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