Trivias for your Brain and Stomach :D

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To all dessert lovers, I want to share some stuff with all of you. It is both good for your brain and your stomach.:))

It's nice to know a lot about what you want right? These are trivias about our desserts, in case you didn't know about how they started and came to be our favorite.

 Here it goes:

In 1936 Jell-O came out with a cola flavored Jell-O. It only lasted for one year before being dropped.

In a survey conducted in 1951 of the U.S. armed services, banana cream pie was the favorite dessert. Rice pudding was the least liked.

In countless surveys, Apple Pie has been chosen the favorite dessert in the United States. Apple pie has also been a favorite in England for hundreds of years.

The official state dessert of Massachusetts is Boston cream pie.

A crisp is a deep dish fruit dessert baked with a crumb or struesel topping similar to a cobbler.

The official state dessert of South Dakota is Kuchen.

Marlborough Pie is a Massachusetts specialty. It is an applesauce custard pie, seasoned with nutmeg and sherry. Marlborough pie is frequently served as a Thanksgiving dessert.

A Betty is a baked dessert dating to Colonial America, It is a baked pudding made with layers of spiced sweetened fruit (usually apples) and buttered bread crumbs. Apple Brown Betty is made with brown sugar and sliced apples.

Cherries Jubilee is a dessert created by August Escoffier in honor of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It consists of cherries flamed tableside with sugar and Kirsch (cherry brandy) spooned over vanilla ice cream.

 Source:http://www.foodreference.com/html/fdesserts.html

Fun Facts about Chocolate!:)

We all love Chocolates right? But isn't it weird that we always get to eat them without knowing all about it?We are used to satisfy our cravings with chocolate, and I just wanna share some facts about it which we all don't usually know. I came across the blog, of lindtusa and found this amazing facts:

1. The first recorded “Death by Chocolate” case occurred in the 17th Century in Chiapas, Mexico.  Upper class Spaniards were so addicted to chocolate that they refused to adhere to a church dictated chocolate ban that forbade them from eating or drinking any food during the church services.  As a result, the people of the town refused not only listen to the ban but chose to attend worship services in convents instead.  The Bishop who passed the law was later found dead due to poison being mixed into his daily cup of chocolate.

2. The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word, “Xocolatl”, which ironically means “bitter water”.

3. The biggest bar of chocolate ever made was created in 2000 and weighed 5,000 pounds.  Turin is the city in Italy that can be proud of this accomplishment.

4. Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year, or approximately 2.8 billion pounds annually which is split almost equally between chocolate and candy.  Most Europeans consume far less than this.

5. While the US produces the most chocolate and consume the most pounds every year, the Swiss consume the most per capita,  followed closely by the English.

6. Besides the obvious cheese and ice cream industries, American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk and consume approximately 3.5 million pounds of whole milk yearly.

7. Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts.

8. Chocolate is technically responsible for the microwave.  Scientists were experimenting with micro waves in hopes of creating better radar detectors and in the wake of World War II, scientists were testing devices called magnetrons.  A scientist named Percy Spencer entered the lab with a chocolate bar in his pocket and realized it quickly began to melt. Spencer then realized that the magnetron could potentially be used to cook food.  He successfully tried popping corn and then attempted to cook an egg which cooked so quickly, it blew up in his face.

9. Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.

10. On the fourth visit of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, he presented cocoa beans to the Spanish Court.  King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle were not impressed and dismissed the chocolate as bizarre tribal concoctions.

Now, when you eat chocolates, you can be proud of knowing facts about them. This costs you extra bragging rights Share them to your friends, like I did to you. :)

Source: http://blog.lindtusa.com/10-interesting-chocolate-facts