Monday, March 9, 2009

Today features some fun facts from none other than Hungry Girl - can you tell I'm obsessed?

  • The first soup dates back to 6000 B.C., with the main ingredient being hippopotamus bones.
  • If you spend 5 minutes out of every hour of your workday running in place, climbing stairs, or doing squats, lunges and arm raises, by the end of the day you'll have worked out for 40 minutes.
  • Meatloaf recipes first appeared in American cookbooks in the 1880s.
  • Chocolate syrup was used to represent blood in the famous 45-second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho.
  • Americans spend about $10 billion annually at coffee outlets, according to the Specialty Coffee Association of America.
  • The term "toast," meaning a wish for good health, originated in ancient Rome, where an actual piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.
  • Pumpkin is a great substitute for oil, butter and other fatty ingredients used in baking.
I'm totally doing the toasted bread dropped in wine thing now!!!

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