These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
Between 2010 to 2015, parliament’s British lawmakers consumed 625,464 cans and bottles of Coke, along with 659,470 chocolate bars and other candy. KitKats were the MPs favorite, accounting for one in six snacks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.economist.com/britain/2016/02/11/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-chew
Swedish bakery Bake My Day earned a Guinness World Record by baking a semla bun weighing in at 661 lbs. The semla bun contains 286 lbs of cream and 66 lbs of almond cream. – WTF Fun Facts
One of the earliest recipes for ice cream, or icy cream as it was called in this 1660’s recipe, included ambergreece/ambergris or whale feces for flavoring. – WTF Fun Facts
More Guinness is consumed in Nigeria than in Ireland as it consumes the second most globally behind the UK. Guinness has been sold in Nigeria since 1827. The United States consumes the fourth most Guinness worldwide. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.irishpost.com/news/top-5-guinness-drinking-countries-world-176215
A Russian 3D bioprinter successfully produced beef, rabbit, and fish tissue on the International Space Station using magnetic fields in microgravity. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-small-nibble-d-printer-meat.html
In 1920, candy-maker Harry Burt created the first “ice cream on a stick” in Youngstown, Ohio. His first candy invention was called the Jolly Boy Sucker. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/good-humor-ice-cream-truck
The world’s oldest uneaten chocolates are over 100 years old. A tin of chocolates from the coronation of King Edward VII from 1902 sits in the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thedailymeal.com/cook/oldest-box-chocolates-world
Vanilla is the second-most expensive spice after saffron because growing the vanilla seed pods is very labor-intensive. Pods are harvested daily to ensure the right maturity. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla
Tea symbolizes loyalty, love and happily married life in Chinese weddings because tea trees cannot be transplanted – they will only grow and sprout from a seed. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-tea/wedding-tea-ceremony.htm
Ice cream originated in China, as early as 3000 BC. The original recipe consisted of milk, rice and snow. King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make the dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodicecream.html
In 2007, archaeologists discovered the oldest known wine-making facility in the world. It was found within a cave (Areni-1) near Areni in present-day Armenia and dates back 6100 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/1/110111-oldest-wine-press-making-winery-armenia-science-ucla/
A 2016 Cornell study found that you are four times more likely to order dessert if your waiter or waitress was overweight. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3055212/youre-more-likely-to-order-dessert-if-your-waiter-is-fat
Kale, collard greens, Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli all come from the same plant: brassica oleracea. They are just different breeds or cultivars. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea
The concept of “the munchies”, a side-effect from the use of Cannabis and it’s active ingredient THC’s impact on the CB1 receptor which results in an increase in appetite, has been understood since ~300 BC. – WTF Fun Facts
Peru is home to ~3800 different types of potatoes, having been domesticated there some ~10,000 years ago. They differ in size, shape, color, skin, pulp, texture, and taste. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.limaeasy.com/peruvian-food-guide/typical-potatoes
The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants at the same air pressure and atmosphere as on Mars, and used saline desert soils analogous to Martian soils as the growing medium. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://cipotato.org/blog/indicators-show-potatoes-can-grow-mars/
The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day came from General Foods trying to sell more grape nuts cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/
Italy’s top civil court ruled that restaurants must disclose to their customers if they serve frozen food or it’s considered commercial fraud – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20170719/serving-frozen-food-without-telling-customers-menu-fraud-rules-top-italian-cassation-court