Facts about food!

Yes! There's a lot of things you don't know about food!

Originally carrots were found in a variety of colors including purple, white, black, yellow and red. Orange carrots did not appear until the Dutch Royal House of Orange was in power and the Dutch decided therefore to breed an orange carrot by using a mutant yellow carrot seed from North Africa. WOW! Carrots have Vitamin A which is known to prevent "night blindness”! Eating carrots will help you to see in the dark! AWESOME!
 
The ancient Egyptians worshipped the onion, believing that its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternity. Of all the vegetables that had their images created from precious metals by Egyptian artists, only the onion was made out of gold. Did they bury themselves with onions? That will be gross!
 
Did you think that fast-food is new? Well, let me tell you that you’re wrong! The remains of fast-food shops have been found in ancient ruins! Even ancient Greeks enjoyed take-out. The only thing that is new is the mass production, standard menus and recipes of fast-food "chains." Wow!
 
The most expensive coffee in the world comes from civet poop, I'll never drink it, will you?
 
The earliest archeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6000 BC and it was hippopotamus soup! Well this one I would try it... I didn't know soup was so old!
 
The Popsicle was invented by an 11 year who kept it secret for 18 years. The inventor was Frank Epperson who, in 1905, left a mixture of powdered soda and water out on the porch, which contained a stir stick. That night, temperatures in San Francisco reached record low temperature. When he woke the next morning, he discovered that it had frozen to the stir stick, creating a fruit flavored ice treat that he named the epsicle. 18 years later he patented it and called it the Popsicle. How difficult can it be to patent a frozen drink with a stick? WOW!