Interesting Facts: 
 1/2 money spent on food is used at restaurants 
 96% of school children could identify Ronald McDonald 
 Typical American consumes 3 hamburgers and four orders of French fries a week 
 Studies suggest that until the age of 6, roughly 80% of children's dreams are about animals 
 Teenier beanie babies sold 10x the normal number of happy meals in 1997 
 A medium coke that sells for $1.29 contains roughly 9 cents worth of syrup 
 umami - taste discovered by Japanese researchers - a rich and full sense of deliciousness triggered by amino acids in foods such as mushrooms, potatoes and shellfish 
 One steer will eat 3,000 pounds of grain to gain 400 pounds of weight and dump 50 pounds of excrement every day. (150) 
 In 1992 Sweden banned all television advertising directed at children under the age of twelve.