Food Issues of Contemporary Society

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October 27, 2006

Interesting/Digusting/Weird/Are you serious?


Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.


....interesting.


Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.


......are rats not a part of the world?


Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.


.....weird.


The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.


.....are you serious? Why not macadamia?

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