Burmese Food

Interesting Food Facts

Carrots were originally purple.
“Spam” is short for 'spiced ham.'
Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
Avocados and watermelon are berries.
Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland.
Peanuts are not nuts.…they are legumes.
A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
Honey is made from nectar, and bee vomit.
Artichokes are flowers that are eaten as buds.
Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.
Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.
Peas are one the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil.
Apples, like pears and plums,  belong to the rose family.
Honey never spoils.   You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.
Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year.  So do cows.
The twists in pretzels are made to look like arms crossed in prayer.
Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
Canola oil is rapeseed and was renamed by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 “Canola” which is short for “Canadian oil.”
There are over 7,500 varieties of apples throughout the world, and it would take you 20 years to try them all if you had one each day.
The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%