26Real Wasabi
95%-99% of the Wasabi you eat at American sushi restaurants is actually horseradish dyed green. You are not getting the real thing.
27. The Germans have a party food called 'Mettigel'. It's a hedgehog made of raw pork, with olives for eyes and onion quills.
28. ChiChi is a dish created by inmates prisons across USA. It consists of Ramen, Cheese, Rice, Beans, Honey, BBQ sauce, which are all the items commonly found in commissaries. It is cooked in secret using an extension cord connected to nail clippers. Most prisons have their own unique recipe.
29. Garum is a type of fish sauce that the Romans adored. It smelled so bad that Garum factories could only be found outside the city walls, but it was still the ancient world's favorite topping, which accompanied most of their foods.
30. Avocado Toast is not a new dish but has been consumed in San Francisco for 135 years.
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31McDonald's Milk Shake
One medium McDonald's milk shake contains 630 calories, the same as a whole average dinner meal. One milkshake also contains 90 grams of sugar which is more than your daily maximum recommended sugar intake of around 75 grams.
32. The reason that cashews are expensive is because they grow individually on a apple like fruit and must be removed manually. Their shells are also toxic.
33. Sausages have been commonly referred to as "dogs" since the 1800s due to a belief that sausage makers used dog meat in their sausages. Consumption of dog meat was common in Germany up to the early 1900s so this suspicion was "occasionally justified."
34. In the early/mid-1900s, a dish called "candle salad" was popular. It involved a banana stuck through a pineapple wheel with whipped cream dripping off. It looked exactly like you'd imagine.
35. “Persian” is a kind of pastry that’s available only in the Canadian city of Thunder Bay. Its recipe is a tightly guarded secret to the point that people don’t actually know what kind of berry is used for its topping.
