In this BIT: You’ll love these famous food facts and fun facts about food! Learn all about the origins of cake, crazy facts about berries, and more.
With the launch of the Small Bits of Happiness ‘I Swear It’s Easy’ Cookbook, we’ve been thinking a lot about food lately. When you really think deeply about it, food is a spectacular part of our lives! Not only does it give us the energy to get through daily life, move, learn, and grow. Food also serves as such a point of joy, connection, and nostalgia. From gaining confidence in the kitchen as you learn to cook for yourself, to re-creating foods you loved in childhood and delighting in traditional holiday meals at the same time, each year. Food also holds the power of time travel — bringing us back to earlier days as we indulge in foods that our parents, grandparents, and earlier generations passed down. In the spirit of our love for food, below are some of our favourite food fun facts. Send this BITS post to a food-lover in your life!
1. Technically, pumpkins and watermelon are berries!
2. Caesar salad was invented in Mexico, not in Italy.
3. Hawaiian pizza and California rolls were invented in Canada.
4. Cilantro may taste like soap to you, due to your genetic makeup!
5. The word ‘cake’ traces back to the Viking word ‘kaka’, meaning “a small cake”.
6. There are over 8,000 known grape varieties.
7. The longest kebab ever recorded was 6,717 ft 5 inches long.
8. Disney based a major animated series called “Adventures of the Gummi Bears” on Haribo gummy bears.
9. Almonds have been around for a while — they were found in King Tut’s tomb.
10. The average cherry tree yields around 7,000 cherries in a season. That’s enough for about 28 cherry pies!
We hope that these fun facts about famous food brought you a Small Bit of Happiness. If they brought a smile to your face, send this BITS post filled with food facts to someone in your life! Spread a Small Bit of Happiness. Be sure to also check out our Small Bits of Happiness Cookbook, with 100+ recipes across every meal + video QR codes, showing how to cook every single recipe.
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Sources:
National Geographic, Britannica, CBC, Miller Chemical, Guinness World Records, Chutters, BBC, Taste of Home, Wikipedia
