Fun Facts About Chicken & Beer

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Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.

Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 pounds

Amount of cholesterol in chicken: The same as beef, 25 mg per ounce

Part of female chicken's body that produces eggs: Ovaries

Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken: 26 inches

Elvis was known to call up Col. Saunders every so often around 3AM and demand that the Colonel personally hand deliver a 15 piece bucket of fried chicken to Graceland. The Col. Harlan Saunders would usually reply "Dadgummit Elvis, I told ya never to mix the blues and yellows!" and then hang up.

Chickens can actually fly great distances, it's just that they are incredibly lazy, and prefer to walk most of the time.

Of all the countries stationed in Bosnia, only the United States forbade it's soldiers from consuming alcohol.

Many high school cafeterias in some European countries serve alcohol to those students who wish to drink.

Early recipes for beer included such ingredients as poppy seeds, mushrooms, aromatics, honey, sugar, bay leaves, butter, bread crumbs and even raw meat!

Women who drink receive about three and one-half percent higher wages than do abstainers.

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History ---Beer has always been a popular beverage because it does not deteriorate during long periods of storage and is adaptable to all climates. With various names and in many forms it has been produced from the earliest times. It was made in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece. At first brewed in the home or in monasteries, beer had become a commercial product in Europe by the late Middle Ages. In modern times it is a staple large-scale manufacture in almost all industrialized countries, especially in Great Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United States. In the New World, the art of brewing was practiced by the Native Americans before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. The first Europeans to brew beer in America were the Virginia colonists of 1587. Manufacture of beer was encouraged in early colonial laws in America as a means of reducing the consumption of stronger alcoholic beverages. This traditional policy was generally followed in the laws of the various states and the federal government until World War I. Under wartime restrictions the brewing of beer was first limited and then prohibited. Beer containing more than 0.5 percent alcohol was included in the prohibition of intoxicating beverages by legislation under the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Congress legalized beer containing 3.5 percent alcohol in March 1933, and eight months later the Prohibition amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment.

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