10 Fun Food Facts

May 19, 2013

10 Fun Facts About Food

Did You Know?

  1. Lemons have more sugar in them than strawberries do.
  2. Mayan Legend has it that tortillas were invented as far back as 10,000 B.C. by a peasant who was trying to please his king.
  3. A regular size coke has the equivalent of 11 cubes of sugar.
  4. Texas Pete hot sauce us actually made in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  Click here to read about the legend of Texas Pete.
  5. North Alabama is the home of the regionally famous mayonnaise based white barbeque sauce. The sauce was invented by Robert Gibson at Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q. Want to know the ingredients?  Click here for Big Bob's recipe.
  6. Goat meat is higher in protein than beef, low in cholesterol, and lower in fat than chicken.
  7. The first known soft drink is not Coca-Cola as many might think.  One year before Coca-Cola was invented, Waco, Texas pharmacist Charles “Doc” Alderton mixed the first batch of Dr. Pepper. (In 1885!)
  8. The pineapple got it’s name from the Spanish word pina which means pine.  Explorers thought that the pineapple looked like a pine cone.
  9. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to serve French fries at the White House.
  10. Cranberries got their name because their flowers resemble cranes.