Food is one of
the most important thing that all the living beings need to continue their
lives and get a necessary energy to carryout various of activities. Some people
interest to know the original places of food and its culture and history. They
consider food as an art of an amazing example for creativity with the help of
some food`s substances. It`s really an interesting type of art in which chiefs
want to appear the beauty and the passion on their dishes by sculptures and
decoration them. Whereas, few people not interest to think or to know about the history behind
each kind of food and the country came from.
Have you ever
wondering where your favorite foods come from and the stories behind their
names? You may be surprised to discover the origins of the most popular
foods around the world. Here are 7common foods and their origins.
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Bagels.
Bagels are bread originating in the Poland in the form of roll with a hole in the middle called Obwarzanek. Which evolved from German breads brought to the country by immigration during the 14th century. Now bagels become a popular bread produce in many cities around the world especially cities with a large Jewish of population. Bagels are fresh and delicious so many people prefer to eat them for breakfast, lunch or even light snack.
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Mayonnaise.
A common theory of its origins is that mayonnaise was creation of port Mahon on the Spanish island of Menoraca (It was known as salsa Mahonesa). Whereas other arguments are made of a French origin and was originally called bayonnasie related to a famous French food town called Bayonne. Now days mayonnaise is commonly used as basic sauces of many dishes around the world.
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Chewing
Gum.
The idea of chewing gum has existed since the ancient of Greeks epoch who chewed upon mastic gum from the reins of mastic tree. Also, the earlier Europeans were chewing gum made from brick bark tar. The modern chewing gum related its origins back to the Native American whom chewed the resin of spruce trees. After that the European settlers taught this practices, a man named Johan Curtis developed and sold the first commercial gum in the later 1840s. The final step in the evaluation of chewing gum come from Mexico where Aztecs had chewed a substance that extracted from sapodilla trees. Now days chewing gum is compound of gum bases, sweetmeats and various of flavors and colors.
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Ice Cream Cones.
The first ice cream cone was created by the Italian Italo Marchiony in 1896. Marchiony was granted a patent for ice cream machine in 1903. Although, Marchiony was the first deviser of the ice cream cone, a similar innovation was introduced at the 1940World`s Fair in St. Louis by Ernest Hamwi. According to his story, he was selling a crisp, waffles like pastry called Zalabia placed on right next to an ice cream`s vendor. After a time, the vendor ran out all his ice cream`s dishes. So, Hamwi thought an easy solution to solve the vendor`s problem. Hamwi rolled one of his wafer into a cone shape and gave it to the ice cream` s vendor. After what happened to Hamwi and the concept of the ice cream`s cone changed.
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Baguettes.
Baguette is a type of bread originally from French, famous for its long size and its thin loaf. Although, the world” Baguette” wasn’t used to denoting a type of bread until the year of 1920. This world itself translated as “wand “or “stick”. Nowadays baguettes consider as one of the French`s culture and become widely made in many other countries.
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6- Gatorade.
Gatorade was made in 1965 by a team of researchers in a University of Florida collage of Medicine. Answering the requests from a coach of Florida football. A coach noticed that his players were implausibly susceptive by the heat and losses their energy. Gatorade created to help these players and others athletes to replace the losses of electrolytes and fluids through sweat during their exercises or matches. The initial testing of carb-based beverage was rejected by the players (It tasted as seawater). Then a lemon juice was added to the beverage. The University of Florida researches named their project “Gato -Aid “after that they settled the name Gatorade.
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7- Sandwiches.
Sandwiches are the most popular type of food around the world taken to schools, work, picnics and even eaten as main meals. A sandwich was created by John Montague during the 4th Earl of sandwich. The origin story of sandwich that Montague had gamble problem that forced him to spend hours on card table. After a particular time, he requested from house`s cook to put pieces of beef inside two slices of toasted bread so that he could eat without moving up from his seat. Montague traveled to the Mediterranean, where Turkish and Greek were served different kind of foodstuff inside such as meats, eggs, fruits vegetables, mayonnaise and cheese two layers of bread.