Is anyone else feeling hungry? Just me, hmm… well, these food and drink facts are gonna leave you hungry (or thirsty) for more!
Here at The Fact Site, we have rounded up the most interesting facts about your favorite foods or beverages, and you can see them all right here!
From strange fruit & vegetables to your favorite dairy products, these fun facts should please your appetite.
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Food & Drink Facts
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
In 1896, bars in New York often served the same sandwich to different customers all day as a loophole to avoid laws that required them to serve meals with alcohol sales.
The distinctive taste of bubblegum is derived from a blend of flavors and spices, including banana, pineapple, cinnamon, cloves, and wintergreen. Each brand uses its own unique recipe.
Vernors Ginger Ale is the oldest soda still being sold. It was created by Detroit pharmacist James Vernor in 1866.
The “drink eight glasses of water a day” rule isn’t well supported by science. Most people can just drink water when thirsty and increase it if they’re older, active, or in hot weather.
In the 1980s, Pringles’ founder, Fredric Baur, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.
Warren Buffett said in the 2017 HBO documentary “Becoming Warren Buffett” that he eats McDonald’s every morning, choosing one of three items that never cost more than $3.17.
When Boston went into lockdown after the 2013 Marathon bombing, authorities asked Dunkin’ Donuts to remain open to supply food and drinks to police and emergency responders.
Early Orange Crush had orange pulp added during bottling to give the soda the appearance of freshly squeezed juice.
“Pub” is short for public house, which means that an establishment is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking on the premises.
Cotton Candy grapes are a naturally bred hybrid that took over eight years to develop by crossbreeding grape varieties to achieve a flavor similar to cotton candy.
Unpeeled oranges float in water, while peeled oranges sink. This surprising phenomenon is due to the increased buoyancy of orange peel, which contains small pockets of air.
Walmart found that sales of strawberry Pop-Tarts spike significantly in the days leading up to a hurricane, increasing by about seven times their normal rate.
About 4% of global cheese production is stolen annually, making cheese the world’s most stolen food.
Ocean Spray Cranberry cocktail comes from cooperatively owned cranberry farms where 100% of the profits from the products are given back to the farmers.
Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future by interpreting the shapes, patterns, and textures of cheese.
