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>ITT: Food facts that blew your mind when you first heard them

For me, it was learning that all fruit loops are the same flavor

>> No.10051072

Some foods look like slops of shit.

>> No.10051097

>>10051067
>all fruit loops are the same flavor
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH YOU TREMENDOUS CUNT NIGGER FAGGOT FRUIT LOOPS ARE MANY FLAVORS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.10051290

>>10051097
this someone bring in a food scientist with a PHD in breakfest

>> No.10051310

source for image please

>> No.10051315

I still cant believe its not butter

>> No.10051521

>>10051310
drawn together if I had to guess

>> No.10051539
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10051539

I always knew British food was bad, but then I learned just how bad it really is.

>> No.10051579

>>10051067
"meat" is actually animal muscle tissue.

>> No.10051586

>>10051579
Pork comes from a pig

>> No.10052570

>>10051579
Just buy meat from a grocery store where no animals were harmed.
Don't support hunting and murdering innocent animals.

>> No.10052582

>>10051539
Fuck you

>> No.10052600

As revenge for slavery black fast food workers will never provide a white patron with silverware

>> No.10052604

>>10052582
t. Nigel Thornberry

>> No.10052624

>>10052600
Thats a lie, yous just a bitch.

I get free shit all the time at midnight at Checkers and my food is always on point

>> No.10052636

>>10051067
Australians spread yeast on their morning toast. What the fuck.

>> No.10052689

>>10052624
>t. Trequantay Jackson
>I get free shit all the time
Yes we know, just like how you get free bikes from the middle school and free cigarellos from the gas station

>> No.10052704

>>10051579
What the fuck did you think it was?

>> No.10052710

There is no "chicken from a cow" or "chicken from a pig."
Granted, I picked up on this when I was young, but it's still sad.

>> No.10052713
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The Rocky Mountains have a large ocean on top of them and the locals gather oysters there and deep fry and eat them.

>> No.10052728

>>10051067

If you take 100 apple seeds from apples that all came from the same tree, you will get 100 different apple trees and none will be like the apple tree it came from.

>> No.10052750

>>10051310
It's a scene from Ren & Stimpy, but they've been drawn as qts.

>> No.10052777

>>10052750
I have an insatiable appetite for tiddies drawn in this style, preferably animated.

>> No.10052778
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>>10052713
I went in knowing this was nonsensical but you still got me to chuckle after googling.

>> No.10052784

>>10052777
Unfortunately I do not know where it's from. I just recognized the scene.

>> No.10052825

>>10052710
What? Why would you ever think there was?

>> No.10052897
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>>10052825
Not the same poster but....

and they don't taste like chicken either

>> No.10052901

>>10052897
There is literal chicken on these crackers. Your mouth must be retarded

>> No.10052914

>>10052897
I don't think our version has the same recipe as the American.

I wonder why Nabisco gave it this name when they started the range? Wouldn't Americans think of them as crackers?

>> No.10052921

Ketchup didn't include tomatoes until the 19th century because England is fucking retarded and wouldn't stop giving themselves lead poisoning. The citric acid would cause their utensils to put lead in the food.

>> No.10052926

>>10052636
Yeast extract, seppo cunt.

>> No.10052933

>>10052921
That sounds like bullshit.

>> No.10052939

>>10051290
Did I hear something about scientifically-grounded breakfast facts?!


>Is a food scientist
>Has breakfast food SKU's

>> No.10052945

>>10052921
Yep. All the times they were making other types of sauces and calling it ketchup they were saying "this stuff is supposed to be dominantly tomato! I wish we could try tomatoes, but we simply can't!"

Surely the true curiosity is that ketchup came to refer to the tomato variety only when that was only created relatively late.

>> No.10052954

>>10052933
I saw it on Food: fact or fiction. It was hilarious. Current season. Either episode 13 or 14. Season 3.

>> No.10052956

>>10052921
Yes, it was the citric acid in the tomatoes, but the vinegar they used in their alternative ketchup recipes was absolutely fine.

>> No.10052960

>>10052954
Still sounds like bullshit.

>> No.10052963

>>10052960
I don't care. That's facts, faggot. England is retarded.

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>>10052945

>> No.10052992

>>10052980
If that's not bait, why does it master bait?

