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10 Interesting Food Facts That You Should Know

You might think you know A TON about food, there’s always something new to learn, right? Right!

So let’s take a look at 10 food facts that you might not be aware of.

1. That’s kind of gross…

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IT’S FINALLY FRYDAY 🍟

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The fries at McDonald’s were cooked in beef fat until 1990. They’re now cooked in vegetable oil to be at least a little bit healthier.

2. Wow, that’s cool.

Glass gem corn exists. A farmer in Oklahoma named Carl Barnes spent years selectively breeding corn to come up with these beauties. Now anyone can buy and plant these cobs.

3. That’s a head-scratcher.

German chocolate cake actually didn’t originate in Germany—it got its name from Sam German, a guy who invented a certain kind of baking chocolate. The first recipe for German chocolate cake was written by a homemaker in Texas.

4. Wait a second…

Hawaiian pizza wasn’t invented in Hawaii.

It originally came from…wait for it…Canada.

5. This one blew my mind.

Spam is a mashup of the words “spice” and “ham.”

6. Say it ain’t so!

Most wasabi is just horseradish dyed green…and now I’m upset.

7. That’s a loooooong time.

Pineapples can take two to three years to grow. You’ve come a long way baby.

8. Samesies.

Fresh coriander and cilantro are the same thing.

9. Load up on ’em!

Peppers have two to three times as much Vitamin C than oranges, depending on the color.

10. That’s what you can call it.

A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto—an ‘i’ at the end of an Italian word indicates a plural masculine noun, and the singular is usually the same word, just ending in an ‘o.’

Did you learn some new things? Share some of your favorite food facts in the comments!

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Take a Look at the World’s First Cheese Conveyor Belt Restaurant

I remember my first sushi experience like it was yesterday: it was in San Francisco, and the little plates went around on a conveyor belt, and you could just grab off whatever you wanted and then pay at the end.

I thought it was amazing; my 15-year-old mind was well and truly blown!

Well, now it looks like I’ll need to make a trip across the pond to England to check out a place called The Cheese Bar. Located in London’s Camden Market, the restaurant specializes in fine cheese that is delivered to customers on a conveyor belt, making it the first cheese conveyor belt restaurant in the world.

Customers can choose from 25 different cheeses off the moving belt while they sip wine. The plates are color-coordinated by price, and customers are encouraged to gorge until they are content.

The restaurant also offers grilled cheese sandwiches and, for dessert, blue cheese soft serve.

Wow, never heard of that one before, but it sounds amazing.

The founder of The Cheese Bar, Matthew Carver, said, “We want to show that cheese and wine bars don’t have to be boring and can be enjoyed by everyone, whether you’re dropping in for a quick plate of British cheese and a glass of something unusual, or settling in for a cheese flight and a bottle of natural wine.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m on board with this idea. I can’t get enough of the stuff, even though I know I should cool it on my dairy…

Pass the cheese, please! All of it!

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IHOP Has an Addams Family Menu Full of Creepy Treats

I love all of this.

I love Halloween. I love pancakes. I love The Addams Family. What else do I need in this life?

Wait, I need this! IHOP launched an entire Addams Family menu on September 16 to go with the new 3-D animated Addams Family movie that hits theaters on October 11.

Alisa Gmelich, IHOP’s vice president of marketing, said, “Halloween, and the months leading up to it, are filled with such unadulterated fun for families, so it made perfect sense for IHOP to get in on the action.” She continued, “The quirkiness of The Addams Family matches our own playfulness as a brand, so a partnership with MGM felt like a great fit.”

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Gmelich added that signature IHOP items like pancakes, milkshakes, and omelettes were given a fun twist: “Our culinary team had a lot of fun playing around with distinctive flavors and eye-catching colors to create a menu that will be delightfully spooky and delicious to families of all ages, including grown-up kids, all month long.”

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The food menu includes Wednesday’s Web-Cakes, Gomez’ Green Chili Omelette, and the Kooky Kids’ Combo.

If you’re thirsty, you can get some creepy drinks as well! Choose from Uncle Fester’s Chocolate Ice Scream Shake (I know what I’m ordering) or Morticia’s Haunted Hot Chocolate.

