These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
Leprino Foods is the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. They supply cheese to 85% of the pizza market including Domino’s, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars. The company sells 1 billion pounds of cheese each year. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprino_Foods
Post Cereal co-sponsored The Pink Panther television show in 1972 and as a tie-in created Pink Panther Flakes with pink frosted flakes which turned the milk pink. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=278
Applesearch is an organization that has dedicated more than 20 years to finding and saving heirloom apple varieties to ensure their survival for future generations. They have found an original tree for over 1,000 varieties. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://applesearch.org/
Until 1990, McDonald’s french fries were fried in a special beef fat (93%) and vegetable oil blend (7%) that was known as Formula 47. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blog.cheapism.com/why-mcdonalds-fries-used-to-be-better/
The hamburger accounts for 60% of all sandwiches sold worldwide. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://beef2live.com/story-ten-burger-facts-burgerfi-0-111766
One of the first diet books, “The Art Of Living Long,” came out in 1558 and is still in print. The author Luigi Cornaro was an extremely overweight Italian who at age 40 was tired of being overweight and feeling out of control. He limited himself to 12 oz. of food a day and 14 oz. of wine. He lived to be almost 100 years old. – WTF Fun Facts
Cotton candy is called “candy floss” in the UK and India, “fairy floss” in Australia and Finland, “papa’s beard” in France, and “Grandma’s hair” in Greece. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://culinarylore.com/specialty-foods:cotton-candy-around-the-world/
Peanut butter manufacturers fought a 12 year legal battle with the FDA over the minimum peanut content required to be legally labelled “peanut butter”. Anything under 90% peanuts must be labelled “peanut spread”. – WTF Fun Facts
Portland’s famous Voodoo Doughnut served a Pepto Bismol coated doughnut sprinkled with Tums and a NyQuil doughnut laced with the cough medicine until they got in trouble with the FDA. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/1673135/the-secret-joojoo-behind-voodoo-doughnuts
Su filindeu (meaning the threads of God) is one of the rarest, most difficult to make pastas in the world. For the past 300 years, only women from one Sardinian family in the town of Nuoro have known how to make it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161014-the-secret-behind-italys-rarest-pasta
The earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6000 BC, and it was a hippopotamus soup. The other ingredients in the soup were sparrows, vegetables, lentils, and various spices. – WTF Fun Facts
Snooker player Bill Werbeniuk became famous for his drinking ability which doctors advised him to do in order to counteract a familial benign essential tremor. He would drink at least 6 pints before a match and one during each frame. In the 1970’s, he once drank 76 cans during a match in Australia. – WTF Fun Facts
Most of the wasabi served outside of Japan is a mixture of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring. Real wasabi must be freshly grated as it only holds its strong flavor for ~15 minutes. – WTF Fun Facts
A tradition since the 1960’s, there is a special seat in the US Senate on the Republican side known as the Candy Desk because it has a drawer full of sweets. The senator who sits there must stock it full of candy from their home state. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-senate-candy-desk.htm
Nutella is the number one consumer of hazelnuts in the world, buying up a quarter of the entire world production. – WTF Fun Facts
Some counties in Wisconsin use liquid cheese brine in addition to salt to prevent their roads from getting too icy in the winter. – WTF Fun Facts
Ice cream sundaes were first created in the late 1800’s to circumvent “blue laws” that outlawed ice cream sodas on Sunday. Ice cream was served with the syrup of your choice but without the soda. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/Sundae.htm
Broccoli was first cultivated in ancient Roman times and its name is derived from the Latin word brachium, meaning “strong arm or branch”. Roman farmers called it the “five (green) fingers of Jupiter” because of its curative and preventative properties. – WTF Fun Facts