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The Pillsbury Bake-off has been held every year since 1948.
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The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.
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The sandwich is named for the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom sandwiches were made so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.
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The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
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The white part of an egg is the albumen
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The white potato originated in the Andes mountains and was probably brought to Britain by Sir Francis Drake about 1586.
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The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.
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The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound , is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
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The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting within 6 to 12 hours of ingestion. This is followed by damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system - and, in the majority of cases, coma and death.
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To determine the percentage of alcohol in a bottle of liquor divide the proof by two.
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Van Camp's Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War.
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Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
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When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
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When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."
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