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The Masarwa tribe living in the Serowe district of Bechuanaland have an inexhaustible food supply in the mopani tree. It is not, however, the tree's fruit the natives seek so avidly but the caterpillars that thrive on its leaves.
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All bananas, even those eaten where they grow in the tropics, are picked green — they are not fit to eat if permitted to ripen on the plants.
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The cashew, perhaps the most popular and tasty of all nuts, is originally poisonous but the toxic ingredient is removed by roasting.
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Inspectors of foods usually find they can do more when they smell rather than taste an article.
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There are two kinds of caviar, black and gray, with the gray supposedly the finer specimen.
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Alexander the Great was so interested in discovering new kinds of rations that he promoted soldiers who brought him an unusual meat, fruit or vegetable.
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Harold Drawdy, 13, of Winter Haven, Fla., proved that a schoolboy can eat 1 5 J/2 t>>6 oranges in five minutes.
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Eggs of plovers, ostriches, alligators, crocodiles, turtles, penguins, gulls, albatrosses and pelicans are all important parts of the diets of people in some part of the world.
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Charles Posner, Los Angeles, laid claim to the title of world's champion hamburger eater by eating 13 after a steak dinner.
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Joe Gagnon, Warren, R. I., gulped down 167 little-neck clams in eight minutes.
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A breakfast cereal made out of prunes has been developed.
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Kenneth C. Royall, while on an inspection trip of a GI mess hall as Secretary of the Army, saw a stack of apple pies, exclaimed "My, these smell good," and proceeded to eat a whole one all by himself.
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Hamburger steak is the most popular American dish, a survey of the American Hotel Association has revealed.