Some weird food trivia

• Celery has negative calories.  It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

• Honey is believed to be the only food that does not spoil.  Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to still be edible.

• The table fork was introduced into England in 1601. Until then people would eat with their knives, spoons or fingers. When Queen Elizabeth first used a fork, the clergy went ballistic. They felt it was an insult to God not to touch meat with one’s fingers.

• The cashew nut in its natural state contains poisonous oil.  Roasting removes the oil and makes the nuts safe to eat.

• Although explorers brought potatoes back from the New World in the early 1500s, Europeans were afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds would give them leprosy.  It wasn’t until Louis XVI, who was looking for a cheap food source for his starving subjects, served them at the royal table that people were convinced potatoes were safe to eat.

• It takes, on average, 345 squirts from a cow’s udder to yield one gallon of milk.