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
Space apparently smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes. This smell lingers on the spacesuits of astronauts after they perform spacewalks.
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.
In 2019, it was reported that bubble tea shops were so profitable that even the Yakuza were getting in on the business.
About 4% of global cheese production is stolen annually, making cheese the world’s most stolen food.
The can opener wasn’t invented until almost 50 years after the can. Earlier methods to open cans included the use of a hammer and chisel.
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.
In 1886, Coca-Cola sold nine servings of its drinks per day in its first year; now it has over 2.2 billion servings consumed daily worldwide, which is about 25,500 every second.
Vernors Ginger Ale is the oldest soda still being sold. It was created by Detroit pharmacist James Vernor in 1866.
Ketchup started as a British attempt to replicate a Chinese fermented fish sauce called “kê-tsiap” before evolving into the tomato-based condiment we know today.
The first recorded use of the term “chips” to describe fried potatoes was in Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Tale of Two Cities.”
During World War I, hamburgers in the U.S. were nicknamed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German-sounding name.
It costs around $290,000 per year in fees to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City. This does not include other cart-related expenses.
Several of the “Real Facts” on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect, or exaggerated.
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.
Hormel Foods, the creator of SPAM, kept a file of the hate mail they received from U.S. soldiers who had to eat the canned meat product while deployed overseas.
Elementary students from Joliet, Illinois, successfully lobbied to have popcorn designated as the state’s official snack food in 2003.
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
There are over 196 different flavors of Pringles. This includes mushroom and cream, pecan pie, and white chocolate peppermint.
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.
Cranberries are native to North America and are one of only three fruits native to the continent that are grown commercially.
