Food Stuff

Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish.

Beans have historically been a symbol of the embryo and of growth in most societies. The ancient Egyptians called the place in which the, the souls of the dead awaited reincarnation 'the bean field.'

Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes.

Casu Marzu is a cheese found in Sardinia that is purposely infested with maggots.

Central Appalachia's tooth decay problem is referred to as Mountain Dew mouth, due to the beverage's popularity in the region.

There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world.

Square watermelons sell for about $85.

To make jelly beans shiny, shellac is used, which is made from Kerria lacca insect excretions.

Before 1991 Twix Bars were internationally knows as ‘Raider’.

Cornflakes have more genes than people do.

Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.

Octopuses are eaten alive in Korea.

Ranch dressing contains titanium dioxide, which is used to make it appear whiter. The same ingredient is used in sunscreen and paint for the same effect.

How you serve food and drink matters in the perception of taste. Hot chocolate tastes better in orange cups, scientists found.

The average hot dog is consumed in 6 bites.

Onion is Latin for large pearl. A basket of onions was considered a respectable funeral offering in ancient Egypt, second only to a basket of bread. Onions, with their circular layers, represented eternity and were found in the eyes of King Ramses IV who died in 1160 B.C.

The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

The potentially fatal brain mushroom is considered a delicacy in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the upper Great Lakes region of North America.

Many mass-produced ice creams have seaweed in them.

The Bourbon biscuit was introduced in 1910 originally under the name Creola.

A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy three nickels to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up two of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help. A well dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant. Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's' testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word. As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?" "No," the woman replied. "I'm with the IRS."