>> No.10053006

Ham doesn't mean pork. A ham is a cut of meat.

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10053035

>>10051067

If you put roughly 20 apple cores in a food processor and drink it, you will give yourself cyanide poisoning and probably die.

>> No.10053043

>>10052960

Sounds like a half trush. Ketchup started as a fish based sauce and then developed into other shit such as tomato ketchup more recently, the lead poisoning likely retarded the popularity of the superior ketchup version.

>> No.10053122

>>10052713
I dont get it

>> No.10053126

>>10052921
Then what the fuck was “ketchup” back then? Vinegar and salt?

>> No.10053227

>>10053126
Lots of different things. A mushroom base was common, for instance. Duckduckgo it for yourself.

>> No.10053267

>>10052704
Not that guy but I think it's one of those things you know but you don't ever really think about until it's put right in your face. Like how there's a skeleton inside you. You know you have bones and you know you have skeleton but there's a kind of disconnect. Same with meat being muscle tissue probably because most people don't raise and kill their own food.

>> No.10053295

When I was a little kid about 6 years old (in the United States), I used to think that hamburgers came from cows but steaks came from horses. This was because horses were like the fast, beautiful version of cows, and steaks were the sleek, expensive version of burger

>> No.10053301

>>10053035
also you can make a pie with the apples you decored, eat some apple pie with icecream and then drink your cyanide paste

>>10053122
they're testicles

>> No.10053712

Margarine has nothing to do with butter.

>> No.10053935

>>10052636
No different from eating pussy, really. Puts hair on your chest.

>> No.10053940

>>10053935
That's not where eating pussy puts hair.

>> No.10053952

>>10051521
are you retarded that looks nothing like drawn together

>> No.10053960

>>10053267
>Buy a chicken
>Look at it
>I wonder where this comes from
And what did you think a skeleton was if not the bones keeping us upright?

>> No.10053966

Money can be exchanged for goods and services, including but not limited to, food and food services.

>> No.10053991

>>10053960
I think you missed their point

>> No.10053997

>>10053991
Then what is the point?

>> No.10054003

>>10051067
The relationship between cucumber and pickle

>> No.10054006

>>10053997
you’re too far gone at this point. It’s not that complicated, you just don’t get it.

>> No.10054016

>>10054006
If it means I don't get how people don't understand that meat is muscle I don't even mind.

>> No.10054206

>>10053267
>it's one of those things you know but you don't ever really think about
Don't generalize, you're just a little slow.

>> No.10054209

>>10053991
>their
That's not how grammar fucking works. Fuck off to reddit.

>> No.10054212

>>10051539
Thats a blatant lie

>> No.10054321

>>10052777
Wierd al's close but no cigar video has some if I'm not mistaken.

>> No.10055920
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>>10051067
Usually, if something is "instant" to fix, that quick preparation also means that the food is more likely to pass quickly through your body without providing as many nutrients or as much satiation.

>> No.10056954

>>10051067
Bananas are categorized as a berry

>> No.10056970

>>10054016
i think they're pointing out that we're meat as well
and could be eaten, as such

>> No.10056974

>>10052728

That's not really a food fact, that's more Biology.

That is why apple trees and other fruit trees are cloned.

All Red Delicious Apples came from the same tree.

>> No.10056982

>>10053295
i lol'd at this kidlogic

>> No.10056992

>>10056954
You can thank "Berry" Obama for that one.

>> No.10057005

iirc, Worcestershire sauce is fermented sardines

according to my grandmother, ceasar salad dressing also contains ground sardines

>> No.10057016

>>10055920
>momscience master degree
you are a moron.

>> No.10057023

>>10057005
Worcestershire is made with anchovies, not sardines.

>> No.10057040

Fanta was originally called Fantasie and was invented in Nazi Germany as a replacement for Coke after the Coca-Cola Company stopped exporting the syrup to Germany

>> No.10057052

Doritos were invented in Disney World.

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>>10052963
>>10052921
Heres another interesting food fact

>> No.10057127

>>10053126
mushroom or squash

>> No.10057134

>>10056970
I understand that, and the only difference between my cats and my food is that one has been killed and prepared into deliciousness. It's not such a strange concept for me at least.

