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
Sauerkraut sounded far too German for U.S. patriots during World War I, who instead nicknamed it “Liberty Cabbage.”
In 2012, Papa John’s was sued for sending late-night spam texts and settled for $16.5 million after people demanded over $250 million in damages.
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.
Thomas Sullivan’s 1908 tea samples came in silk bags, which customers put in hot water to brew tea, leading to the accidental invention of the tea bag.
Red Lobster once suffered a loss of over $3 million from an “Endless Crab” promotion after an executive underestimated just how much crab customers could consume.
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.
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.
Taco Bell made a commercial featuring 25 people actually named “Ronald McDonald,” all of whom endorsed their brand.
The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the world is Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain, founded in 1725!
A loofah sponge is the dried interior of a luffa gourd from the cucumber family, which you can grow in your garden. When the fruit is young, it’s edible and cooked much like zucchini.
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.
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.
Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future by interpreting the shapes, patterns, and textures of cheese.
Beeturia is the term used for when your pee turns a reddish-pink color after eating too much beetroot.
In the 1875 Dublin whiskey fire, 13 people died not from the flames but from alcohol poisoning after whiskey from burning warehouses flooded the streets and was drunk by residents.
Apple seeds and the pits of cherries, apricots, and peaches contain cyanide, but you’d need to consume a large quantity for it to make you sick or be harmful.
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.
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
