It was a happy accident.
How is it tasty? Thanks to the skilful chefs? The best products? Stored in the unique secret recipes? Yes, it is, but you will be surprised to learn that many popular products and dishes was an accident.
1. A waffle cone.
Ice cream was popular already before the appearance of wafer cones. One day at the fair in St. Louis in 1904, the ice cream man was the peak sales and he just didn’t have enough bowls for ice cream. To help him came the seller waffles, who offered to put ice cream on waffles. And in 1910 began to appear the first ice cream in waffle cups.
2. Chips.
Despite the fact that in the year consumed more than 500 million pounds of potato chips, this snack could not be. In 1853, in a restaurant chef George Crum, was upset after a customer criticized his chips, calling it too wet and thick. Cook in anger sliced another batch of potatoes so thin as I could, sprinkled with salt and fried in plenty of oil. Surprisingly, the restaurant customer was delighted with these crispy slices. After the chef opened his own restaurant where they served potato chips.
3. Coffee.
Popular legend has it that the first consumer of coffee was a goat. One Ethiopian shepherd noticed the strange behavior of his goats. Goats were lively and energetic and the shepherd decided to follow them. It turned out that the goats ate the leaves and beans of some tree, which was coffee. The curious herder tried coffee cherries and carried grain to the monks, so that they were alert during prayers. So coffee became popular.
4. Sandwich.
In 1762, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was playing some kind of game of chance with their friends and didn’t want to interrupt the game even to eat. He instructed his povoro to cook food that he could easily eat without being distracted from the game. The cook put beef between two slices of bread. Thus, a sandwich or a sandwich.
5. Fruit ice.
11-year-old Frank Epperson loved sodas. On a cold night in 1905 he left his soda on the porch. In the morning Frank found that the drink was cold. Frank tried the frozen soda and found it an amazing taste. 20 years the young man was doing frozen treats, and then founded his own company.
6. Tofu.
The mild taste of tofu we owe it to one clumsy chef living in ancient China. The legend says that a cook accidentally dropped a magnesium chloride in a pot of soy milk. As a result of chemical reaction happened tofu.
7. Yogurt.
In Central Asia more than 8,000 years ago, shepherds used animal stomachs to store milk. The natural enzymes maintained the temperature and fermented milk giving it a sour taste which was liked by the shepherds.
8. Beer.
Over 3000 years ago in Mesopotamia there was a beer. The grain necessary for the production of bread became wet and began to ferment producing liquid. Of course no bread mesopotamy not made, but the strange drink has spread and today is the most popular alcohol in the world.
