Food and Drinks Trivia

  • Draught beers are rarely pasteurised and should be consumed in less that 30 days.
  • Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
  • The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
  • Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers
  • Domino's Pizza was originally called DomiNick's Pizza, but the name was changed in 1965.
  • Someone with an irrational fear of meat is called a carnophobic.
  • When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.
  • There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne
  • 'Mageiricophobia’ is the intense fear of having to cook.
  • The term "hooch" for liquor comes from the Hoochinoo Indians, known for their ability to make liquor so strong it could knock someone out
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