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For you youngsters out there who only know about The Addams Family from the movies from the 1990s, you should probably know that the characters also had their own live-action TV show in the 1960s and the characters were based on artist Charles Addams’ cartoons that ran in The New Yorker between 1938-1988.

Here’s a trailer for the new animated film, by the way.

The limited-time menu runs through November 3, so don’t sleep on this! See you at IHOP!

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A New Heinz Bottle Shows You the Best Way to Pour Ketchup

A heap of ketchup in a puddle next to a hot serving of fries is about as close to heaven as you can get. But why is it so hard to get the stuff to come out of the bottle?

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This is the question ketchup lovers have been asking for about 150 years.

Folks, we may finally have the answer—and from Canada, no less.

Thank you, neighbor. We owe you one.

This issue is the angle of the bottle. To illustrate the solution to consumers, Heinz Canada and creative group Rethink Canada distributed Heinz Ketchup bottles with oddly placed labels. When consumers turned the bottle so the label was right side up, the bottle aligned with the perfect angle at which to pour the tangy condiment.

Watch the video below for a demonstration:

Brian Neumann, senior brand manager at Kraft Heinz Canada, told AdAge Magazine:

This year, we have focused our marketing on reinforcing the emotional connection fans have with the brand in clever and ownable ways. We’re always thinking of fun, cheeky ways we can highlight the iconic and timeless nature of the product to give our consumers a smile.

Fun and cheeky is the perfect description of their effort to show us the best way to get to Heinz’s tomatoey goodness – and it’s also what we in the south think of our northerly neighbors.

Now, for the bad news. The helpful bottles are in limited production…i.e. only for Toronto.

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But one of the foodie nerds at Food & Wine hacked that. Go run and get your protractor (I think I mentioned “nerd.”) and tip your bottle somewhere between a 35 and 45 degree angle. Make sure to verify the measurement because that is the sweet-ketchup-spot for optimum pouring performance.

Here is my hack on their hack: Paint the protractor red, write your name on it and decorate with stickers. Fasten the loop piece of Velcro on one side of the protractor and the hook piece inside your cabinet door. Hang your customized protractor inside the cabinet. Your very own scientific ketchup pouring angle indicator will be ready whenever you need it.

As they say in some parts of Canada, “Voila!”

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Should You Order Wine by the Glass?

You may only want one glass of wine, but are you getting ripped off when you order it at a bar or restaurant? After all, buying in bulk seems like a smarter idea. We certainly save money when we buy our oatmeal and cashews out of bins.

But is that how it works with restaurant wine?

Well, let’s start by looking at how restaurants price wine.

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If you are worried about the mark-up on wine, then rest assured: the mark-up is huge, whether wine is priced by the glass or the bottle. A bottle of wine is probably priced at four to five times higher than its wholesale cost. The restaurant, after all, needs to make a profit.

Guess what? The food is marked up too.

Now, that’s settled. So, let’s look at the by-the-glass pricing specifically.

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A restaurant can get four glasses of wine per bottle, but they might try to squeeze five. If they decide to split a mid-priced bottle, say $40, into five glasses, they are looking at charging customers $8 for each glass.

That sounds a little cheap, though. Customers may get turned off by what they think is a low quality glass of wine. They may even think the food must be low quality. So, if the restaurant charges $10 for each glass just to make it more attractive and in line with the rest of the menu, then that $40 bottle now brings in $50.

And that same bottle probably cost them about $10 wholesale. Definitely a big mark-up.

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Restaurants may also employ the opposite technique, though, on a pricy bottle. Maybe they got a great deal from an obscure winery or region, or they want to serve something fancy for holiday time. So they take a wine normally priced high and serve it by the glass at less than optimal price to encourage orders. It’s market research for them. Something to think about…

Also, don’t worry about the freshness if you’re at a decent place that seems to turn their bottles frequently. A good server won’t bring you a glass of stale wine, and if it does happen, then politely send it back. This is pretty much the only good reason to send back wine, by the way.

At any rate, the whole reason for paying a bunch of money to eat at a restaurant is to enjoy the entire experience. Otherwise, you’d cook at home and drink out of a box. Order what you like, whether it’s a glass or a bottle, and don’t worry about the rest.

