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1. Nowadays, sweet tea is sold at almost every fast-food restaurant for a steal. However, southern sweet tea was originally used to display wealth. Tea, ice, and sugar were all very expensive at the time.
2. It's assessed that the New York Harbor used to be home to half of the world's clam flexibly. Ellis Island and Liberty Island were known as Little Oyster and Big Oyster, respectively, because of that.
3. Lobster wasn’t always such a delicacy. During the 1800s, taking care of lobster to detainees was viewed as pitiless and abnormal discipline. Lobsters were referred to as the “cockroaches of the sea”.
4. Imagine trying to make a sandwich in space. It would take two people! For this reason, NASA has used flour tortillas in space shuttles since the 1980s.
5. Boston is home to The Union Oyster House, the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States, which opened in 1826.
6. The holes in Swiss cheese, known as eyes, have been a source of aggravation in the past for commercial cheese slicers. In 2000, the FDA regulated the holes in Swiss cheese to be between 3/8 and 13/16 of an inch in diameter.
7. Flamingo tongues were an ancient Roman delicacy.
8. Ruth Graves Wake field invented the chocolate chip cookie around 1938. She sold her recipe to Nestle for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate.
9. Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
10. A janitor at the Frito-Lay plant concocted Flamin' Hot Cheetos. He is now an Executive at Pepsi Co North America.
11. Figs rely upon wasps to make their seeds and appropriate their dust. In turn, the fig tree acts as a womb where the fig wasps can reproduce.
12. Nearly all varieties of corn have an even number of rows.
13. Baby carrots were invented almost by accident, when a farmer got sick of throwing away his damaged and misshapen carrots.
14. Most wasabi consumed is just colored horseradish.
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16. The most expensive pizza in the world comes from Salerno, Italy and costs $12,000. It takes 72 hours to make.
17. Vanilla is the second most expensive spice in the world (after saffron) because its production is so labor-intensive.
18. When you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger nuts will rise to the top.
19. Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
20. Ben Cohen, one of the founders and tasters of Ben & Jerry's suffers from a condition called anosmia limiting his sense of smell. This is the reason why their ice cream is so rich and contains other sensory features such as colors and textures.
21. Olive oil counterfeiting is a big issue in Italy. Many imported bottles actually don't live up to their "extra virgin" claim. The business has been corrupted by the Mafia, which makes an estimated 16 billion dollars a year in tampering with Italian food products!
22. It’s not your fault that you crave chocolate. Blame your primate ancestors. Humans are born craving sugar. A great many years back, primates made due on sugar-rich organic product. These animals evolved to like riper fruit because it had a higher sugar content than unripe fruit and therefore supplied more energy.
23. Coconut water can be used as blood plasma in emergency situations.
24. The phrase, “You’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.
25. The most American of condiments, Ketchup, isn’t even American. It’s Asian.
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27. You are 99.9% genetically similar to the person next to you. You also share 60% of your DNA with a banana.
28. Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans. Humans have 46, potatoes have 48.
29. The Lollipop was named after one of the most famous racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.
30. Cooking was once considered the woman’s job, but today there are more men in the culinary profession than women.
31. Canola oil was initially called rapeseed oil, however rechristened by the Canadian oil industry in 1978. "Canola" is short for "Canadian Oil, Low Acid."
32. Onion is Latin for “large pearl.” Onions, with their ringed layers, represented eternity and were found in the eyes of King Ramses IV who died in 1160 B.C.
33. Kale is all the rage these days, but before 2013 the biggest buyer of kale is not who you would expect… it was Pizza Hut. They used kale as a decorative garnish for their salad bars.
34. The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were harvested, not the year of bottling.
35. Americans eat three pounds of nutty spread per individual consistently. That’s enough peanut butter to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon!
36. Some people swear that you can save a corked bottle of wine with just a penny… literally! Drop a clean penny in the glass of wine and swirl it around. When you remove it, the wine should taste much better.
