Food

When we tuck into our warm croissants in the morning, have you ever wondered why they are shaped like a crescent, well here’s your answer.

In 1686, some Hungarian bakers were working at night when they heard Turkish invaders digging underground, on their way to the city.  The bakers alerted the people and the invaders were sent packing.

To celebrate their part in the victory, the bakers created a pastry in the shape of a crescent (the Turkish emblem) and that’s why the croissant is still crescent – shaped today.

Hands up who thought that croissants were something to do with the French….

We are all told how much better a ‘jacket potato’ is for you rather than chips or waffles.

This here are the reasons why they are more healthy…

The skin of a potato contains fibre and vitamins, and when the ‘jacket’ is kept on these remain in the potato rather than being boiled into the water.

Potatoes contain vitamin C and the vital vitamin B that helps the body make healthy red blood cells and amino acids.

Also, they don’t have any fat in them, as long as they are not fried or you add a lot of butter to them.

So, potatoes are a good all rounder, inside and out 🙂

The English Code of Practice on ‘Noise from Ice-cream vans chimes’ of 1982 states that it is illegal to sound ice-cream van chimes ‘so as to cause annoyance’.

Chimes must not be…

• sounded for any longer than four seconds at a time;
• used more than once every three minutes;
• used near other ice-cream vans which are trading nearby
• sounded when stationary;
• sounded within 50 metres of a school, places of worship or hospital;
• used more than once every two hours in the same street;

So every time you hear an ice cream van near you, just listen to the chime and wonder if it passes the above chime test!

We all love to have a food treat now and again, whether it’s a take-out or going to a restaurant. And if, like me, you want to include the children, Pizza is always a good choice!

So grab a pizza the action and have a read of our weird, wonderful pizza facts from some of the more exotic choices of pizza toppings from around the world:

In India, the most popular toppings are pickled ginger, minced mutton and paneer (a type of cottage cheese).

Russia enjoyes a very fishy topping, Mockba (a mixture of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon, onions and red herring).

Brazil likes simplicity in green peas.

For Japan, they add eel, squid and mayo jaga (which is mayonnaise, potato and bacon)

In France they prefer Flambee (bacon, onion and fresh cream) ooh la la!!

Korea enjoys a potato pizza, with potato, onions, bacon, mushrooms, cheese and mayonnaise – a little bit like a friita without the eggs.

For Switzerland the popular pizza topping is a tex-mex style, which includes onions, double beef, fresh tomatoes and jalapeno peppers.

And finally Greece, they enjoy hellenic, which consists of many ingrediants, including pepperoni, onion, green pepper, fresh tomato, greek olives, feta cheese and oregano.

That’s quite a variety isn’t it, as for my family and me we enjoy the meat feast, which has pepperoni, spicy beef and chicken and good old fashioned hawaiian which is ham and pineapple.

So whatever your choice I’m sure you and your family with have a full stomach after munching your own version of the perfect pizza.

Yes, according to scientists it is true, but only up to a point.

The brain needs decosahexaenoic acid to develop and this is found in oily fish, but beyond that fish has no extra ‘brainy’ properties not found in other sources of protein.