Tag: snack
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Creepy History of Cheese
Cheese has been around for thousands of years. Although there are many theories as to how human kind first discovered cheese rumor has it that cheese may have accidently created by people who were simply storing milk. Milk was stored in a stomach bag – yes you read that correctly, a stomach bag. The creepier…
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This Food is Related to Poison
Have you heard about the poison Nightshade? You might be as surprised as me to know that common food such as potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, tobacco and some peppers are considered Nightshade vegetables. Plant families are groups of food that have similar characteristics. Look at a potato flower and a Nightshade flower the resemblance is striking.…
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Spam and Eggs, Spam and Ham?
SPAM is probably the most unusual, popular food item I’ve ever seen. It’s eaten with American-Asian Cuisine, fried on a pan and some even just eat it straight out of the can. There are SPAM museums, and collectors cans that surround shelves of SPAM lovers world-wide. So what’s the deal with Spam? Where did it…
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Offensive Forks
Let’s take a step back from everything we are accustomed to and travel back to the 10th Century when forks first came to be. As the story goes, the wife of Roman Emperor Otto II, Theophanu Byzantine introduced this tool to the Roman Empire and by the 14th Century merchants were using and trading this…
