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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
Until selective breeding made them taste better, watermelons tasted bitter and were harvested only for their water content.
Dipping bread in olive oil and balsamic vinegar isn’t a traditional Italian practice; it actually originated in San Francisco.
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.
During World War I, hamburgers in the U.S. were nicknamed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German-sounding name.
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.”
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.
The period in “Dr. Pepper” was removed in the 1950s to avoid confusion caused by the font, which made it look like “Di: Pepper.”
In the 1990s, Taco Bell made a soft taco tortilla with a 9-month shelf life, which NASA later used for space missions.
Eating bananas near bee hives may provoke aggression, as the banana scent resembles an alarm pheromone bees release when defending the hive.
Kinder Surprise Eggs are banned in the United States due to an FDA law from 1938 that forbids any confection with “non-nutritive objects” inside.
Cranberries are native to North America and are one of only three fruits native to the continent that are grown commercially.
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.
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.
The word “vegan” was coined in 1944 by combining the first three and last two letters of “vegetarian,” symbolizing “the beginning and end of vegetarian.”
The popular refreshing drink 7-Up used to contain lithium nitrate, a mood stabilizer often used in psychiatric treatments, and was marketed as a hangover cure.
According to the FDA, Kraft Singles are labeled as “pasteurized prepared cheese product” due to containing under 51% real cheese.
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.
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.
Smuckers Uncrustables sends all of the crusts they cut off their sandwiches to be made into animal feed.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
Although often thought to be Italian, pepperoni was invented by Italian‑American immigrants in New York City in 1919.
