These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
A professional eater downed 50 slices of pumpkin pie in 10 minutes to win a New York state contest and set a new record for the event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/10/02/Woman-sets-pumpkin-pie-eating-record-at-50-slices-in-10-minutes/1671570027922/?sl=5
There’s a type of honey called mad honey which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make the dangerous vertical climb to harvest it because it sells for up to $80 a pound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/
A study found that each year arthropods (like millipedes, spiders and ants) eat over 2,100 pounds of junk food discarded in New York City’s Broadway/West St. corridor in Manhattan. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3039379/new-york-ants-eat-the-equivalent-of-60000-hot-dogs-a-year-in-food-we-drop
Avocados nearly went extinct 13,000 years ago after large animals like the mammoth and giant ground sloth went extinct. With no means of dispersing the seeds, it was left to early farmers to cultivate the species. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/
The world’s largest serving of fried chicken totaling 3,675 pounds was prepared by 18 vendors at a food festival in Japan for a new Guinness World Record. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/09/16/Japanese-festival-cooks-up-worlds-largest-serving-of-fried-chicken/7141568650844/?sl=11
“Häagen-Dazs” is a completely made up name by its Polish Jewish founders to try and sound Danish. The umlaut doesn’t exist in Danish nor does the “zs” letter combination. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.my/what-brand-names-mean-2017-4/
A study found store-bought tomatoes taste bland because they are missing the gene (TomLoxC) which gives them their flavor. 93% of the current, domesticated varieties sold in stores are missing the gene. – WTF Fun Facts
In Shanghai, you can get Coffee mellow, which is a coffee served with a cloud of cotton candy. The coffee vapor rises and dissolves the cotton candy which rains sugar into the cup. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://mymodernmet.com/sweet-little-rain-mellower-coffee/
There are five major American cities with water so pure it doesn’t require filtration: Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and NYC. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/nyregion/thecity/18feat.html
Coke has 20 different brands that generate more than a billion dollars in sales globally. – WTF Fun Facts
The origin of Walt Disney’s last name is the anglicized word D’Isigny meaning “from Isigny”. Relatives in France created a cheese company and they’ve created collaborations making Mickey Mouse themed cheese. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.isigny-ste-mere.com/en/disney
A Japanese chef prepared an egg noodle measuring 602 feet, 9 inches long to break the Guinness World Record. – WTF Fun Facts
A recent study found 1/3rd of the fish sold in restaurants and grocery stores in the US is mislabeled and misrepresented. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://oceana.org/sites/default/files/National_Seafood_Fraud_Testing_Results_Highlights_FINAL.pdf
Canada consumes the most doughnuts and has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/the-doughnut-unofficial-national-sugary-snack
A recent study found that a messy kitchen causes people to eat more. The chaotic environment causes people to feel out of control and to subsequently eat more. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/messy-kitchens-could-make-you-eat-more-180958146/
The ‘XXX’ which is often used to indicate “poison” originated from moonshiners. The X’s indicated their alcohol had been run through the still 3 times and was now pure and strong. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://vinepair.com/articles/what-moonshine-xxx-label-mean/
The Twinkie was invented by James Dewar who worked as a baker for Continental Baking Company. He repurposed several machines used to make cream-filled strawberry shortcake that were sitting idle while strawberries were out of season. The original recipe used a banana cream. – WTF Fun Facts
Mars’ Snickers candy bar is the top selling candy bar in the world with over $2 billion in sales in 2016. It was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://kxrb.com/snickers-the-top-candy-bar-named-after-a-horse/