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Thursday, 19 February 2026
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
Honey is divided into nectar (flower) and honeydew honey.
As a rule, floral honeys are light in color, some only have a dark yellow to brown tint. However, th ...
Coffee
The first coffee plantations in Brazil were established in 1719.
The Portuguese stole coffee seedlings from Guyana and established plantations in Brazil, making coff ...
Chocolate
Chocolate is a confectionery containing cocoa (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), sugar, and other additives (like milk, which is added to milk chocolate).
Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd June defines chocolate as ...
Beer
The Sumerians used bread to prepare beer.
This was the simplest way to produce ancient beer, as only bread and water are required for alcoholi ...
French fries
French fries are most often prepared in vegetable oil, although they were originally fried in beef tallow.
As recently as the 1990s, fries at McDonald’s were fried in a mixture of 93 percent beef tallow and 7 percent cottonseed oil.
Coffee
The first coffee house in Boston opened in 1670.
Vienna boasted the first café thanks to a Pole, Franciszek Kulczycki, who opened a cafehaus there af ...
Cheddar
Cheese making dates back at least to the 12th century.
From that time, more precisely from 1170, there is a document confirming the purchase of cheese by the court of King Henry II. At that time, 4640 kilograms were ordered.
Chocolate
Chocolate is a high-calorie product.
100 g of 99% dark chocolate may contain 530 kcal, but as a product with a low glycemic index (20), 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 ...
Maple syrup
The first evaporator for heating and thickening maple sap was patented in 1858.
This evaporator has been repeatedly improved to speed up the evaporation process. The following year ...