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37. The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not. It takes about a third of a bushel of apples to make one gallon of cider.
38. The Popsicle was accidentally invented by an 11-year-old in 1905. He mixed sugary soda powder with water and left it out overnight. It was a cold evening, so the mixture froze. He woke up to the discovery and devoured the icy treat by licking it off the wooden stirrer.
39. The motivation behind why peppers taste hot is a direct result of a substance compound called capsaicin. When you bite into your nachos and hit a jalapeño, the chemical binds to your sensory nerves and tricks them into thinking your mouth is actually being burned. The hottest pepper in the world is fittingly called “dragon’s breath”.
40. Almonds aren’t actually nuts at all. They are the seeds of a flower and are directly related to the botanical families of orchids and roses.
41. The inner part of bread surrounded by the crust is called the “crumb”. That is why small bits of this part of the bread are referred to as “crumbs”.
42. Tired of shedding tears over a silly onion? Stick it in the freezer for 15 minutes prior to cutting. The cold inhibits the release of eye irritating chemicals.
43. There is an average of 200 tiny seeds on every strawberry. They are the only fruit with seeds that grow on the outside.
44. Coffee may have been discovered by a goat. There is a popular Ethiopian legend that tells the story of a goat herder finding his goats frolicking and full of energy after eating from a coffee shrub. He tried it for himself and discovered the same effect.
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45. There are roughly 350 diverse pasta shapes the world over. Italians will tell you that each shape and size serves a different culinary purpose. Do you research before preparing your next bowl of pasta!
46. When a cranberry is ripe, it will bounce like a rubber ball.
47. A cluster of bananas is called a “hand”. A single banana is justly called a “finger”.
48. In Ancient Rome, a soldier’s pay consisted in part of salt. It became known as solarium argentum then, or “salary” as we call it today.
49. It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
50. Potato chips were invented in response to a customer complaint. Chef George Crum had a customer complain that his potatoes were too thick and soggy. Incredibly frustrated, George cut them as thinly as possible, fried them until they were crispy and sent them back to the customer.
51. The first food ever to be microwaved was popcorn. Great idea! The second was an egg which exploded in the face of the experimenter. Not such a great idea.
52. There are over 87,000 drink combinations at Starbucks!
53. Baskin-Robbins once made ketchup-flavored ice cream for a friend who put ketchup on everything.
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55. Gatorade was invented by the University of Florida’s physicians to fight player fatigue for one specific team: The Florida Gators.
56. Legend has it that sandwiches were invented in 1762 so that the Earl of Sandwich could keep gambling. His cook put some beef between two slices bread and the rest is history. Today, Americans eat more than 300 million sandwiches a day.
57. German Chocolate Cake doesn’t hail from Germany. In 1852, a Texas woman sent in a cake recipe to a Dallas newspaper using “Baker’s German Sweet Chocolate” baking bar. The recipe, known as “German’s Chocolate Cake” was so popular that sales for the chocolate bar spiked. Somewhere along the way the apostrophe and “s” was dropped.
58. You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.
59. You have heard that chicken soup is good for the soul, but it was once considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
60. Children may claim to fear vegetables to avoid them, but the actual fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.
61. An 18-ounce jar of peanut butter contains about 850 peanuts.
62. The M’s in M & M’s stand for Mars & Murrie, the co-creators of the candy. The chocolates debuted in 1941 and were invented as a means for soldiers to enjoy chocolate without it melting in their hands.
63. Ben and Jerry’s receives about 13,000 flavor suggestions a year. They read them all.
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64. Waffle cones were invented at the World’s Fair in 1904 when an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes. He enlisted the help from the waffle pastry vendor next door to create a new “dish”.
65. Carmine, a food dye used in many bright red food products, is manufactured from an insect called the cochineal.
66. Refried beans are only fried once. The reason for this misconception is a translation error. Frijoles refritos actually translates as “well fried beans”.
