27 Delectable Little Origin Stories of Our Favorite Foods

Did you know that bread predates agriculture by about 4,000 years?
27 Delectable Little Origin Stories of Our Favorite Foods
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While slugging back some eggnog on a hot summer day, we began wondering where this thick, delicious concoction came from. Hmm, should we give away the answer here, or let you read on to find out? We don’t want to give away all of our secrets right away. Like, what next? We’re gonna spill the beans on where we found eggnog in the middle of the summer?

Pfft, we wouldn’t blow up our spot like that. As you all know, when you have a sweet eggnog connect, you hold it tight to the chest.

Pound Cake

The recipe for pound cake was created to accommodate the mostly illiterate cooks of the 1700s. For simplicity, it called for one pound of each of the ingredients. CRACKED.COM

Peanut Butter

CRACKED.COM Peanut butter was created as a health food for rich people. It was invented as a way for patients at very high-end health resorts to get lots of protein without having to chew.

Ice Cream

CRACKED.COM Thomas Jefferson made ice cream big in the U.S. In the early 1800s, everyone paid attention to what the president served his guests, and Jefferson's guests ate plenty of then-new ice cream. That played a huge part in quickly making ice cream a popular treat.

Pop-Tarts

Kellogg's The creation of Pop-Tarts was a result of innovations in dog food. toaster pastries In the early 1960s, General Foods used the technology that let their Gaines Burgers dog food patties stay fresh without refrigeration to create a children's breakfast pastry. Real Frun Kellogg's immediately stole Post's idea and created the Pop-Tart. CRACKED COM

Sweetza Pizza

For centuries, pizza was sweet food. Ingredients like jam, currants, and milk were common in traditional pizza recipes. Savory pizza recipes, with ingredients like tomatoes and mozzarella, only started to crop up in the 20th century. CRACKED.COM

Cocoa

The Mayans once used cocoa beans as currency. They even faced the same problem as contemporary banknotes and coins - counterfeiting. Mayan forgers would remove a bean's insides and then fill it with mud. CRACKED.COM

Processed Cheese

Processed cheese is considered to be an all-American food, but it was originally made in Switzerland (and shipped overseas) by Walter Gerber and Fritz Stettler in 1911, as a method of elongating the shelf life of cheese. CRACKED.COM

Danish Pastries

Danish pastries are actually French and were introduced to Denmark because of a bakers' strike. At the time of the strike, the pastry was already popular in Austria. When Danish bakery owners imported Austrian bakers to break the strike, the pastry came along with them. Even now, the pastry is known as Wienerbrod (Viennese pastry) in Denmark. CRACKED.COM

Coffee

Coffee was originally consumed as a food before it became a beverage. Years before the innovation of coffee as a drink, coffee berries were mixed with animal fat to function as an energy food for early East African tribes. CRACKED COM

Fortune Cookies

Ever wondered where all those fortunes in your cookes come from? Thank Donald Lau. You will burn out in 30 years. Donald was the Chief Fortune Writer at Wonton Foods - which claims to be America's largest fortune cookie manufacturer -for 30 years. Не used to write around 100 fortunes a year. Не retired in 2017, claiming writer's block. GRACKED.COM

Bread As A Plate

In the Middle Ages, bread was used as a plate. Trencher bread from Wroclaw, Poland People ate food off of thick, flat slices of trencher bread (which was usually just old regular bread, but in some places was a specially made type of bread). Used trencher bread slices were usually given to the poor. CRACKED.COM

Wedding Cake

CRACKED.COM Ancient Romans used the precursor of the modern wedding cake in marriage ceremonies. The groom would break the cake (made out of wheat or barley) over the bride's head, signifying the marriage was sealed and bringing good fortune.

Eggnog

Eggnog was invented in medieval Britain. Because the ingredients were expensive, the nobility used eggnog in toasts to show off their wealth. CRACKED COM

Animal Fries

Even In-N-Out doesn't know the origin of the name for their ever popular secret ANIMAL FRIES. NALOLI Kind. CRACKED COM :

Frozen Concentrated Juice

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

CRACKED.COM The original chocolate chip cookie recipe was sold to Nestlé for $1.

Pozole

Pozole, a traditional Mexican stew, has origins in cannibalism. Pre-Hispanic people prepared it with the flesh of human sacrifices during festivals. The tradition of making pozole on special occasions survives, just with pork instead. CRACKED.COM

Cheesecake

Cheesecake came before cream cheese. The roots of cheesecake can be traced back to ancient Greece. Instead of using cream cheese, the Greeks simply pounded cheese to achieve a pasty consistency. Cream cheese came centuries later in 1872. CRACKED.COM

The First Macarons

Although Macarons were popularized in France, they're originally from Italy. Catherine de' Medici's Italian pastry chefs are believed to have brought the recipe over when she married the Duc d'Orleans. CRACKED.COM

Ice Cream

Back in the 1900s, before the waffle cone was invented, ice cream was served in small glass cups and sold for a penny - aptly named 'penny licks.' Customers would lick the cups clean and return them to the vendor, who would reuse them. The unhygienic nature of this practice didn't come into consideration until the outbreak of tuberculosis. CRACKED.COM

French Toast

In France, French toast is known as pain predu, which means lost bread. The name French toast came about in the 17th century in England. Poor Europeans with families to feed knew that stale old bread could be made edible by enriching and moistening it with milk and eggs. CRACKED.COM

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27 Delectable Little Origin Stories of Our Favorite Foods

Vindaloo

Vindaloo was actually exported to India by Portuguese explorers. Although a mainstay in most Indian restaurants, vindaloo is originally a Portuguese dish. Even its name is an Indianized version of the original name, carne de vinha d'alhos. CRACKED.COM

Cured Meats

Attila the Hun's army cured meat by placing it under the saddle. As they rode, their horses' salty sweat would gather around the pieces of meat, making them last longer. The CRACKED COM meat was also tenderized due to being pressed between the saddle and the horse.

Salisbury Steak

Dr. James Salisbury invented Salisbury steak as a treatment for his patients with anemia, colitis, gout, rheumatism, arteriosclerosis, tuberculosis, and asthma. Не prescribed that they eat it three times a day, along with lots of hot water to rinse out their digestive systems. CRACKED.COM

Bread

Bread actually predates agriculture by four thousand years. Archaeologists found the charred remains of 14-millennia-old bread at a hunter-gatherer site in Jordan. The discovery suggests that the desire to make bread might be one of the driving factors behind the decision to settle down and start farming. CRACKED.COM

Butter

CRACKED COM STATES TELLINA 54922A LEON ENcople In ancient Ireland and Scotland, butter was such a valued commodity that it was used to pay rent and taxes.

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