Pizza Hut used to be the largest purchaser of kale in the US, only using it as garnish for their salad bars, before the superfood craze circa 2012
Cheese is the most stolen food on earth, with nearly 4% of cheese inventory worldwide stolen each year.
The name ‘Chilean Sea Bass’ was coined in 1977 to make the ‘Patagonian Toothfish’ more attractive to consumers, essentially rebranding it with a more appealing moniker.
For a city that consumes so much of it, at our ubiquitous brunches, there is a prolific mis-spelling of the name of this glorious Champagne House. The phonetic spelling Veuve Clicquot is “Vuv Klee-koh”. (Not Vuv Kleek). Don’t pronounce the ‘r’ but please, I implore you, pronounce the ‘koh’!
Moët & Chandon is not pronounced ‘Mo-way’, its ‘Mo’wett’. Moët is French champagne and was founded in 1743 by Claude Moët. However, even though he was born in France, his name is Dutch.