As long as it’s not too expensive, anyway.

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You Might Need This 10-Step Guide to Giving Your Cat a Pill

Giving pills to any small creature, especially cats, who doesn’t understand why they need them and absolutely isn’t going to sit quietly and take them is a challenge.

To say the least.

But when it comes to fighting the inevitable, no one goes claws to the wall like an angry cat.

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And it’s not because they are against western medicine – I’ve never met an anti-vaxxer cat – they just don’t like to be made to do things against their will. Like, not at all.

So, if you’re faced with giving your beloved cat a dose of medicine for their own good, artist Nick Filippou (I iz Cat) has your back.

Or at least, he’ll make you laugh while you’re salving your vicious, vicious wounds.

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We all know the only thing I can do is wish you luck in your endeavor, and to remind you that your cat’s health is worth the pain and suffering.

Probably.

Follow Nick on Instagram or Facebook for more fun like this!

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10 Foods You May Have Been Eating the Wrong Way This Whole Time

Have you ever noticed that, sometimes, you eat certain foods differently than “normal” people? 

For example, I have a thing for pizza combos. And there’s only one way to eat them. Pop a few into a toaster oven for a minute, then when they are warm suck the cheese out of the center, then eat the pretzel. Odd right?

Buzzfeed opened up to their community about the strange and perhaps a better way of eating our favorite foods.

10. A new way to enjoy nachos!

@cheyannemehus says: My grandma takes Nacho Cheese Doritos and covers them with shredded cheese them bakes them until the cheese melts.

9. A taco technique to ensure you don’t lose the good stuff.

 

@jayleeh: Eat tacos from the top not the side because everything falls out

8. You’ve haven’t eaten a Pringle until you eat it topside down.

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Ich habe gerade noch ganz spontan einen langen Spaziergang mit meinem Papa gemacht. Ich wusste schon, dass er mit mir reden wollte. Wegen der Essstörung und meiner momentanen Verzweiflung wegen der Klinik usw. Es wurde dann auch ein sehr tiefgründiges Gespräch. Mein Papa schafft es wirklich, mit mir so darüber zu reden, dass ich nochmal nachdenke und nicht auf meiner Meinung festgefahren bleibe. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass er mich immer annehmen würde, egal wie dick oder dünn ich bin. Wir sind sogar nochmal bei meiner Tante gewesen, sodass ich ihr doch noch zum Geburtstag gratuliert habe. Meine Mama hätte mich nie überreden können, aber bei meinem Papa ist das einfach anders, weil er ruhiger ist und mich nicht gleich wegen allem anfährt und die Entscheidung am Ende trotzdem noch mir überlässt. Er kann zwar nicht nachvollziehen, warum mir gewisse Dinge so schwer fallen, aber allein, weil er mir seine Sichtweise schildert, gehts mir besser und ich betrachte das Ganze aus einer anderen Perspektive. Zum Beispiel meinte ich vorhin, dass man vielleicht nicht sieht, dass es mir schlecht geht, wenn ich im Normalgewicht bin. Dann hat er entgegnet, dass man so im Untergewicht denkt, es geht mir immer schlecht und wenn es mir mal gut geht, sieht man das ja dann nach meiner Denkweise auch nicht. Darüber habe ich noch nicht nachgedacht. Ich bin gerade einfach nur dankbar. Sorry für diesen verwirrenden Post, ich musste das gerade irgendwie niederschreiben. Morgen kommt dann mein Post über die Ängste. Macht euch einen schönen Abend ❤ . #weightgain #weight #minniemaud #gewicht #zunahme #pringles #essen #food #foodporn #foodinspiration #chips #keks #biscuit #healthy #pringleschips #magersucht #anorexie #essstörung #anorexia #ed #edrecovery #edwarrior #challenge #fearfood #fearfoodchallenge #recoverywin #recovery #recoveryisworthit #healthyfood #edfam Werbung

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@wavesandwonder: “Sometimes the bottom sides have a little flavoring because of how they’re stacked in the container, but most of the flavor is from the top side!”

7. A perfect breakfast treat.

 

@kirstinpeter82: “Bite off each end of a Twix so you can use it like a straw in your milk, hot chocolate, or tea.’

