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What is the biggest selling restaurant food? French fries are served with 22 percent of meals served in restaurants. Burgers are in second place with 17 percent.
Who were M&Ms invented for? M&Ms were originally invented for soldiers to carry in their K rations as regular chocolate tended to melt.
What costs more to produce in a can of soda, the can or the soda? In most cases, the can costs more. Especially since the invention of high-fructose corn syrup, sodas only cost a couple of pennies a serving. With those kinds of profit margins, you can see how restaurants can offer free refills.
How much of a typical chicken nugget is chicken meat? About 16 percent is meat. The rest is ground up chicken skin and other ingredients. According to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, there are 38 ingredients in a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget.
56 percent of the nugget is corn.
How many Twinkies do Americans consume each year? 500 million. Chicago, the birthplace of the Twinkie, is also the Twinkie-eatingest city. No statistics as to how many were deep-fried.
November 11, 2008 at 11:56 am
Love the food facts! Check out my blog on Attack of the Munchies…lol
November 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm
damn! That is really interesting! you’ll be happy to know, i live in chicago and I don’t even like twinkies! lol
that’s gross though, on the chic. nuggets! i like to make mine in the oven, from REAL CHICKEN BREAST!
November 11, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I want to read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’ve heard good things about it. I’m a vegetarian, but I am interested in what Pollan has to say.
November 11, 2008 at 12:46 pm
OMG, I am glad I don’t eat or drink of these things, my mum never gave us these types of food, so I never were keen on eating crap like that. Great to know these facts.
November 12, 2008 at 6:23 am
M&Ms are my weakness.
I’m thankful I haven’t had chicken nuggets in years. Give me the boneless skinless chicken and lean red meat anytime!
November 12, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Thank you verry much for the advise shannan!
November 18, 2008 at 11:10 am
OMG! Chicken Nuggets are 56% corn? I am getting rid of these immediately from my kids diet! Thanks!
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