From odd, to strange to somewhat ridiculous. Here’s some fun facts about food that will make you cringe, roll your eyes, nod in agreement but mostly make you go hmmmmm…….
- Chocolate was once used as currency. The ancient civilizations of Mexico and South America, specifically The Mayans and the Aztecs, used the cocoa bean as a system of money.
- The red food-coloring carmine — used in Skittles and other candies — is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.
- Casu Marzu is a cheese found in Sardinia that is purposely infested with maggots.
- Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.
- There will always be one person in the group who wants to eat their portion of Gatsby with a knife and fork.
- McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day.
- When taken in large doses nutmeg works as a hallucinogen
- Eating bananas can help fight depression.
- Biryani can’t fix everything, but it’s a good start.
- Castoreum, which is used as an artificial vanilla flavoring in candies, baked goods, etc., is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers… yes, that’s gross!
- The M’s in M & M’s stand for Mars & Murrie, the co-creators of the sweet. The chocolates debuted in 1941 and are one of the best selling sweets of all time.
- Honey is the only food with an eternal shelf life. It won’t rot and it can last up to 3000 years.
- If you wake up late on a Sunday morning, you will not get your koeksister fix from the corner shop.
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- If you’re an Indian female and you can roll a proper round roti, this qualifies you for marriage….. no really…..
- It’s very common that mass produced ice cream contains seaweed. And no, it’s not because people want a taste of the ocean, it’s because it acts as a vital thickening agent. So that makes ice cream healthy right…..
- If you’re kokni and you don’t dunk your biscuits in your tea, then science would have it that you’re missing a gene.
Got any fun facts of your own? Let me know in the comments below.
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