Food Tool for the Week: July 4^th

In honor of the July 4^th Holiday, I thought I would share a bit of trivia. Everyone have a safe holiday weekend both in your travels and the food you eat!

More than 1 in 4 of the hot dogs and sausages consumed on the Fourth originated in Iowa.

About 50 - 50. Are the odds that the beans in the side dish of baked beams coma from North Dakota or Michigan. These two states produced 49 percent of the nations dry, edible beans in 2006.

Over Half of the Corn on the cob ,another popular Fourth of July side dish, produced nationally comes from the states of Florida, California, Georgia and New York.

Nearly half of the nation's potatoes were produced in Idaho or Washington

About 835 pounds of watermelon. Florida is the state that leads the nation in Watermelon production. Florida produced about 835 pounds of watermelon in 2006. The other leading watermelon states are California, Georgia and Texas, which each produce about 600 million pounds of this dessert fruit.

More than 74 million Americans reported that they took part in a barbecue in the previous year. There's a good chance that the barbecue took place on the Fourth of July.

Fireworks. $206.3 million was the dollar value of fireworks imported to the United States from China. This represents the bulk of all U.S. fireworks imported.

Flags: $5.3 million was the dollar value of U.S. Flags that were imported to the United States. The vast majority of these flags ($5 million), were U.S. flags made in China.