Food and Drinks Trivia

  • Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
  • The chef's tall hat is called a toque
  • Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450°F
  • Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
  • Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring
  • Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces
  • Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato"
  • The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas
  • To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe
  • The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
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