Page 22 - Boca Exposure - September '23

Page 22, Boca Exposure
Dining Out: Hungry Al’s Little-Known

Fun Facts About Food And Restaurants!

It’s the time of year when • Hawaiian pizza was first served by a Greek man • Subway was sued by customers for making their foot-
Hungry Al is doing some traveling. living in Canada. long subs only 11 inches in length. It was evidently settled
Hopefully, you will excuse me for • The grill marks on fast food burgers aren’t necessarily out of court.
not having a restaurant review real. They are sometimes put on artificially by the factory. • The World’s Largest Restaurant is in Syria, called Bawabet
this month, but I have a few new • Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas’s daughter’s name was Dimashq Restaurant. It has 6,014 seats and a 580,000-square-
ones in the upcoming season. In not Wendy, but Melinda Lou. foot dining area.
lieu of a standard review, I put • New York City is the most Michelin-starred city in the • What’s the most expensive burger? You’ll find it at De
together a few fun facts about food, United States Daltons in the Netherlands for $6,000. It will contain Wagyu
restaurants and dining out. Enjoy your summer! • White chocolate is not chocolate. It’s really just a mixture beef and Beluga caviar.
• The busiest day of the year for restaurants is Mother’s of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin and cocoa butter. • French fries originated in Belgium, not France! They are
Day. • Millennials spend 44 percent of their food budget at only called French fries because they are French cut.
• The oldest American restaurant still in service today is restaurants. • It was invented by a Texan who used “German’s Chocolate”
Boston’s very own Union Oyster House, founded in 1826. • The oldest tavern in America is White Horse Tavern in (a baking chocolate) named after the creator, Sam German.
Newport, R.I., opened in 1673. • 49 percent of Americans over 20 eat a sandwich every day.
• The largest toy distributor is McDonald’s, thanks to their • A typical ear of corn has an even number of rows, which
Book Review from page 21 Happy Meal sales. is usually 16.

When word reaches the league that the nesting sites at
a business’s large parking lot (which had been thoughtfully
roped off from cars in advance by the company’s
compassionate management) are showing signs of activity
in the eggs, we join Sy, Matt and Natasha who drive to the
sites and collect the dozens of baby turtle hatchlings – each SECOND OPINIONS
only the size of a quarter coin – and bring them back to
the rescue center where they can be cared for until they are
big enough to be released into their proper habitat without
running the risk of either road traffic or attack by predators
because of their tiny size.
With Sy and Matt, we will witness several important
releases into the wild, including the hatchlings from the
parking lot – and one very tender and emotional gift of
freedom for one very special turtle, Nibbles, in the keeping
of a promise made a decade earlier – for turtles ready to face
lives that can last for half a century or more, long after Sy SAVE
and Matt and Alexxia and Natasha are gone. It is awesome
to contemplate how many lives have already been saved.
So when at last Sy devotes herself to reflecting inwardly
on life and time and reveals her own deeply personal feelings
about the meaning of it all, we are privileged to understand
more about her … and perhaps about ourselves. LIVES

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