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From strange fruit & vegetables to your favorite dairy products, these fun facts should please your appetite.
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Food & Drink Facts
It’s estimated that of the 100,000 species of mushrooms worldwide, only about 100 are toxic to humans.
Doritos were engineered with an optimized mix of fat, salt, acids, and fast-melting ingredients that trigger the brain’s reward system, which makes them surprisingly hard to stop eating.
In the 1980s, Pringles’ founder, Fredric Baur, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.
Belarusians consume more potatoes per capita than anyone else in the world, with the average person in Belarus eating 341-375 pounds (155-170 kg) every year.
During World War I, hamburgers in the U.S. were nicknamed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German-sounding name.
The Milky Way bar exists in two versions. The global version is sold as 3 Musketeers in the United States, and the U.S. version is sold internationally as the Mars bar.
In 2017, 70 students drank so much alcohol at a Maryland house party that the air inside the house registered 0.01% on a breathalyzer.
In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed USDA regulations that would have allowed condiments like ketchup to be classified as vegetables; however, this move was never implemented.
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
South Korea is the second-leading consumer of Spam. Spam was introduced there during WWII, providing much-needed food for those who were starving.
A survey conducted by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy found that 7% of American adults, about 16.4 million people, believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Flights can sometimes be delayed by something as small as a broken coffee machine, since safety rules require all onboard equipment to be working before takeoff.
“Pub” is short for public house, which means that an establishment is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking on the premises.
Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidation and maintain crispness, ensuring the chips stay fresh and unspoiled.
Dipping bread in olive oil and balsamic vinegar isn’t a traditional Italian practice; it actually originated in San Francisco.
Kosher salt has larger, coarser crystals and usually lacks iodine and anti-caking agents, unlike table salt, which is finely ground, often iodized, and includes anti-caking agents.
Raw salmon sushi gained popularity in Japan only after the Norwegian salmon industry began a marketing campaign in the 1980s and 1990s to sell its parasite-free farmed Atlantic salmon.
Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish are made by the same manufacturer, and red Sour Patch Kids are essentially Swedish Fish with sour sugar.
The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is “at least 35 percent cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread.”
Humans have been using yeast to produce alcohol for over 13,000 years, with evidence of beer brewing dating back to 11,000 BC in modern-day Israel.
