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
Smuckers Uncrustables sends all of the crusts they cut off their sandwiches to be made into animal feed.
Until selective breeding made them taste better, watermelons tasted bitter and were harvested only for their water content.
In Japan, some vending machines provide free drinking water and beverages during natural disasters, such as earthquakes or typhoons.
During World War I, hamburgers in the U.S. were nicknamed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German-sounding name.
Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish are made by the same manufacturer, and red Sour Patch Kids are essentially Swedish Fish with sour sugar.
Broccoli originated over 2,000 years ago in the Mediterranean through selective breeding of wild cabbage.
Early Orange Crush had orange pulp added during bottling to give the soda the appearance of freshly squeezed juice.
Cotton Candy grapes are a naturally bred hybrid that took over eight years to develop by crossbreeding grape varieties to achieve a flavor similar to cotton candy.
In the 1980s, Pringles’ founder, Fredric Baur, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.
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.
In 18th-century England, having a pineapple was a symbol of wealth because of high import fees. They were often used as displays instead of being eaten.
Due to their semi-aquatic nature, the Catholic Church once considered beavers to be fish, fit for consumption on meatless Fridays.
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.
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.
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.”
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
Cranberries are native to North America and are one of only three fruits native to the continent that are grown commercially.
Sauerkraut sounded far too German for U.S. patriots during World War I, who instead nicknamed it “Liberty Cabbage.”
In 1889, Margherita pizza was crafted to honor Queen Margherita, using ingredients that symbolize the Italian flag’s colors: tomato, mozzarella, and basil.
Movie theaters make roughly 40% of their profit from concession stands. This is because ticket revenues have to be shared with the movie distributors.
The Pringles mascot’s name, “Julius Pringles,” started as a 2006 Wikipedia hoax. Until then, he was simply known as Mr. P, but in 2013, Kellogg officially adopted the name.
