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From strange fruit & vegetables to your favorite dairy products, these fun facts should please your appetite.
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Food & Drink Facts
Chipotles aren’t a separate chili pepper species. They are simply red, fully ripened jalapeños that have been smoked and dried.
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.
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.
Green olives and black olives are the same fruit. The green ones are picked before ripening, while the black ones are left to ripen on the tree.
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.”
In the original 1984 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” comics, the turtles were depicted drinking beer; their love for pizza was introduced in the 1987 animated series.
It’s estimated that of the 100,000 species of mushrooms worldwide, only about 100 are toxic to humans.
Eating just rabbit meat can cause “rabbit starvation,” a type of protein poisoning caused by too much protein and too little fat in the diet.
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.
The Miracle Berry can temporarily make sour foods taste sweet due to the glycoprotein miraculin, which binds to taste receptors.
Eating bananas near bee hives may provoke aggression, as the banana scent resembles an alarm pheromone bees release when defending the hive.
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.
There are over 196 different flavors of Pringles. This includes mushroom and cream, pecan pie, and white chocolate peppermint.
About 4% of global cheese production is stolen annually, making cheese the world’s most stolen food.
“Pub” is short for public house, which means that an establishment is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking on the premises.
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.
Due to their semi-aquatic nature, the Catholic Church once considered beavers to be fish, fit for consumption on meatless Fridays.
Early Orange Crush had orange pulp added during bottling to give the soda the appearance of freshly squeezed juice.
Broccoli originated over 2,000 years ago in the Mediterranean through selective breeding of wild cabbage.
The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the world is Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain, founded in 1725!
Dipping bread in olive oil and balsamic vinegar isn’t a traditional Italian practice; it actually originated in San Francisco.
In 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, which lasted less than two months.
