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Supplementary reading. It’s interesting to know. The earliest restaurant was opened in 1725 in Calle de Cuchilleros 17



It’s interesting to know.

    1. The earliest restaurant was opened in 1725 in Calle de Cuchilleros 17, Madrid. Goya, the painter, was a dishwasher there in 1765 when he was 19.
    2. The word’s most popular soft drink is Coca-Cola. It s sold in more than 155 countries. 3000.000.000 drinks are sold per day. Coke was launched as a tonic by Dr. John S. Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia in 1886. Dr. Pemberton was a chemist and he invented a tonic containing cola nut extract in the back room of his shop. The Coca-Cola Company was formed in 1892. The secret “7X” formula was unchanged until 1985 when Coca-Cola had 21.7% of the $28 billion market to Pepsi’s 18.8%.
    3. The longest recorded case of survival without food and water is 18 days by Andreas Mihavecz,18, of Austria, who was put into a holding cell and forgotten by the police. He was discovered close to death having had neither food nor water.
    4. The largest menu item in the world is roasted camel, prepared occasionally for Bedouin wedding feasts. Cooked eggs are stuffed in fish, the fish stuffed in cooked chickens, the chickens stuffed into a roasted sheep carcass and the sheep stuffed into a whole camel.
    5. The hottest of all spices is claimed to be Siling labuyo from the Philippines. The chilli pepper known as Tepin from the south west of the USAcomes in pods 7 mm in diameter. A single dried gram will produce detectable 'heat' in 30 kg of sauce.




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