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Miscellaneous Jokes, Humor and Trivia for the
"Martha Stewart Living Impaired"
Food Trivia
 Peanuts are one of
the ingredients of dynamite.
Beetles
taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried
pork rinds.
The
citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original
containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties
of pickles the company once had.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
jelly.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
A fresh onion, when cut, releases a gas called propanethiol-S into the
air. When this gas reaches your eyes, it mixes with the water in the
eye to form a weak acid. This acid irritates the eye and causes the
tear-producing glands to flood the eye with water in an attempt to wash
away the irritant. These tears are what makes you look like you're crying.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from
each salad served in first-class.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez
dispenser.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
A man from Madrid set a world's record for cracking 30 walnuts in 57
seconds. (The unusual thing about it - he did it with his buttocks!?!)
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