What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers by Andrew Thompson

Author:Andrew Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Reference
ISBN: 9781569758144
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2010-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

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200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers

It’s true that chewing gum does resist the body’s attempts to break it down, but it takes the same amount of time to pass through the digestive system as most foods . A large percentage of the gum is not digested by the body and so passes through relatively unchanged . The same thing happens with foods containing cel ulose, or fiber .

While there is a very low risk of chewing gum remaining lodged in the body, it is general y advisable not to swallow it .

? WHY DID KENTUCKY FRIED

CHICKEN CHANGE ITS NAME

TO KFC?

In 1991 when the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC, it was suggested at the time that this move was in response to a study carried out by the University of New Hampshire that proved that real chickens weren’t being used in the food . Instead, so the story goes, genetical y modified animals with no beaks or feathers were being used in order to save on costs . Because of this, it was said, government regulations dictated that such mutated animals could not be marketed as chickens and so the company was force to omit the word “chicken” from its name, as well as from advertisements and menus . This, of course, is a myth . No such study was undertaken and the claim has no basis in fact .

There were a number of genuine reasons behind the name change . One was to lessen the emphasis on the word

“chicken,” because the company was at that point providing a more diverse menu, while another was to remove the word 1 3 3

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