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- Food Trivia: Guinness : Ireland's most well-known drink is Guinness. Guinness is a dark, heavy beer with a good half-inch creamy head. Its particular taste and texture depends on how it is stored and poured.
- Food Trivia: Drinking in Chad, Africa : For religious reasons, Muslims inhabitants of Chad do not drink alcohol. In the south of Chad, however, people enjoy beer brewed made from millet. This brewed beer is called Billi-Billi when it is made from red millet and Coshate when it is made from white millet. Spirits made from distilled millet alcohol are known as Arki. Gala Beer is also manufactured in Chad.
Chad is a resource-poor, landlocked country, bordered by Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Libya. It is one of the poorest countries on the African continent.
- Food Trivia: Honduras : Pineapples are grown by many Hondurans in their gardens In Honduras, every part of the pineapple is used for something. The skin is used to make tea, Chicha or vinegar for preserving vegetables ; the fruit is used to make juice, jam or pies; and the tops are put in buckets of water until they sprout roots and can be replanted in the garden.
In Gambia, food play an important part of ceremonial occasions or celebrations, such as naming ceremonies, betrothals, marriages, and deaths. At these occasions, meat is served along with Jollof rice and fruit. The more food it is served during these occassions, the more successful the occasions are.