[Food fact 1] German Chocolate Cake is named after its creator, Sam German, and in fact, has nothing to do with Germany.
[Food fact 2] Though Madagascar now produces 80% of the world’s vanilla, the vine is native to Mexico. Mayans were the first to cultivate it in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula. They flavored their chocolate drink with vanilla.
[Food fact 3] The Christmas pickle is a supposedly German tradition, where you hide a pickle in the Christmas tree, and whoever finds it first gets a reward. Apparently, this is a well-known tradition in the US, but not of German origin and in fact completely unknown in Germany.
[Food fact 4] Texas no longer offers a special "last meal" to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
[Food fact 5] Domino's delivers the most pizzas in the world, at over a million pizzas per day.
[Food fact 6] A 2004 study found that pregnant women who ate lots of chocolate had reduced prenatal stress, and their babies at 6 months old had a more agreeable temperament than pregnant women who ate no chocolate.
[Food fact 7] In 1941, the world’s largest seed bank (Created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, scientists inside the vault refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
[Food fact 8] In 2012, beekeepers in France were confused to discover that their bees were producing blue and green honey. Investigations later found it was the result of bees foraging in the waste from an M&Ms factory.
[Food fact 9] Most wild almonds are really poisonous and “eating even a few dozens in one sitting can be fatal” and that how we bred safe ones remains a mystery.
[Food fact 10] Granny Smiths, Fujis, and Pink Ladies (Types of apples) can all be traced back to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the ancestor apples still grow wild there in the Tian Shan mountains.
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