37 Disgusting Facts About Food (We Wish We Didn’t Know)

37 Disgusting Facts About Food (We Wish We Didn’t Know)

Well, we've got some bad news: you were right to fear bees. At the end of the day, they're a bunch of angry, nosey little jerks who often choose to expel their own guts, just to inflict some brief, intense pain upon you, rather than silently suffer the indignity of being swatted at. And yet, they have the best PR in the bug business: It's now common knowledge that bees are integral to sustaining life on this increasingly troubled planet, and they must be protected at all costs.

But we posit that you should be scared of them, and here's why: Their sweet, nutritious honey – the rent they pay for living in those awesome little high-rise condos, protected from bears and other predators – can be extremely poisonous. Like, lethal to babies poisonous. May cause paralysis in full grown humans poisonous. Think about that the next time the Honey Nut Cheerios bee sings his siren song. What does he have to gain from this exchange? Qui bono?

Just food for thought. 

More on that, and other freaky food facts, below:

Corn Flakes are supposed to suppress your desire to J О. Mother, Guess You'll Have to open the other Package of Kellogg's Kellegg's TOASTED CORN FLAKES TOASTED The Kind with the Flavor- Made tocas Selected White Cora CORN THE GENUINE ALWAYS HAS THIS SIGNATURE FLAKES 11/11/00 CRACKED COM John Harvey Kellogg wanted to realize Sylvester Graham's dream of no one masturbating ever again. So he invented a plain, tasteless flake --scientifically, the most un-f*ckable cereal shape -- that we might break fast in unhorny peace.

Metro

Chances are, your ground beef has some pink slime. 70% of ground beef available at supermarkets contains pink slime, which is a cheap substitute for ground beef that's basically beef trimmings sprayed with ammonia to make it edible. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

ABCNews

Twinkies were a desperate ploy to justify Depression-era machinery. Hostess Twinkies 2013AL07 Hostess CRACKED.COM During the Depression, factory machinery excisted on kind of a use-it-or-lose-it basis. A baking company had to think fast when strawberry season was over, so they slopped some banana creme into their strawberry shortcake pans.

NY Post

Scroll down for the next article

MUST READ

Forgot Password?