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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Food Weird-O-Pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Food and Drink

Food Weird-O-Pedia: The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Food and Drink

Palmer, Alex

Paperback

Series: Weird-O-Pedia

Food WritingGeneral Reference

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ISBN10: 1510763740
ISBN13: 9781510763746
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub
Published: Aug 24 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Hundreds of weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of food and drink oddities! A perfect gift for foodies and trivia fans alike!

Food Weird-o-Pedia offers up hundreds of off-kilter bits of info about food that will make you rethink what you know about even those dishes you've been eating your whole life. Organized in sections such as Between-Meal Tidbits: Curious Facts about Snacks and Spice Up Your Life: Unexpected morsels about condiments, sauces and spices, each chapter offers an alphabetical encyclopedia of strange facts that will give you plenty to chew over whether reading from cover-to-cover or just flipping to a random page during a lunch break.

Learn weird and obscure facts about fruits, vegetables, baked goods, meat, dairy, seafood, junk food, condiments, sauces, spices, beverages, desserts, and more, such as:

  • Cherries may have killed the twelfth president of the United States.
  • Why we call that vulgar sound we make by putting our tongue between our lips and blowing out a raspberry.
  • Enzymes on the inside of a banana peel actually encourage splinters to move toward the skin's surface.
  • Dark soy sauce contains ten times the antioxidants of red wine and contributed to a decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease.
  • The most egg yolks ever found in a single egg is nine.
  • Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.
  • Hershey's Kisses get their names from the smooching sound and motion the machine made when it popped the candy onto the conveyor belt.
  • And many, many more!

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