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
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.
Taco Bell made a commercial featuring 25 people actually named “Ronald McDonald,” all of whom endorsed their brand.
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
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.
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.
Elementary students from Joliet, Illinois, successfully lobbied to have popcorn designated as the state’s official snack food in 2003.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
Early Orange Crush had orange pulp added during bottling to give the soda the appearance of freshly squeezed juice.
President George H. W. Bush banned broccoli from being served on Air Force One and at the White House because he simply did not like the vegetable.
Dandelion flowers and greens are actually edible, can even be eaten raw, and are chock-full of nutrients!
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.
It’s estimated that of the 100,000 species of mushrooms worldwide, only about 100 are toxic to humans.
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.
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.
Nutella was invented during World War II when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
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.
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.
After selling KFC, Colonel Sanders still made surprise visits to franchises to check the quality and would call them out if the gravy was not up to his standards.
In 1995, the Empire State Building was lit in blue to commemorate the launch of blue M&Ms, a new color selected by more than 11 million voters in a national campaign.
