14th Dec 2018 - 09:30
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It's Friday, so you know what that means? It's our weekly dose of Friday Food Facts, check them out and be sure to send us in your own!
- Ooho! is a completely biodegradable water 'bottle' that resembles water balloon. You can drink from it by piercing the membrane.
- You don’t need to be fluent in Japanese to order fast food there – a Big Mac is a ‘bikku makku’ and a cheeseburger is a ‘chiizu bagaa’.
- Did you know that the first food cooked in a microwave was popcorn? But perhaps even more interestingly is that the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.
- The fungus used to create blue cheeses – penicillium roqueforti - is related to the penicillin we use as an an antibiotic.
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