>> No.10057149

>>10057090
It failed because it was a lower quality burger at a higher price. Not everyone is obsessed with shoving as much meat into their gullet as physically possible in the shortest span of time.

>> No.10057155

>>10051067
This artwork is awful to look at.

>> No.10057156

>>10051067
>I thought treacle was mined from the ground because of something I misheard as a child
>Myoglobin aint blood
>Brussel Sprout=Cauliflower=cabbage=kale=brocoli
>Lime =/= lemons (I grew up in India, all "lemons" there are yellow limes)

>> No.10057170

>>10057156
>Brussel sprout=Cauliflower=cabbage=kale=brocoli

That is wrong though. They are very different things.

>> No.10057189

>>10057170
they are all cultivars of the same species.
Brassica Something
It's like they are different dog breeds.

>> No.10057196

>>10057189
>>10057170
Shit he's fucking right you know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea

>> No.10057201

>>10057189

>Turkey, Chicken, and Duck all taste the exact same
>They are all birbs.

That is not how things work.
They are all structured differently, and taste different from each other. They are in no way the same thing.

Different dog breeds don't taste the same, and I assume black people taste different from white people.
Different subspecies taste different from one another.

>> No.10057216

>>10057201
I'm not saying they taste the same, I learned in my teens that a bunch of very different looking plants were the same species and it impressed me.
Cool your jets hot shot.

>> No.10057240

>>10057196
That's like saying all apples come from the same plant though.

>> No.10057259

>>10057149
>americans
>not shoving 17% more burger at the same or lower price down their throats
no americans are so stupid that they saw the 3 in the denominator and figured that 3 is less than 4 so a third is less than a quarter

>> No.10057266

>>10051067
I was kinda surprised that "sweetbread" refers to a bunch of different glands, not just the thymus, although that is typical

>> No.10057290

>>10057170
you're ignorant but I forgive you

>> No.10057388

>>10051067
Why does this remind me of the "art" of that overrated faggot Vimhomeless?

>> No.10057409

>>10052636
so?

>> No.10057413

Pee is stored in the balls

>> No.10057431

>>10054003
sounds like a dirty book about a older guy and a youth

>> No.10057434

>>10051067
japanese people are so healthy because their cuisine sucks

>> No.10057444

>>10055920
You are only correct in the sense that most processed foods have a lot of sugar.

>> No.10057919

>>10057156
>I thought treacle was mined from the ground because of something I misheard as a child

I think you probably read that one on a Discworld novel, Anon.

>> No.10058028

Raw beans are apparently fucking poisonous. Nobody eats raw beans, so hardly anyone is aware and there are no warnings on packages.

>> No.10058038

>>10058028
have you ever tired to eat a raw bean? it's like eating a little rock

>> No.10058045

>>10056974
One terrible, terrible tree

>> No.10058060

>>10058028
Apple seeds contain cyanide.
Same with raw almonds.

>> No.10058065

>>10051067
I hate John K.'a animation style so fucking much.

>> No.10058078

>Fruits are literally plant ovaries. By eating the fruit, you fill yourself with the seeds (plant eggs), and then give birth to the eggs through your own ass

What the fuck nature.

>> No.10058125

>>10058078
Circle of life, nigga

>> No.10058279

>>10053940
If u abo and huff gas it does.

>> No.10058447

>>10052636
I spread yeast inside your mum

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>>10057005
Caesar dressing is also made with anchovy

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>>10057134
The only difference between your cats and your food is not necessarily made up with cat, whereas your cats are almost certainly made of cat.

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>>10058819
Let’s try again..,

The only difference between your cats and your food is that your food is not necessarily made of cat, whereas your cats almost certainly consist of 100% cat.

English is my first language. No idea why that came out that way.

>> No.10058929

>>10055920
Not actually true outright but 'instant' meals are typically shitty knock off versions of a dish (think TV dinner Salbury steak compared to a traditional Salbury) and is usually made of cheap cuts and loaded with sugars.
So it's wrong to state outright in that just because something is made to be 'instant' doesn't mean it's necessarily shitty quality but it is true because it usually is shitty quality products used.

