These food facts are sure to satiate your weird and fun food fact appetite!
A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in jail for stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fajita-heist-texas-man-sentenced-50-years-stealing-1-2-n868451
Before refrigerators, Russians and Finns would put live brown frogs in their milk to keep it from spoiling. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin
Piranha soup is a popular dish and considered an aphrodisiac in Brazil. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-piranhas-180951948/
A 2011 study found that there is a genetic mutation in half the world’s population which causes brussels sprouts to taste very bitter to them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-some-people-hate-brussels-sprouts/
Americans eat 20 billion hot dogs annually, which is about 70 hot dogs per person. They are served in 95% of American homes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://hot-dog.org/
Americans spend an average of 37 minutes a day doing meal preparation and cleanup. This is roughly half the amount of time that was spent in the 1960’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(14)00400-0/fulltext
Caffeine extracted from coffee beans to make decaf coffee is sold as crude caffeine to refiners and the pure caffeine is ultimately sold to soft drink makers like Coca Cola and Pepsi. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/26/467844829/inside-the-anonymous-world-of-caffeine?t=1561060551334
Puffins are a local delicacy in Iceland. You can find them served smoked, grilled, or boiled. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/eat_and_drink/2016/12/21/12_local_delicacies_to_try_in_iceland/
Instant ramen was invented by Momofuku Ando in 1958 and was voted Japan’s greatest invention of the 20th century by the Japanese. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1067506.stm
The “seeds” on the outside of the strawberry are not actually seeds but ovaries called achenes that contain a separate fruit with a single seed inside it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-does-a-strawberry-have-seeds-on-the-outside
Researchers found that the price paid for something impacts the way we taste and enjoy it. For example, paying a lot more money for the same bottle of wine gives the drinker more pleasure because the higher price causes more blood and oxygen to be sent to the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-90-wine-tastes-better-than-the-same-wine-at-10/
In 2018, Americans spent nearly $40 billion on purchases while they were drunk, and understandably the majority of these purchases were food.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/americans-spent-almost-40-billion-yes-billion-on-drunk-shopping-last-year/ar-BBV1LkE
The Portuguese actually introduced a battered and fried green bean recipe called peixinhos da horta to Japan in the 1500’s, which has now become the Japanese dietary staple tempura.
– WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-the-truth-about-japanese-tempura
In 1937, the first “McDonald’s” was actually a hot dog called the Airdrome. It wasn’t until 1940 that they became Mcdonald Barbeque and added hamburgers and french fries to the menu.
Chick-fil-A was originally founded in 1946 by S. Truett Cathy and his brother Ben as Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia and then later renamed to Dwarf House. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the Chick-fil-A name was trademarked and the first Chick-fil-A opened in an Atlanta mall in 1967.
Source: https://www.southernliving.com/culture/chick-fil-a-dwarf-house-menu
The crunch of a potato chip, an apple, or a carrot in your mouth creates a mini sonic boom and signals freshness.
Filipino style spaghetti uses hot dogs instead of meatballs and uses banana catsup instead of maranara sauce.
Wine drinkers pour 12% more wine into a glass they are holding versus one that is sitting the table.
– WTF Fun Fact