Despite common belief, when you are eating shrimp 'tails' and lobster 'tails', you are in fact eating the abdomen of the creature. The real tail is made up of the inedible fins at the end of the abdomen. Also despite common belief, the 'vein' running down the back of shrimp 'tails' is not a vein, but is the intestines of the shrimp.

Guam and the Mariana islands have one of the highest rates of consumption of Spam in the world. Each person consumes an an average of 16 tins of spam a year. The residents like Spam so much that it is even featured on the menus of McDonald's and Burger King. These islands are such an important market for Spam that Hormel, the maker of Spam, has threatened legal action against a local newspaper for writing about the negative effects of a high spam diet.

Campbell's "Chicken Noodle" soup wasn't always one of Campbell's most popular soups, and it didn't start out as "Chicken Noodle" soup either. Introduced in 1934, it was originally called "Chicken with Noodles" and enjoyed only moderate success. Later that same year an innocent misstatement on the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio program caused sales to sky-rocket. Amos misread his copy and accidentally called the product "Chicken Noodle" soup. Suddenly the soup company started receiving large orders for their "new" product. The soup was formally renamed "Chicken Noodle" after the erroneous turn of phrase caused high demand for the soup. Today, Campbell's uses nearly a million miles of noodles in the production of their Chicken Noodle soup every year. That is enough noodles to circle the equator over 40 times.

Starburst was created by the European confectionery Mars Incorporated in 1960 and was originally named Opal Fruits. In 1976, they were introduced to the United States as Starburst. The brand Opal Fruits was phased out in the UK and Ireland in 1998 due to pressure for global branding. For the tenth anniversary of the naming of Opal Fruits to Starburst in the UK, Mars Inc. brought the name back in May 2008, to last for only three months, in the original flavors and packaging and without the artificial colors and flavorings now used in global manufacturing.