>> No.10058944

>>10057170
Well sort of they originally were one plant but they were cultivated to be different breeds
There is a similar family of mustard greens too like collards, mustard greens, bok choy I think it's like most crustiferous greens are also different breeds of the same plant mankind has been growing since the dawn of civilization

>> No.10058948

>>10057259
Americans do learn fractions asshole it's probably more that the burger wasn't promoted as heavily and A&Ws are outnumbered by McDs 8 to 1

>> No.10058952

>>10057919
Lewis Carroll most likely the story the Hatter tells in the first Alice in Wonderland is about a girl trapped in a well who eats treacle

>> No.10058963

>>10052897
Hands down the best cracker.

>> No.10058974

>>10058852
And the only reason we don't eat cats or dogs is because they were more valuable alive than dead back in the day killing rats and being our buddies. Same with horses except Sweden.
Also why we typically have cow not bull (I know bull is tough but you can braise it and not all of the animal is dense sinewy muscle, same with Rooster save a few dishes).

>> No.10058978

>>10057090
Marketers have no actual way of knowing why a given product fails, they just work off of incomplete data that is not collected in a rigorous fashion. That people misunderstood fractions is simply a guess about why the burgers did not sell well, and sounds a lot like something a marketer would come up with to push the blame onto the consumer rather than it being something wrong with the burger or advertising.

>> No.10058983

>>10051067
>all fruit loops are the same flavor
big if true

>> No.10059022

>>10057090
Not actually true. Any good marketing organization will send out surveys and/or organize various focus groups to get feedback from target demographics both before and after implementing a new marketing campaign. Before to determine what product or features of the product they intend to focus on, after to judge the success (or failure) of the campaign and decide if the campaign is worth renewing/steering in a different direction or whether they'll just shitcan the whole thing.

>> No.10059024

>>10051067
Hot water actually freezes fast than cold water.
It sounds like bullshit and I thought the chef that told me about it was taking the piss because I was still young but it's a thing science isn't certain about why yet.
Look up the Mpemba effect

>> No.10059057

>>10059024
You don't into BTU's eh?

>> No.10059213

Onions are sugary.

A raw white onion doesn't taste sweet at all IMO. But cook it down, and it's as sweet as candy.

Thanks for the diabetes, onions.

>> No.10060518

They are actaully called crisps not chips

>> No.10061748

>>10057266
I was surprised that with wasn't a type of bread that is sweet, but I was happy to learn what it really was and try it.

>> No.10062268

>>10059024
Mpemba effect is a lie, it's just affirmative action for African 'scientists'

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>>10058800
>mfw the girl makes the nu-male face for the soy goy

>> No.10062755

>>10057388
>Vimhomeless
>Overrated
The only time I hear anyone mention Vim is in Dolan Girls threads on /trash/ or when people say he's overrated.

>> No.10062770

>>10062716
This is the dumbest evolution this already dumb as rocks meme could have taken.

>> No.10062840

>>10062770
You sound cranky. Ran out of soy creamer for your single source fair trade coffee?

>> No.10063091

>>10056974
We don't eat cats or dogs because it's unreasonable to raise an animal on a food source we could eat, only to eat that animal in turn.

All commericial livestock eats food indigestible to humans, that's why it was domesticated in the first place. To turn inedible grass into delicious meat.

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>>10062770
How fucking hard is it to keep your mouth closed while being photographed? It ain't like you're going down a roller coaster or even screaming; these people are literally just opening their mouths as wide as possible for the fun of it.

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>>10053966

>> No.10063181

>>10051067
for me it was learning that not everything should be cooked on max heat

>> No.10063197

>>10053122
oysters live in the sea
there are no large bodies of water in the rocky mountains
rocky mountain oysters are bull testicles

>> No.10064852

>>10051067
sauce on pic please

>> No.10065124

>>10064852
uh....no?

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Until about 5 days ago I didn’t know broccoli florets were actually just cut off of regular broccoli. I thought they were just grown as tiny broccolis.

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>>10051067
all skittles are the same flavor as well. they are just sprayed with different perfumes to trick you.

>> No.10065522

>>10058078
Huh. I thought the flesh of a fruit was more akin to a plant placenta, and the pollen tube-stick things on the blossom were ovaries/dicks.

>> No.10065590

>>10054209
>to
Go back two 9gag you retarded faggot, you clearly don't understand grammar