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10 Interesting Food Facts!

#1 photo.ollie

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Post icon Posted 31 August 2008 - 02:33 PM

- The most expensive coffee in the world comes from civet poop
- The largest food item on a menu is roast camel
- The FDA allows you to sell bugs and rodent hair for consumption
- The first soup was made of hippopotamus
- Refried beans are only fried once
- Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish
- The Popsicle was invented by an 11 year who kept it secret for 18 years.
- Microwave cooking was discovered accidentally when a chocolate bar melted in someone�s pocket
- Dynamite is made with peanuts
- Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.

hope you enjoyed them!
i may update this thread, if i find anymore cool ones!

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 02:40 PM

hehe i knew some of this stuff.
my biology teacher from 10th year used to work for nabisco, he told us a lot of this stuff and showed us.

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 02:42 PM

never knew about the blood plasma thing
sounds cool

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 02:49 PM

QUOTE (`LANE @ Aug 31 2008, 11:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hehe i knew some of this stuff.
my biology teacher from 10th year used to work for nabisco, he told us a lot of this stuff and showed us.

haha, coolio!

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 04:30 PM

Woah, this was interesting! I heard about some of the stuff from my social studies teacher in 10th grade

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 04:52 PM

Wow, I can't believe the last two are actually true!

Would've never imagined.

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 04:56 PM

LMFAO @ the 11 year old.
He's one smart kid.

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 04:57 PM

Haha those are interesting food facts. I liked the last one for some reason.. it caught my attention.

Thanks for sharing the facts!

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Posted 31 August 2008 - 08:08 PM

Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish??? i did not know that! >__< ew i dont really like fish :x

haha smart 11year old

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Posted 01 September 2008 - 12:40 AM

Very interesting.
The boy who invented the popsicle is one smart kid haha.

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Posted 01 September 2008 - 12:46 AM

how can an 11-year-old keep something secret for 18 years? what's an 11 year?
mmm, coconut juice.

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Posted 01 September 2008 - 12:54 AM

very interesting i think that i heard of the coffee poop thing somewhere

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Post icon Posted 03 September 2008 - 02:27 AM

QUOTE (photo.ollie @ Aug 31 2008, 06:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

- The largest food item on a menu is roast camel
- The Popsicle was invented by an 11 year who kept it secret for 18 years.

O___________o My bf told me that camel would have to be the nastiest piece of meat he ever ate!!

Oooh popsicles!! *runs off to get a pink one* ^^ Yum!!

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Posted 03 September 2008 - 02:37 AM

hehe, those are some rather insane facts lol. I didn't knowe a single one of them! ^^;

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Posted 03 September 2008 - 02:41 AM

Oh,i've seen the coconut water one on tv before.

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Posted 03 September 2008 - 11:31 AM

QUOTE (imperfectly_perfect @ Aug 31 2008, 09:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish??? i did not know that! >__< ew i dont really like fish :x

Yeah, it's made from anchovies, IIRC. It's a fermented fish sauce basically.

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Posted 03 September 2008 - 03:18 PM

LAWL a lot of these are funny!
Especially the popsicle and the coconut. who knew!

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Posted 27 September 2008 - 05:53 AM

The FDA allows you to sell bugs and rodent hair for consumption

-what???!!that's awfull
i mean bugs and rodent hair aren't they dirty or something...

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