Fun Facts: Food & Drinks Part 6

Coca-Cola has made over 3,500 different kinds of beverages. If you drank one per day it would take you over nine years to try them all.

The term “sandwich” was named after  John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, a town in England. He would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread while he was gambling at a table so he wouldn’t have to leave the game.

In the Philippines, there’s a banana ketchup. During World War II there was actually a shortage of tomatoes, so they used bananas as a replacement in ketchup.

There are red bananas that taste sweet, creamy, and a little bit like raspberries.

Green bell peppers are just less mature, less ripe versions of red, orange, and yellow peppers. 

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