Saturday, October 19, 2013
Top 10 facts about food
1. The food eaten in the life of the average person in the western world weighs as much as six fully grown elephants.
2. There is a Museum of Burnt Food in Arlington, Massachusetts, with around 50,000 specimens of charred food and an entire Hall of Burnt Toast.
3. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food” (George Bernard Shaw).
4. The estimated total UK food and drink waste each year is around 15 million tonnes.
5. Each year, 600,000 tonnes of food waste from restaurants, pubs and hotels in the UK goes into landfill.
6. The Gaelic word sgiomlaireachd (pronounced scum-leerie) means the habit of dropping in at mealtimes.
7. The total UK consumer expenditure in 2012 on food, drink and catering services was £188billion.
8. That works out at an average of £8.20 per person per day.
9. Thirty per cent of the world’s population generally eat their food with chopsticks.
10. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet” (Fran Lebowitz).
