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quote[0]="Fermented beaver tail, traditionally  a Native Alaskan specialty, is made by burying the tail in a pit for weeks or months. It is known as &#147;stinky tail.&#148;"
quote[1]="The Maillard reaction, also known as the browning reaction, is what makes self-tanning products work."
quote[2]="In May 1997, Dale Novak, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, won the SPAM-carving contest with his SPAM castle dubbed <i>Spamalot.</i>"
quote[3]="In the 1971 film <i>La Mortadella,</i> Sophia Loren's character is arrested at U.S. customs for refusing to give up a 20-pound mortadella sausage she has brought with her from Italy."
quote[4]="<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reports that U.S. livestock eat enough grain and soybeans to feed over five times the number of people in the U.S."
quote[5]="It takes up to 16 pounds of grain or soybeans to produce just one pound of feedlot beef. Eighty percent of the corn the U.S. grows, and over 95% of the oats, are fed to livestock, not humans. "
quote[6]="The University of California estimates that a healthy acre of prime land can grow 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef."
quote[7]="Some studies say that it can take 500 times more land to make a pound of beef than a pound of vegetables."
quote[8]="According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American consumes nearly twice his or her weight in meat each year."
quote[9]="During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant&#146;s hometown of Hamburg, where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat."
quote[10]="The ancient Romans raised dormice, which were prized as a delicacy by the wealthiest epicures."
quote[11]="Eating fish at least once a week cuts the risk of sudden cardiac death in men in half, according to researchers."
quote[12]="Bats constitute one-quarter of all mammals on Earth, and that they are popular fare in Africa, Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific (where the meat is traditionally cooked in underground pits)."
quote[13]="Tuna was first canned in 1903 by California sardine canners interested in expanding their market&#151;and the first tuna casserole recipe appeared on the back on a Campbell&#146;s mushroom soup can over 50 years ago."
quote[14]="In the 1920s, the retail price of chicken topped $10 per pound in 1994 dollars, and cookbooks advised homemakers on how to substitute veal for chicken. Chicken was a seasonal meat, produced from eggs laid in the spring. This is the origin of the term spring chicken."
quote[15]="The word eskimo comes from the Algonquin word meaning &#147;eater of raw flesh,&#148; and was used by the Algonquins to describe the Native Alaskans."
quote[16]="Insects provide 10% of the protein consumed worldwide."
quote[17]="In colonial New York City, hogs were notorious for rampaging through the grain fields of the city farmers. A permanent wall was then put up on the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan. The street that eventually ran along this wall was named Wall Street."
quote[18]="The enlisted men in the U.S. Army used to receive the shoulder and leg cuts of pork while the officers received the top loin cuts. Those who received these superior cuts were said to be &#147;living high on the hog.&#148;"
quote[19]="Quote from President Truman: &#147;No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.&#148;"


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