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Thursday, 7 August 2025
15 facts about french fries
15 facts about french fries
Not so French after all
It is not known where the fries come from. Some say from France, others, Belgium. Whatever the truth, one thing is certain–they are delicious, and pro ...

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Honey
The collected nectar or honeydew is used by the bees as food.
While foraging, bees use some of the collected nectar to support the metabolic activity of the muscl ...
Honey
Honey is produced by bees of the genus Apis and stingless bees (Melipona - a tribe in the bee family, which includes about 250 species found in the tropics or subtropics).
They carry flower nectar or honeydew to the hives. Under the influence of enzymes and formic acid, s ...
Beer
Yeast is responsible for carrying out alcoholic fermentation.
As a result of the yeast’s work, sugars contained in water are converted into ethyl alcohol. In addi ...
Halva
In Mesopotamia, halva was a mixture of honey and nuts.
In ancient Greece and Rome, sweets similar to halva were prepared with honey, nuts, and sesame seeds ...
Sushi
The term sushi refers to rice soaked in rice vinegar.
It means sour rice in Japanese. In order to be called sushi, the dish does not have to include fish or seafood.
Beer
Hops enhance beer flavor as a condiment.
Due to its intense flavor and aroma, typically very little is added. Two parameters that are taken i ...
Maple syrup
Such syrup is ready to eat, but it can also be a raw material for the production of maple sugar, maple butter, and maple candy.
The farms producing maple syrup are called sugarbush. The building in which the water is evaporated ...
Mozzarella
It is difficult to determine when mozzarella began to be made. Surely the production of this cheese has a long history.
History says that the Romans already in the second half of the 1st century BC were the first in the ...
Cheesecake
The world’s largest cheesecake weighed 3 tons and 129 kilograms.
It was created on the occasion of the “Ninth Cheesecake Festival” in 2013 and made it into the Guinn ...
Beer
Barley provides starch, which is converted into fermentable sugars.
Many breweries replace some of the malts with unmalted raw materials with similar properties.