YUMMY FOODS AND THEIR NAMES
Ashim Kumar Paul
After the
consecutive classes, presentations or exams, what allures you more is the
canteen where a number of mouth-watering appetisers are ready to cease your
hungers with its unbound delicacies. Besides, sometimes, you have to give in to
the tenderly force of your friends to celebrate your recent success in exam or somehow
you have managed to escape the class of a grumpy course teacher with the
unswerving help of your friends, and now you have to throw a diminutive party
in a restaurant in order to acknowledge their support. The mini party is always
overwhelmed with the appearance of some tasty snacks and drinks that make your
friends utter: “Dost, waiting for another
big treat by you”! However, those mouth-watering appetisers have unheard
history of their growth and amazing facts that are mostly unknown to us. Let’s
delve into the horizon of those interesting fact!
French toast
Contrast to its name, French toast
was not invented in France. In fact, French toast was around long before France
even existed as a country. A popular myth regarding the derivation of the name
“French toast” is that French toast actually originated from America,
specifically, being created in 1724. The name “French” came from the chef who
first made it, Joseph French. It is supposed that Mr. French was poor at
grammar and when he labelled it, simply forgot the apostrophe, as in: Frenchs
toast, instead of French’s toast.
However, North Americans call it
French toast for very similar reasons as to why they call fried potato strips
“French fries”. It is simply because, they were popularised in America by
French immigrants. Other names for French toast around the globe include: Eggy
Bread (Britain); Gypsy Toast (Britain); Poor Knights of Windsor (Britain);
Rabanada, served as a Christmas dessert (Portugal and Brazil); Torrijas, served
as an Easter dessert (Spain); Bombay Toast (Sri Lanka and Burma).
There are different processes in making
up French toast in different regions around the globe. In Scotland, French
toast is traditionally served with sausage between two slices of French toast,
eaten as a sandwich. It is also sometimes eaten with ketchup in Great Britain. In
India, French toast is made without sweeteners, typically being made with egg,
milk, salt, green chilli, and chopped onions and generally served with ketchup.
In France itself, French toast is highly sweetened and his served as a dessert
item, rather than served for breakfast, as in America and many other places.
Coca Cola
Coca-Cola holds its success as one of
the world’s most popular drink companies. The popular American brand is
recognised around the globe and sold in more than 200 countries. Furthermore,
there are thousands of subsidiary beverages that you might have no idea are
owned by Coke.
The
soda giant Coca-Cola has been a favourite drink for millions of people all over
the world for the last 100+ years. Throughout the years, the company has tried
everything under the sun to sell their products to whomever they could which
has brought a lot of controversy on to them. So let us look at some Amazing
facts about Coca-Cola!!!
·
It takes 2 litres of water to make just 1 litre
of Coke. In 2004, farmers in India held protests because Coca-Cola bottling
plants where basically bleeding the water wells dry.
·
Of
the 55 billion servings of all kinds of beverages drunk each day (other than
water), 1.7 billion are Coca-Cola trademarked/licensed drinks!
·
In
Chinese, the name Coca-Cola means "to make mouth happy"!
·
Coca-Cola trucks travel over 1,000,000
miles a day to supply consumers with soft drinks!
·
There are 7,000 Coca-Cola products
consumed worldwide every single second!
·
Coca-Cola
can be used to remove grease from clothes! It is as simple as emptying a can of
coke into a load of greasy clothes, adding the detergent, and run through a
regular cycle.
·
A
bottle of Coca-Cola has a PH scale of 2.8, and could dissolve a nail in just 4
days!
·
If
every drop of Coke ever produced were put in 8-ounce bottles and laid
end-to-end, they would reach the moon and back over 2,000 times!
·
Coca-Cola
spends more money on advertising than Microsoft and Apple combined!
Pizza
Pizza or one of its forms has been a basic part of the
Mediterranean diet since the Stone Age. This earliest form of pizza was crude
bread that was baked beneath the stones of the fire. After cooking, it was
seasoned with a variety of different toppings and used instead of plates and utensils
to sop up broth or gravies. Some say that the idea of using bread as a plate
came from the Greeks who ate flat round bread baked with an assortment of
toppings. It was eaten by the working man and his family because it was a
thrifty and convenient food. In the Sixth Century, B.C., at the height of the
Persian Empire, it is said that the soldiers of Darius the Great accustomed to
lengthy marches, baked a kind of bread flat upon their shields and then covered
it with cheese and dates. However, there are something interesting facts about
pizza that are shared below:
·
The largest pizza in the world was made in 1990 at Norwood Hypermarket in
South Africa. For the pizza, they used 500 kg of flour, 800 kg of cheese and
900 kg of tomato puree. The pizza was measured 37.4 meters, enough to secure an
entrance in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest pizza ever.
·
It is everyday meal, but there are days when more pizza is eaten more than
any time of the year. The most popular days to eat pizza are the Super Bowl
Sunday, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, the night before Thanksgiving and on
Halloween.
·
The word pizza was originally
spelled as “pitsa”. Americans eat billions of slices of pizza every year; in
fact the annual per capita pizza consumption is 23 pounds!
·
During TV news broadcasts, most
pizza is ordered during the weather forecast, and the delivery folks report
that women, perhaps not surprisingly, are better tippers!
·
Pizzerias represent 17% of all
restaurants!
·
The most expensive pizza was created by Domenico Crolla who used edible
gold, medallions of venison, sun blush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon,
lobster marinated in fine cognac and champagne-soaked caviar.
·
Currently, the most expensive pizza that can be bought and found in Nino’s
Bellisima in New York City with price of $1000. Paying that amount of money and
ordering 24 hours in advance, you’ll get 12 inch pizza that is topped with
caviar, lobster, cremefraiche and chives.
·
14 pizzas in just 2 minutes and 35 seconds is the current world record for
fastest pizza making.
· The man who is credited with making
pizza an international hit is Raffaele Esposito, a baker, who in 1889, created
three kinds of pizzas especially for King Umberto and Queen Margherita.
· Pizza seems to be the number one food among
computer personnel. There is an unusually high number of pizza businesses
within five miles of every computer centre!
French Fries
Surprisingly,
French fries are not called “French fries” in France. They are branded there as
poninws frites, “fried potatoes.” And the potato itself is known as “earth
apple”. The French term for French fries is more accurate than ours because French
fries weren’t invented in France. They were first made in Florence, Italy. They
were called “French” because of the French practice of cutting vegetables into
thin strips. Another source
argues that it is a Belgian legend which claims when British or American
soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I, upon tasting the fries they
referred to them as 'French', as the official language of the Belgian Army at
that time was indeed French.
