Food Trivia

While we've tended to define berries as any small edible fruit, the official definition of a berry is "a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary." By this definition, oranges, kumquats, blueberries, and even tomatoes can be considered part of the berry family. Strawberries, on the other hand, are known as "accessory fruits."
Taken from: https://www.foodbeast.com/news/strawberries-are-not-berries-avocados-and-watermelon-are/

Like many great discoveries...and this is one of the greatest, It was a mistake. The invention of the chocolate chip cookie happened in 1930 when Ruth Graves Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, were running the Toll House Inn on Route 18 near Whitman, Massachusetts. One day, while baking a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, Wakefield added chopped up bits from a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar. She thought it would create solid chocolate cookies. But, that didn't go as planned, and a star was born.
Taken from: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/living/chocolate-chip-cookie-history-trnd/index.html,
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/ChocolateChipCookie/

National Sandwich Day is the North American version of British Sandwich Week and is set to take place on November 3rd, 2018. The event was launched in the USA in 2017 and proved to be such an international success that it will make a reappearance in 2018.
Taken from: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-sandwich-day-2018/

Le Mars is the home of Wells Enterprises, Inc., world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells is best known for its Blue Bunny products.
Taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mars,_Iowa

In the early ’70s, McDonald’s was looking for a new company to head their next campaign. Needham, Harper & Steers impressed McDonald’s through the marrying of their various audiences — mothers, fathers and kids — with the singular idea of “getting away.”
Taken from: https://www.1callgroup.com/mcdonalds-you-deserve-a-break-today-blog.html

Pancakes may have grown to be associated with Shrove Tuesday as it was the last day to eat foods containing butter, eggs, and fat before the fasting of lent and dates back to the 16th century.
Taken from: https://quizzclub.com/trivia/what-is-eaten-traditionally-in-the-uk-the-day-before-ash-wednesday/answer/282580/

During World War Two, hamburgers were called "liberty steaks" instead. The Americans wanted to change the name because hamburgers was a German sounding name.
Taken from: https://www.sutori.com/item/during-world-war-two-hamburgers-were-called-liberty-steaks-instead-the-ameri

If you're caught sticking an Ice Cream Cone in your back pocket, you could be thrown in jail! This is just one of the crazy state Alabama Laws that you may, or may not know about.
Taken from:https://alt1017.com/sticking-an-ice-cream-cone-in-your-back-pocket-is-illegal-in-alabama-along-with-10-other-crazy-state-laws/

It's strange but it's true. These cocoa beans that were used to make the liquid chocolate were largely used as a barter currency for the exchange of food and clothes.
Taken from: https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/did-you-know-chocolate-was-used-as-currency-centuries-ago-1729340

Cheese is the world's most stolen food item. More than meat, more than baby formula. Cheese stealing is especially popular in Europe because as one security expert put it: "You know, Europeans love their cheese."
Taken from: https://www.marketplace.org/2013/04/02/life/final-note/whats-worlds-most-stolen-food

Well, orange carrots at least. Like most things, it was an accident – a genetic mutation. But the domestication of carrots did result in the sweet, smooth, and orange root we know and love to eat today.
Taken from: http://sciencemeetsfood.org/food-trivia/

Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks.
Taken from:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38678280/ns/health-food_safety/t/no-cause-food-poisoning-poultry/#.XJjRiSgzbIU

Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity.
Taken from: https://www.history.com/news/did-an-apple-really-fall-on-isaac-newtons-head

Have you ever noticed that your honey never rots? Actually, it can last 3000 years. Archaeologists excavated old Egyptian tombs and found something unexpected amongst the tombs: pots of honey, thousands years old, and yet still preserved.
Taken from:https://foodaddict725.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/honey-is-the-only-food-that-will-never-rot/

In 1834, ketchup was sold as a cure for indigestion by an Ohio physician named John Cook.
Taken from: https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/question/what-popular-condiment-was-once-sold-as-medicine/