Did You Know? - Interesting Food Facts and Trivia

[Natasha]

19 minutes ago, abrakamowse said:

I never thought there was so many crazy things in food @Natasha thanks for this thread I am more aware now hehehe...

I found out "How Much Mouse Poop, Maggots, and Cigarette Butts the FDA Allows in Your Food"

 

Lol

 

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/g19934852/common-food-contaminants/

Yeah I knew that about hot dogs, they're sometimes called a rat on a stick, because of the amount of rat contamination in the meat factories.

Interesting link, thanks for sharing, Abra!

[abrakamowse]

@Natasha  You are welcome! In reality we can say that we eat anything... funny.

hahaha...

[Charlotte]

*Sits and waits patiently for @Michael569 to show up with his vast amount of knowledge*

[bejapuskas]

I've seen people put coins into their pies, that was on purpose though

[Charlotte]

3 minutes ago, bejapuskas said:

I've seen people put coins into their pies, that was on purpose though

Why though? 

[bejapuskas]

@Charlotte  Idk, probably to make the person who gets the coin cheer up a bit when they bite it  

[Charlotte]

@bejapuskas They could chip there teeth thus being even more unhappy... ? Zero logic ?

[Seed]

29 minutes ago, Charlotte said:

@bejapuskas They could chip there teeth thus being even more unhappy... ? Zero logic ?

Or choke?!? Maybe we're just pessimists  @Charlotte

[abrakamowse]

2 hours ago, bejapuskas said:

I've seen people put coins into their pies, that was on purpose though

We have a tradition in my country that I think it comes from Italy, but I am not sure about that.  It's that every 29 of the month we eat gnocchi , is like a pasta. And we put a coin, but in the bottom of the plate, under the plate not inside the food hehehe...

And it is supposed to bring luck to the person who does that...

[bejapuskas]

@Seed @Charlotte  That's why you eat your meals slowly  (of course it's just a materialist traddition, I don't really like these )

@abrakamowse  We also do that on Christmas with our carp and potato salad. We usually add a lottery ticket and a fish scale.

[abrakamowse]

5 minutes ago, bejapuskas said:

We also do that on Christmas with our carp and potato salad. We usually add a lottery ticket and a fish scale.

Nice! That's sound really yummy. And what do you do with the fish scale? It is also something to bring good luck?

Edited July 10, 2019 by abrakamowse

[bejapuskas]

@abrakamowse Yes  Same thing. Are you from Italy?

[abrakamowse]

Just now, bejapuskas said:

@abrakamowse Yes  Same thing. Are you from Italy?

No, I am from Uruguay but he have a big immigration from Spain and Italy in the 40's and 50's. So the population is almost half and half descendant from Italians and Spanish people.

My ancestors are from Spain...

But we have like a popular way of talking (spanish mixed with italian) that is called "lunfardo". It's like slang. We mix some words in italian with spanish.

[bejapuskas]

@abrakamowse  Oh so you speak that? Sounds interesting  

[abrakamowse]

30 minutes ago, bejapuskas said:

@abrakamowse  Oh so you speak that? Sounds interesting  

Yes, it's just basically spanish with some italian words and sometimes we change the order of the syllables, like backwards hehehe...

instead of saying "cabeza" (that means head in english) they say "zabeca" they do it backwards but with syllables not with just the letters backwards.

Like a jargon. 

[bejapuskas]

@abrakamowse Oh nice  

[abrakamowse]

@bejapuskas

[Charlotte]

@Seed exactly! ? Plus money taste like shhiiiittttttt

[bejapuskas]

@Charlotte @Seed  You are just pessimists ? 

[Charlotte]

@bejapuskas go suck a coin ??