10 Misconceptions Around Popular Foods

Weird History Food is getting into some Misconceptions Around Popular Foods. We all know how to eat, and most of us know how to cook, at least on some basic level. We can’t all be Chef Bobby Flay, right? However, while we tend to have a pretty good idea of how food works, we often have misconceptions about particular recipes, especially when they come from other countries. There are also some ingredients that defy popular understanding and have things about them most people are not aware of.

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[JillWhitcomb]

Trivia: At 4:00, the teacup and saucer shown is a china pattern known as Old Country Roses by Royal Albert. It is the most popular, best-selling, china pattern in the entire world.

[ls]

In Naples, Italy, we make "Lasagna di Carnevale" before Lent and it contains ricotta, which we usually mix with the tomato sauce, mozzarella, tiny meatballs and pieces of hard boiled eggs. I can pretty much bet that this is the origin of what you eat in the US today.
Just like the origin of pasta with meatballs comes from our traditional Sunday dish: "polpette al sugo" (meatballs in tomato sauce). We cook the meatballs in the sauce, then use the sauce for the pasta as a first course and then eat the meatballs as a second course. They are both very old and common recipes that most certainly made it across the Atlantic with the Neapolitan immigrants.

[Rickt]

I must mention that most people here in America know the difference between a real taco and a Taco Bell taco. Authentic type Mexican restaurants are all over the US.

[ridureyu]

“How does every British meal not end in a fistfight?” Is a question I ask every day.

[lindacoolbaugh]

I always eat potatoes with the skins. My favorite part! And in San Francisco, I went to this tiny fortune cookie place and watched them make them and put the fortunes in them. They were so good!

[bishopsteiner]

Hard Shell Tacos are basically a way to make no effort "Tacos Dorado", which is your typical soft corn tortilla, then fried crispy in oil.

[edwardleemiller-eojp]

Andes Candies chocolate hospitality mints aren’t actually from South America.

Turns out, the guy who invented them was named Andy, and there was already an “Andy’s Candy” shop in his town. So he changed the spelling to the mountain range instead.

[forfluf]

3:12 boy: Would you like some cream with your coffee?
girl: No thanks, I like my coffee black, like my men.
Nothing beats Airplane(1980)

[NewMessage]

Ok. Now I want tacos tonight. Tuesday's too far away.

[generybarczyk]

The way I heard it, the so-called "carbonara" was due to black pepper being the prominent spice of the dish.

[carlsberg-gsrl]

I tried making traditional pasta carbonara before and I was blown how much real guanciale and pecorino romano cost.

[proposmontreal]

Modern peanut butter is actually a Quebec invention. A Montreal pharmacist, Marcellus Gilmore Edson, as the first patent dating 1884, 14 years before Kellogg

[justingray]

Okay, how has nobody appreciated the editors for the G-rated inclusion of the Airplane scene at 3:00?? I know they were giggling their weird history asses off with that.

[crImsngen]

I rarely ever discard potato skins before preparing potato based dishes, we love eating the skin. Recipes that want me to throw it away are thrown out, and I just do my own thing.

[packertai]

A lot of these surprised me! The Lasanga, the tacos and pudding! Wow! Fun video, hungry video! 🤗😋🎉

[kademarlowe]

Carver didn't come up with over 300 uses for peanut butter.. he came up with over 300 uses for the peanut and never made peanut butter.

[tipulsar]

So, here's another thing about tortillas, the flour tortilla is from Southern Mexico, as opposed to northern's corn.

[alwallace]

I'm confused. I'm 64, was born in the USA and except for time in the military and vacations I've spent my entire life in the USA, but I've never seen Pasta Carbonara made with chicken.

[btetschner]

1:55 Elvis Presley was a huge fan of the peanut butter and banana sandwich, I remember that from a Weird History video.

[btetschner]

Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP* with basil along with a grilled cheese sandwich (with Kraft Singles^) and drinking hot apple cider...while watching this Weird History Food video!

* From the Weird History Food video "How Campbell's Soup Has Stood The Test of Time"
^ From the Weird History Food video "How Mac And Cheese Became an All-American Dish"
This is a popular Nebraska meal.