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Friday, 21 November 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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Eggs
The structure of the egg was once seen as analogous to the structure of the cosmos.
According to this theory, the eggshell was supposed to be the sky, the membrane inside the sky with clouds, the egg white symbolized water, and the egg yolk symbolized earth and minerals.
Kombucha
Recently, kombucha has begun to return to favor.
Growing awareness and knowledge of healthy eating, and the importance of proper intestinal flora, ha ...
Honey
Honey has salutary properties for the human body.
It has beneficial effects on the heart, nerves, brain, and healing wounds. It works better than some ...
French fries
In North America (the US and Canada), fries are referred to as “fries.” The rest of the English-speaking world calls them “chips.”
The term chips is used in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Cheesecake
Cheesecake was a cake used in religious rituals and as food for participants in the Olympic Games.
Perhaps Aegimus wrote a book about cheesecake because he was concerned with the diet of Olympic athl ...
Cheddar
In the past, cheese was usually packed in black wax. Nowadays this is rarely done.
It is found either in foil packaging (such a cheese can not breathe) or wrapped in greased cheese wraps, which allow the cheese to breathe and at the same time protect it from dirt getting into it.
Cheddar
Joseph Harding is considered the father of today's cheddar.
A master dairyman in the 19th century, he made great efforts to standardize and modernize cheese mak ...
Coffee
There are two methods of extracting coffee beans from the fruit.
One is the wet method, in which the coffee fruit goes into a water-mill-like machine. There they are ...
Wagyū Beef
Kobe beef and Wagyū beef are not the same.
While all Kobe beef is Wagyū, not all Wagyū beef is Kobe. The different types of beef are associate ...
Kombucha
Kombucha is a blend of natural probiotics (fungi and bacteria), organic acids (acetic, glyconic, glucuronic, citric, lactic, tartaric, malonic, oxalic, succinic, pyruvic, tin), small amounts of sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose), B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12), vitamin C, 14 amino acids, purines, pigments, lipids, proteins.
In addition, there are some hydrolytic enzymes, ethanol, substances that exhibit antibiotic activity ...