Food Facts Galore
1,000+ Bizarre and Intriguing Tidbits from the Culinary World
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GWA Books
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Food Facts Galore: 1,000+ Bizarre and Intriguing Tidbits from the Culinary World
Forget lengthy exposés—Food Facts Galore delivers rapid-fire culinary revelations perfect for trivia nights, coffee-table browsing, or justifying your distrust of peanut butter. This isn’t an encyclopedia; it’s a treasure chest of jaw-dropping one-liners and “wait, really?!” moments mined from global kitchens, FDA loopholes, and history’s weirdest pantries.
Sample Snacks Inside:
- FDA “Oops”: Your peanut butter can legally contain 5 rat hairs per 100g. Your strawberry yogurt? Might include beaver butt gland secretions (labeled as “natural flavor”).
- Crunchy Critters: Mexico’s $50-a-plate “insect caviar” (ant larvae), Cambodian fried tarantulas born from genocide survival, and Swedish surströmming—fermented herring so foul it’s banned on airplanes.
- Illegal Eats: Sardinia’s maggot-jumping cheese (wear goggles!), Icelandic shark meat buried for months, and Chinese “virgin boy eggs” boiled in urine.
- Future Bites: Lab-grown mammoth meat, 3D-printed wedding cakes, and edible water bottles made from seaweed.
Organized into snackable chapters like Gross Food Industry Secrets and Dishes That Defy Logic, this book serves facts faster than a sushi conveyor belt. Each chapter serves up bizarre histories, shocking industry standards, and cultural oddities—all in digestible, one-sentence nuggets.
Perfect For:
- Quick listens between meetings
- Dinnertime conversation starters
- Reigniting your fear of grocery stores
No deep dives, no lectures—just 1,000+ easily digestible facts that’ll make you rethink every bite.
Warning: Side effects may include compulsive fact-spouting and sudden cravings for fried tarantulas.