These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
Roses are planted at the end of a row of grape vines on vineyards because they are very susceptible to powdery mildew and mold. As such, they act as an early warning sign of mold or mildew allowing the vineyard staff to react before it impacts the grapes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.kj.com/blog/stopping-smell-roses-vineyard
During the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, McDonald’s announced a promotion that offered free food and drink every time a U.S. athlete reached the medals podium. The former Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics leading to many American wins and a very costly promotion. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-mcdonalds-olympics-20170616-story.html
If ripening cherries are not dried after it rains, they will soak up the water, split, and can’t be picked and sold. In order to dry them, farmers hire helicopters to slowly maneuver 5 feet over the trees and blasts the water off the cherries! – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blog.aopa.org/aopa/tag/cherry-drying/
Researchers found that removing trays from college cafeterias reduced the amount of solid food waste by nearly 20%. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-removingtrays-dininghalls/removing-trays-from-dining-halls-cuts-food-waste-idUSBRE8A114T20121102
Pepperidge Farms produces over 140 billion goldfish crackers each year and nearly 560 million Milano cookies.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cspdailynews.com/snacks-candy/pepperidge-farm-rolling-out-35-new-products
Voted one of the world’s best restaurants, Osteria Francescana, has a menu item called ‘the crunchy part of the lasagna’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.osteriafrancescana.it/
In early 2019, after McDonald’s sued Irish fast food chain Supermac for trademark infringement, a judge ruled McDonald’s Big Mac trademark was not valid in the EU because they were unable to prove that they had used the Big Mac trademark their. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tasty-result-for-supermacs-with-david-and-goliath-big-mac-win-37716672.html
M&M’s were first created commercially in 1941 by Forrest Mars, Sr. after witnessing soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell during the Spanish Civil War, which prevented the chocolate from melting in the warm weather. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.history.com/news/the-wartime-origins-of-the-mm
Patrick’s Pub and Grill is a bar that’s on the border of Georgia and Tennessee and split between the two states. The Georgia half is in a “dry county”, meaning that any alcohol purchased at the bar on the Tennessee side cannot be brought to the Georgia side where the restrooms are. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20080603/News/604163811/GS
Honey hunters in Mozambique use special calls to recruit the services of birds known as honeyguides. The birds lead the humans to bees’ nests and in return, they get the leftover beeswax. – WTF Fun Facts
In Toronto, Canada, a small company has developed vegan leather made from apple peels that are recycled from the juicing industry. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fashion-designers-replace-plastic-based-vegan-leather-with-apple-fabric/
In 1953, a single PEEPS Marshmallow Chick took 27 hours to make and was created by hand with a pastry tube. Today, even with advances in technology it still takes about six minutes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.justborn.com/news-and-media/2015/came-first-peeps-chick-peeps-decorated-egg/
Nearly 80% of all avocados sold in the world come from a single seed sourced in 1926. Rudolph Hass grafted the seedling with branches from a Fuerte avocado tree which he almost cut down. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hass_avocado
Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee was introduced in 1932; but it does not contain nuts. It’s named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops during the Great Depression. – WTF Fun Facts
The Pop-Tart was created after Post’s pet food division created the technology for a non-refrigerated, semi-moist dog food called Gaines Burgers. Shortly after they launched Country Squares, but Kellogg later came out with their Pop-Tart and far better marketing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-09-25-9409250345-story.html
Bananas have a curved shape because they reach for the sunlight when they grow. This unique process is known as ‘negative geotropism’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.dole.eu/dole-earth/farmtour/bananito/hotspot/banana-curved.html
Pistachios split themselves open when they are ripe in a process called dehiscence. This trait has been selected and specifically cultivated with different varieties having various rates of dehiscence consistency. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio#Botany
Castroville is a rural town in California that is nicknamed the ‘Artichoke Capital of the World’. 99.9% of all artichokes worldwide are grown in California as they can grow them year round there. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/always-season-artichokes