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... that Steem peanut butter contained as much caffeine per serving as two cups of coffee?
... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
... that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield, England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
... that the Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?
... that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
... that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake?
... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
... that a Vancouver TV station was intended to stop the "$1,500 cup of coffee"?
... that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?

Food & drink DYK

... that Gleaners Food Bank has served more than 700 million pounds (320 million kg) of food in Indiana?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on edible landscaping?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
... that Foodbank Canterbury receives products from a prison?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
... that the New York Savings Bank Building later became "The Grand Palais of Rugs" and the "Temple of Food"?
... that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
... that in November 2022, Leicester City Council used the Food Act 1984 in combination with a royal charter of 1199 to levy a charge on the organisers of two Christmas light switching-on events?
... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?
... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for "benefiting hundreds of millions of consumers with greater access to nutritious vegetables"?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan?
... that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?

Restaurant DYK

... that a New York pop-up restaurant opened by Louisa Shafia served stews and rice dishes described in a review as a "Persian-tapas gateway into the ancient cuisine"?
... that after the original Stonewall Inn closed in 1969, its space was used by a bagel shop, a Chinese restaurant, and a clothing store?
... that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco, which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States?
... that Mayling Oey-Gardiner went from being a University of Indonesia clerk to a full professor?
... that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
... that after Mary Gardiner Horsford died, her husband married her sister Phoebe?
... that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa?
... that Feastogether launched a restaurant that was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened in 2023?
... that Malinau Kota, Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency, is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
... that when her local cafe was in lockdown, Kate Baer wrote her bestselling poems in her van in the cafe parking lot?
... that the restaurant CosMc's is named after a character from McDonaldland?
... that when Seattle sandwich restaurant Paseo abruptly closed, fans left flowers and lit candles?
... that Alan Rosen once sold 2,400 cheesecakes in four minutes to television shoppers?
... that guests to the Delmonico's restaurant at 56 Beaver Street touched a pair of columns at the entrance for good luck?
... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
... that Albert Bahhuth fled the Lebanese Civil War and owned a Subway franchise before being named an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles?
... that an Iowa TV station operates from a former McDonald's restaurant?
... that in 1990, Simon Rimmer bought an existing vegetarian restaurant with his business partner and taught himself to cook – in that order?
... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
... that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon, including the Nostrana, which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni"?
... that Mira, a Hong Kong YouTuber, was asked by the Korea Tourism Organization to be a spokeswoman for Michelin-starred restaurants one year after she started her channel?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that Dublin restaurant Deli 613 imports frozen bagels from New York?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?

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