the word is 170 letters, transliterated into English it is 182 letters. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiopar aomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopteke phalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.

[Cheyanne]

12439

RANCH DRESSING

There really was a Hidden Valley Ranch. It was a resort in California, and it was there that Ranch Dressing was 'invented' sometime in the 1950's.

[Cheyanne]

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3 MUSKETEERS CANDY BAR

The Three Musketeers bar was introduced in 1932. The original 3 Musketeers had 3 bars in one wrapper, each with a different flavor.

[Cheyanne]

12441

Tootsie Roll

In 1896 Tootsie Rolls debuted, introduced by Leo Hirshfield of New York who named them after his daughter's nickname, 'Tootsie'.

[Cheyanne]

12442

Twinkies

Twinkies snack cakes were invented in 1930 by James Dewar of the Continental Baking Company in Chicago. Dewar supposedly ate 2 Twinkies a day until he died in 1985

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Originally posted by Cheyanne
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Q. Does the taste of beer improve with age...similar to wine?
A. No. Beer is a food product...the fresher the better. Budweiser is guaranteed to be fresh for 110 days from the "Born On" date printed on the bottle label or bottom of the can. Always store your beer in a cool, dark location.

I think that this really depends on the beer in question.... for American style lagers this is most certainly true. For some other styles, such as a double or triple Boch, they require time in the bottle.

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He he he... I still have two bottles of stout in my fridge that I brewed over 3 years ago. Over time the quantity has dwindled as I get curious to see if the beer is still OK, I open the bottle take a taste and it is still just as good as it was. I only get to do that two more times :)

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off to work :(

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This thread proves the theory of hope triumphing over experience, does it not?

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12449~It proves that there's nothing like a group effort, working towards a goal. :)

[Cheyanne]

12450

Wasn't sure if anyone would read these.. :D

Originally posted by MilkToast
I think that this really depends on the beer in question.... for American style lagers this is most certainly true. For some other styles, such as a double or triple Boch, they require time in the bottle.

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He he he... I still have two bottles of stout in my fridge that I brewed over 3 years ago. Over time the quantity has dwindled as I get curious to see if the beer is still OK, I open the bottle take a taste and it is still just as good as it was. I only get to do that two more times :)

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,451~You'd be surprised at what we'd read. :)

[Cheyanne]

12452

LOL

Cobalt told me that when I couldn't sleep last night I put over 50 pages onto this thread.......

[IAKaraokeGirl]

12,453~Yep, saw that you were a night owl :D

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12,456~Afternoon, Illinois neighbor.

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[MilkToast]

Originally posted by Cheyanne
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Wasn't sure if anyone would read these.. :D

I've read all the posts in this thread :)

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[Nubian]

12,469

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

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Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much.

[Nubian]

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Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

[Nubian]

12,472

Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.

[Nubian]

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An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."

[Nubian]

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Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

[Nubian]

12,475

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

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California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.

[Nubian]

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Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.

[Nubian]

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China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.

[Nubian]

12,479

Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

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Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate. Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds per person.

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Each American eats an average of 51 pounds of chocolate per year.

[Nubian]

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Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.

[Nubian]

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Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down restaurants in the US. The next in popularity are: roast beef, spaghetti, turkey, baked ham, and fried shrimp.

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Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD.

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Haggis, the national dish of Scotland: take the heart, liver, lungs, and small intestine of a calf or sheep, boil them in the stomach of the animal, season with salt, pepper and onions, add suet and oatmeal. Enjoy!

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12,486

Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies."

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In 1860, 'Godey's Lady's Book' advised US women to cook tomatoes for at least 3 hours.

[Nubian]

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In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese, and named it after himself: Cobb salad.

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In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.

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In an authentic Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion.

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In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

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Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

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Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice cream sundae in Evanston, IL, in 1875.

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Mayonnaise is said to be the invention of the French chef of the Duke de Richelieu in 1756. While the Duke was defeating the British at Port Mahon, his chef was creating a victory feast that included a sauce made of cream and eggs. When the chef realized that there was no cream in the kitchen, he improvised, substituting olive oil for the cream. A new culinary masterpiece was born, and the chef named it "Mahonnaise" in honor of the Duke's victory.

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McDonald's "Big Mac" slogan, introduced in 1975, is: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun."

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McDonalds and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown.

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Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.

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Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.

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Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.