It would seem that we do not know about this dish. But all the same, there are unusual facts about food. We present you a selection of unusual and informative about the food.
The greatest course in the world is the roast camel. He stuffed sheep, which in turn chickens with a filling that with a filling of fish, and it is stuffed with eggs. Such a simple enough dish is prepared by a Bedouin wedding. I'm shocked
The oldest soup, which is confirmed by archaeological research, has been welded from the hippo. This happened about 6000 years BC.
Worcestershire sauce
This same sauce is believed dissolved made of fish. This popular condiment in England is made from dissolved anchovies (anchovy). For this fish soaked in vinegar until complete dissolution of the state - are also present in the sauce remains of bones, scales, and other parts of the fish.
Ice cream on a stick
Recently besides the traditional Ice Cream we have the opportunity to try an ice lolly, which tastes like frozen juice. The inventor of this product - Frank Epperson, who in 1905 had mixed powdered soda, water and juice, forgetting this mixture on the street. That night in San Francisco was freezing, and woke up the next day, "inventor" found that a mixture of hardened together with the finding in it a stick, creating a tasty treat. After 18 years, he patented the product, calling it a Popsicle.
Dynamite
Peanut peanut oil is a raw material for the production of glycerol from which in turn is produced nitroglycerin, one of the components of dynamite. However, it should be said that nitroglycerin may also be obtained using other raw materials - peanuts only one of the options.
Coconut water
It is believed that coconut water (not milk) can in extreme cases be used as a substitute for human blood plasma, and it's true. This fluid (not coconut milk, which is extracted from coconut pulp, namely transparent liquid contained in the fruit) is sterile and has an ideal level of pH. This liquid is used as a source of plant nutrients to the fetus.
Oil Oil
tea tea, or Po Cha - a traditional drink in Tibet, which is made from salt, tea and oil produced from the milk of yaks. Ordinary Tibetans drink per day to 50-60 cups of this tea! Some foodies add a little flour into the drink as we add sugar.
Hot chocolate
Ancient Maya did most hot chocolate - they added to it pepper and corn. The remains found by archaeologists in the drink cups showed that it was in the 5th century AD. It happened as follows. Fruit of the cocoa is pulverized to a paste, then mixed with water, hot pepper, corn, and other spices.
Apple, potato, onion
If you cover your nose, you will not be able to distinguish the taste of apples, potatoes or onions. Scientists do experiments to prove it. Group of volunteers tightly closed their eyes, covered the nose, then allowed to try one of these fruits. In most cases, people could not figure that out, he eats. It's unbelievable, but this experience proves that the nose plays a big role in shaping the taste of food. Since apple, potatoes and onions have approximately the same consistency, so the brain can not distinguish between them. You can try to do this experiment at home, but I warn you - as soon as you open your nose, you immediately realize that they ate
Bananas Banana trees are not really trees and giant grass. The large trunk is the so-called herbal psevdostvolom on which grows a bunch of yellow, green or red bananas. After this psevdostvol dies, and in its place grows a new one. Catch the difference - he was a regular in the trees, in the grass, "one-off". Small bunches of bananas, which are sold by us are not in clusters - it is their small fragments, and the mass of clusters can be up to 50 pounds. Bananas that we eat, the special - they are specifically bred to not have seeds inside, so you will not be able to grow a banana from a purchased. The fruits of wild bananas contain a lot of large stones
Ketchup east
appears, known to all ketchup really is of Chinese origin! Two words from the Chinese province Fudzhan (Fujian) is used to describe a fish brine and tomato sauce, and they are very similar in sound to the word "ketchup". These words ke-DAC (ke-tsap) and kyo-Chiapa (kio-chiap). West later ketchup was made from fish and spices, or mushrooms. In fact, mushroom ketchup is still possible to buy in England and it is a natural source of monosodium glutamate - the only known substance that stimulates the taste._
7-UP
drink 7-up, invented in 1920, contained in its composition Li - one of the medications, prescription now from manic-depressive psychosis. Initially, 7-up was released as a remedy for a hangover due to the content of lithium citrate. He was released shortly after the panic on Wall Stree (the Great Depression), and was called at that time «Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda» (Li-lime soda). The name was soon changed, but Li was part of the beverage to 50-ies of the last century. Interesting myths exist about the name of the drink. Some argue that the original recipe was 7 components, others remember the atomic mass of lithium, which is seven.
Frozen fish ice cream sold in Japan with taste octopus, buffalo tongue, cactus, chicken wings and crab.
Revisiting Japan. To beef was tender, the animals they kill at night, in a dream. Before that, they are given a beer and massaged three times a day.
Legend has it that the French Roquefort cheese came by chance, when a shepherd threw his lunch in a cave, chasing a pretty girl held. A few months later, he accidentally discovered an abandoned cheese, which by that time was covered with mold, but it was proved delicious.
During the Second World War, Germany, and the Soviet Union to lack of food, which is why dogs were used in the food, horses and exotic animals from zoos.
In Madagascar, make stew out of a zebra with Tomato
In Fiji, make a particular dish. To do this, do not feed the pig a week, then give her something to eat veal, and a few hours later killed. After recovered from the stomach of half-digested food that is prepared and eaten. Bue ...
Restaurant in Pennsylvania offers wanting a hamburger weighing 4 pounds. No one has eaten it completely ...
In Sweden, make dumplings made from flour, blood, reindeer and salt.
During the Renaissance it was safer to drink beer than water: fermentation destroys bacteria that cause cholera and dysentery.
In the XVI century, China's most common method of settling accounts with life was to eat a pound of salt.
Dry wine is called dry because it completely ("dry"), fermented sugar.
Charles de Gaulle once said of France: "How can you govern a country in which 246 kinds of cheese?"