6. If you freeze your gummy bears, they become sweeter!

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@mentalcandy0702: “”They become sort of like mini popsicles!”

5. A gourmet grilled cheese by simply adding sliced tomatoes.

 

@royairavani01: “You can cook them in there or ~porn it up~ and add cold tomato slices after the sandwich is already grilled and melty.”

4. Cream cheese bagel? Amp it up with jelly!

 

@buckedupbabe: “I grew up with my grandma making cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. Toast the bread first, then put cream cheese on one side and your fave jelly or jam on the other. Heaven.”

3. Turn boring vanilla ice cream into a cereal topping explosion

@mtyskies: “It’s so good, and it works with any sugary cereal!”

2. Instead of putting seasoning on your fries, add it to your ketchup. YUM!

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1. A frozen pizza can become a calzone.

@smrtblonde77 “When I lived in a dorm without a kitchen, I used to pull frozen pizzas out of the freezer and let them soften enough to fold in half. Then I cooked those bad boys in a George Foreman Grill. Quick and easy calzones!”

Any food hacks you want to share? Leave them in the comments!

 

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15 Photos of People Who Probably Should’ve Used Spellcheck

With the advent of spellcheck (and, you know, the fact that most people have Google at their fingertips at all time), spelling errors are less and less common (at least on public signage).

Which is all to say, these 15 people decided they just really, really didn’t care. At all.

15. Decidedly less appetizing than oatmeal, which is honestly pretty hard to do.

14. I can see that.

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13. Related to peas, not, well…you know.

12. I bet they didn’t sell a whole lotta those.

11. Those are some bold eggs. Plus an ‘e.’

10. Come on you know what they mean!

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9. What happens when you’ve only heard a word and not seen it in print.

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8. Mmm, a winning combination if I’ve ever seen one.

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7. That is…not the same thing at all.

Skin Milk from BoneAppleTea

6. This one is honestly pretty darn adorable.

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5. An answer to the ranibow sprimkles.

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4. I mean just oh my laundry please don’t stop.

3. I definitely was not going to smork out here, officer.

Smorking from excgarated

2. The person who could spell quit too, sorry.

On a Burger King. Sorry for the what? from excgarated

1. They have that nice, swampy flavor to them.

Some of these are super cringe-y, if you ask me!

Are you good at spelling? Does stuff like this get under your skin?

Let us know in the comments!

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Some Plants Can Hear When They’re Being Eaten and They Fight Back

Ready to be weirded out? There are some plants that can hear when they’re being eaten.

Yes, they can actually hear the chomp, chomp of a caterpillar munching.

If I were a plant I would be losing my mind!

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How can we tell?

Scientists have long known about vibrations affecting plants. Think about your elementary science project where you talked to your plants or played music for them and compared their growth to that of a “control” plant. Remember that? Well, sound is really just vibrations that get carried through the air.

Two researchers from the University of Missouri wanted to dig deeper into this effect. So Rex Cocroft and Heidi Appel brought in some insects to help them out.

In their study, they used caterpillars known to eat “Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard.” This plant was chosen due to its known production of mustard oil.

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“A caterpillar that eats nothing but mustard oil plants can get poisoned if the levels get too high,” Appel told Farm Journal.

Interesting…

The next step was to set up a small vibration microphone to pick up the munching sounds of the caterpillars having lunch. Next, they played back these sounds for the poor Arabidopsis and, lo and behold, the plant began to excrete more mustard oil than typical when it wasn’t “under attack.”

“This indicates that the plants are able to distinguish feeding vibrations from other common sources of environmental vibration,” Cocroft said.

In addition to the oils, the plant produced more anthocyanins, a specific chemical that gives its flowers a red color.

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What does this mean?

While it does take time for the plant to build up the oil (a few hours to days), the researchers stated that one should think of it as the plant going to war. If the caterpillar keeps eating, it will be poisoned, leaving it dead. The oil is the plant’s defense mechanism.

“This research also opens the window of plant behavior a little wider, showing that plants have many of the same responses to outside influences that animals do, even though the responses look different,” he said.

Smart plants…I think I’ll become a strict carnivore.

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