Queen Elizabeth II is a beauty! She will visit us tomorrow, which is always a pleasure!
FUN FACTS ABOUT QE II
FOOD & BEVERAGE
Consumption and Stores
DAILY ANNUALLY
Tea Bags 2,500 bags 912,500 bags
Coffee 100 lbs 16.5 tons
Cooking oil 50 gallons 18,250 gallons
Eggs 3,200 1,168,000
Milk 230 gallons 83,950 gallons
Butter 350 lbs 58 tons
Breakfast cereal 770 packets 281,050 packets
Marmalade / jam 553 portions 201,050 portions
Bananas 230 lbs 38 tons
Strawberries 125 lbs 20 tons
Fruit juice 640 gallons 233,600 gallons
Tomatoes 120 lbs 43,800 lbs
Smoked salmon 30 kilos 11 tons
Caviar 6.6 lbs 2,409 lbs
Lobster 116 lbs 42,340 lbs
Strip loin 450 lbs 164,250 lbs
Flour 753 lbs 122 tons
Rice 380 lbs 62 tons
Potatoes 694 lbs 62 tons
Saffron 1.5 packets 547.5 packets
Beer 2,400 bottles 5,309 gallons
Spirits 180 litres 65,700 litres
Champagne 200 bottles 73,000 bottles
Wine 370 bottles 135,050 bottles
Soft drinks 820 bottles 299,300 bottles
Cigarettes 1000 packets 365,000 packets
Cigars 41 boxes 12,425 boxes
Doilies Over 2 million
Napkins and Cocktail Stirrers Over 1 million each
Alumium Foil 125 miles
QE2 sends all its used cooking oil ashore for reconstituting into animal feed.
277 metres of cling film is used every year, enough to go around the Queen Elizabeth 2 nearly 731 times.
Heineken and Becks together account for almost 50% of the beer consumed.
Pound for pound, the most expensive food item on board is saffron (2.5 times the value of Beluga caviar).
The number of tea bags used each day would supply a family for an entire year.
To eat QE2's daily consumption of breakfast cereal, two people would have to eat at least one packet a day for more than a year.
Enough fruit juice is used in one year to fill up QE2's swimming pools nearly 8 times.
Approximately 600,000 litres of beverage are consumed annually.
On a six-day transatlantic crossing, the following beverages are consumed
Gin 600 bottles (7 brands)
Rum 240 bottles (5 brands)
Vodka 129 bottles (3 brands)
Brandy 240 bottles (10 brands)
Liqueurs 360 bottles (18 types)
Sherry 240 bottles (5 brands)
Port 120 bottles (4 brands)
Fruit Juice 25,720 cans
The ship carries:
203 different wines from 11 countries and 4 continents
171 spirits and liqueurs
37 champagne labels
59 brands of cigarettes
21 brands of cigars.
The kitchens and dining rooms have:
glassware 51,000 items
crockery / dishes 64,000 items
cutlery 35,850 items
kitchenware 7,921 items
tableware 64,531 items
(condiment sets, serving trays and a variety of other pieces in silver and stainless steel).
Linen consumption on a transatlantic voyage:
tablecloths 2,932
blankets 4,300
oven cloths 1,000
sheets 11,600
pillow cases 3,100
laundry bags 3,250
Hmm - did we really want to know all this?