67. Canned food was invented in 1810, but the can opener did not come for another 45 years. Canned food would come with instructions to “cut around the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer”.
68. Honey is the only food with an (almost) eternal shelf life. It will not rot and it can last up to 3000 years. Modern archeologists, excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, have often found pots of honey, thousands of years old, perfectly preserved.
69. The phrase "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" came from a 1944 marketing campaign to sell more cereal. Theeditor was John Harvey Kellogg, co-inventor of the flaked cereal.
70. The number of jars of Nutella sold in a year could cover The Great Wall of China eight times. Sounds like a delicious idea!
71. Hawaii is the only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially. It is the only state that meets the proper growing conditions of high altitudes, tropical climates and rich soil.
72. Eating poppy seed bread before a drug test can get you fired. Testing can rule out heroin, but not other opiates.
73. Twinkies were originally filled with banana cream and were sold that way for years. It wasn’t until a banana shortage during World War II that the company was forced to switch to the vanilla-cream filling that we know and love today.
74. You cannot taste food until it is mixed with saliva.
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75. Mangoes can get a sunburn.
76. Croissants are not a French food, they're Austrian.
77. Grossed out by your in-flight meal? It may be due to the preparation, but we can’t blame it all on the chef. In the air, our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent. That’s the equivalent of having a bad cold.
78. The “overbite” dates back to the adoption of the table knife and fork about 250 years ago. When we started cutting food into small portions, our jaws changed. In China, the overbite emerged about 900 years sooner with the invention of chopsticks.
79. Meat was so plentiful on the Lewis and Clark expedition that each man ate about 9 pounds of meat a day!
80. The largest restaurant, Damascus Gate, is in Syria and has 6,014 seats.
81. In 2016, a street food vendor in Singapore was awarded a Michelin star.
82. In Britain, there was a lawsuit that took place trying to prove that Pringles are not really potato chips because they do not have enough potato content.
83. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
84. Although Italy is synonymous with tomato sauces, Italian chefs didn’t start cooking with the tomato until the 16th century. In the early 1500s when tomatoes were first imported, they were thought to be poisonous and were used solely as decoration.
85. In 2012, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck off the coast of Italy that was so well preserved even the food was intact in its storage jars.
86. Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
87. Wint-O-Green Lifesavers will spark when you bite them in the dark. It is a miniaturized version of lighting.
88. Tiramisu means “pick me up” or “cheer me up” in Italian.
89. We don’t often think of yogurt as spoiled milk, but that’s exactly what it is. Many historians attribute yogurt to Central Asia around 6,000 B.C. as a result of storing milk by primitive methods in warm climates.
90. The beloved Pez candies were marketed more than 70 years ago in Vienna as a cigarette substitute. It obtained its name from the German word for Peppermint, PfeffErmiZ.
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91. Surprisingly, the cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist. However, cotton candy isn’t a modern invention. It dates back to the 15th century when Italian cooks spun sugar then draped it around wooden broom handles to create sculptures.
92. The term 'soft drink' was first used to describe drinks without alcohol. However, Russia did not consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously considered a soft drink.
93. Casu marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live maggots inside.
94. Popcorn isn’t the most popular movie snack everywhere. In Colombia, dried ants are a popular alternative, while Korean moviegoers enjoy snacking on a bag of dried cuttlefish.
95. The World Health Organization has classified processed meats, including ham, salami, sausages and hot dogs, as a Group 1 carcinogen.
96. No fridge? No problem, if you have a frog handy! Before refrigerators were invented, Russians and Finns would put live frogs in their milk to preserve it. Frogs have peptides in their skin that kill bacteria.
97. Banana “trees” are actually giant herbs. Their trunks are not made of wood, but tightened leaves.
98. In addition to the 14 chemicals thrown into the mix when making McDonald’s French fries, they are sugar coated before being fried to ensure a golden color.
99. It is estimated that the average child will eat 1,500 Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches by high school graduation.
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