Kraft is rebranding their famous Mac & Cheese as a breakfast food after finding parents served it more often as a breakfast food during the Covid-19 pandemic. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Kraft mac and cheese is now a breakfast food, apparently – CNN
Food
These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
WTF Fun Fact – Ice Cream Bean
The ice cream bean (Inga edulis) is a fruit that has a taste very similar to its namesake vanilla ice cream. The tree which the bean grows on is native to the Americas and can grow to nearly 100 ft tall and produce bean pods up to 6 ft long. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Smugglaroos Delivering Dunkaroos
After discontinuing the sale of Dunkaroos in the USA in 2012, General Mills created a website (Smugglaroos.com) so that U.S. users could register to be matched with Canadians traveling to their area who would volunteer to deliver them Dunkaroos. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Nineties Kids’ Favorite Snack, Dunkaroos, Is Coming Back – Eater
WTF Fun Fact – PETA Ice Cream Substitute Suggestion
In 2008, PETA requested Ben & Jerry’s use breast milk instead of cow’s milk to make ice cream. This was unanimously rejected by Ben & Jerry’s and the La Leche League International. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: PETA calls on ice cream maker to use breast milk – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Popcorn For Cereal
In the 1800s, popcorn was often eaten as a cereal with milk and sugar. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Austrian Beer Pools
The 700-year-old Starkenberger brewery in Tarrenz, Austria, has seven swimming pools filled with beer. The brewery, which is housed in an ancient castle, converted the old vats in the fermentation room to pools. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: This Austrian Brewery Has Swimming Pools of Beer | Travel + Leisure (travelandleisure.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Madonna Ham Statue
In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb made a statue of Madonna from 180 pounds of ham. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: 13 Apr 1994, Page 30 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com
WTF Fun Fact – Coffee Cherries
Coffee beans grow on a bush. They are actually the seed of a small red fruit called coffee cherries and are technically not a bean at all. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Is Coffee a Fruit or a Vegetable? [The Definitive Answer] – Taylor Lane
WTF Fun Fact – Pringle Aerodynamics
The technical name for a Pringle chip’s shape is a truncated hyperbolic parabaloid. Their shape gives them the correct aerodynamics for flight (so they don’t fly off the production line) and the structural integrity to ensure break-free transport in their tube. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Caviar Of The East
The “Caviar of the East,” bird’s nest soup is made from the nest of the endangered swiftlet bird, who uses its own solidified saliva to make its nest. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Diamond Is Forever Martini
The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo sells a Diamond Is Forever Martini that features a one-carat diamond alongside Absolut Elyx Vodka and a splash of lime juice. You will also be serenaded with the song of the same name – all for ¥2 million, or roughly $18,500USD. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Adult Milk In Japan
Japanese company Nakazawa Foods sells Adult Milk – for adults living in a stressful society. The milk costs over $4 per quart and is taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn, when they discharge a lot of melatonin. It contains 3-4x more melatonin than regular milk. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Got money? You’ll need a lot to buy this milk (nbcnews.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Bubble Gum-Flavored Broccoli
McDonald’s, in an attempt to get kids to eat healthier, created bubble gum-flavored broccoli. It failed as kids were confused by the flavor. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why McDonald’s created bubble gum-flavored broccoli – CBS News
WTF Fun Fact – Animal Crackers Freed
In 2018, after 116 years behind bars, animal crackers were freed from their cages by Nabisco after PETA wrote a request to their parent company. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: In a Victory for PETA, Animal Crackers Roam Free – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Potato Dumpling Catapult
In 1967 a Munich resident, Helmut G. Winter, built a catapult to launch potato dumplings at the low-flying, noisy planes flying over his house. For one reason or another, the West German Luftwaffe pilots eventually changed their flight path. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Free Local Honey With Your Car Service
Since 2016, some Australian Subaru dealerships have been giving out free local honey after servicing cars. Bee One Third – Neighborhood Honey formed a mutualistic relationship where BOT places boxes of beehives in strategic places, like empty dealership rooftops, and provides them honey. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Tibetan Butter Tea
In Tibet, butter tea is a common drink. It is traditionally made from black tea, yak butter, and salt resulting in a consistency like a stew or oil. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Butter tea – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Tootsie Roll Industries & Ellen Gordon
Tootsie Roll Industries is a publicly traded company on the NYSE with a ~$2 billion market cap. It’s been run by the now 89-year-old Ellen Gordon for the last 50+ years. – WTF Fun Facts