In the early 1900s, Celery was considered a delicacy and one of the most popular foods in America. Kalamazoo was the Celery capital of the world. sporkful.com/when-celery-…
Celery was a very popular food in the 1800s through early 1900s. It was the third most popular menu ingredient in New York City restaurants, behind coffee and tea. Celery cost more than caviar because it was so hard to cultivate in those days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel…
Once upon a time, there was vegetable-flavored Jell-O, meant for salads. There was a celery flavor and a mixed vegetable flavor. clickamericana.com/topics…
Despite the common perception that Celery is “negative- calorie”. (meaning the caloric expenditure from eating and digesting it is greater than then the calories it contains) there is no evidence to support this claim housing.ucsb.edu/dining/n…
Carol Channing hadn't eaten restaurant food in 15 years, when interviewed in 1978. She would bring her own food, such as zucchini or chopped celery, to restaurants and ask for an empty plate and glass. For dessert, she ate seeds. Nor would she drink alcoholic beverages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car…
Contrary to popular belief, celery is not a negative-calorie food. A single stalk is worth about 6 calories, and only takes about half a calorie to digest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neg…
The popularity of Jell-O salads was so high in the 1950's that the company began making flavors such as celery, mixed vegetable, and seasoned tomato. The flavors have since been discontinued. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jel…
Foley artists twisted a stalk of celery to create the spine-crunching effect heard in the film "The Big Lebowski," and apples and chamois were used to create the effect in "Silence of the Lambs" when Hannibal Lecter sinks his teeth into his victim’s face during the film’s climax. mentalfloss.com/article/9…
Peanut butter sandwiches were once reserved for the finest tearooms in NYC as peanut butter was a rarity, and thus a delicacy; it was initially paired with a diverse set of foods such as pimento, nasturtium, cheese, celery, watercress, and on toasted crackers. books.google.com/books?id…
Eating celery makes you more attractive by stimulating pheromens, which are chemicals that give off signals to other people, especially ones that will make the opposite sex attracted to you. complex.com/pop-culture/2…
"uncured" bacon (and other normally cured meat) is actually cured -- they just replace the sodium nitrate with celery powder, which naturally contains high amounts of nitrates, resulting in bacon which is, in fact, identical to "cured" bacon. ruhlman.com/2011/05/the-n…
A serial killer named Albert Fish admitted to his gruesome cannibalistic acts in the early 1900s stating "I made a stew out of his ears, nose, pieces of his face and belly. I put onions, carrots, turnips, celery, salt and pepper. It was good." listverse.com/2007/08/22/…
Carrots, Celery, and Parsley despite being wildly different vegetables (we eat the roots, stems, and leaves, respectively) are all part of the same family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api…
That "Ants on a log" is a children's snack made by spreading peanut butter on celery and "artfully arranging" raisins on top en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant…
Celery is a symbolic food served at Amish weddings. It is also placed in vases and used to decorate the house instead of flowers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami…
The Demeter Fragrance Library has bottled the following scents: "Holy water", "Cannabis flower", "Celery", "Crayon", "Funeral home", etc. demeterfragrance.com/5808…
Fans at Gillingham Football Club were subjected to celery searches in 1996. a craze had started for waving sticks of celery while chanting an obscene song. So anyone caught in possession of the vegetable was threatened with a life ban. independent.co.uk/news/sa…
Paul McCartney chewed celery and carrots as percussion in 2 different songs: Vegetables by the Beach Boys (1967) and Receptacle for the Respectable by Super Furry Animals (2001) mtv.com/news/articles/145…
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