Have you ever heard any mind-blowing fact about
food? Well if not then here are 21 mind-blowing facts about food.
Mind-Blowing Facts About Food
1.
QA personnel at
Ben & Jerry’s have access to a machete so that they can grab random pints
off the line and cut them into quarters. This lets them inspect the product to
ensure the chunky parts, fillings, and other detached ingredients (e.g.
cheesecake chunks, chocolate chips, cookie dough chunks, brownie pieces, pieces
of fruit) are evenly distributed, and that there are enough of them.
2.
Pete’s Super
Submarines was renamed “Subway” because the former ended up sounding like
“pizza marines”.
3.
Colonel Sanders
used his social security check to start KFC.
4.
Pizza Hut got
its name since they were limited to 8 characters, “pizza” was already there,
and one of the founders commented how their building looked like a hut.
5.
Dunkin Donuts
got their name since the idea was, you dunked the donuts into your coffee.
6.
According to Big
History, the word “salt” has been used to derive other words associated with
it, including “salary”, “sauce”, “salvation”, and “salsa”.
7.
According to Big
History again, salt was so important that in ancient English areas, towns would
be dedicated to producing or moving salt, and their names would contain the
suffix “-wich”.
8.
At Five Guys,
you can request a free refill for your fries.
9.
The number of
Chinese joints put together, outnumbers the number of McDonald's restaurants.
10. McDonald’s fries are kept in freezers, along with
protein.
11. When a McDonald’s franchisee suggested the
filet-o-fish to be put on the menu so he could get business from local
Catholics who had to abstain from meat, Ray Kroc suggested his Hula burger
instead (pineapple slice, a slice of cheese on top and on bottom, and both buns
buttered). They held a competition, with whoever sold the most getting to put
their burger on the menu. The franchisee reported he sold about a couple dozen
(I’m going from memory here). When asked how many Hula burgers he sold, Ray
Kroc declined to answer.
12. The original Filet-o-fish had a full slice of
cheese, and used red cod. It’s been changed to half a slice of cheese, and
Pollock instead.
13. Despite popular belief, Twinkies and honey do NOT
last forever. The former has a shelf life of 25 days (and you probably wouldn’t
want to consume them after several months to a year), while the latter lasts a
few hundred years.
14. Twinkies used to be made with banana cream.
Shortages of fruit during world war II got them to switch to vanilla cream.
15. Organic seafood is meaningless since there are no
standards for it.
16. Growing almonds uses up 1 gallon of water per
almond.
17. A device to straighten bananas so that they would
be easier to eat and transport was created.
18. Some restaurants use different names for different
halves of the US despite being the same. Examples for eastern vs. western
include: Hardees/Carls Jr. and Checkers/Rallies.
19. Chef Gordon Ramsey approves of In & Out
Burger’s burgers! He was so impressed by it when he first tried it that he
actually got back in line at drive through to get a 2nd helping!
20. Only the top 2 chemists at Coca Cola are allowed to
memorize the cola’s formula.
21. Because of American’s love of pizza, mozzarella is
the type of cheese that’s most consumed in the US.
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