Are you looking for some of the interesting facts about food or culinary? If your answer is yes, then here are some of the most amusing facts you must know. Share these facts and impress your friends.

Ice Cream

• Ice cream is a Chinese food item. Marco Polo the famous explorer when returned to Italy, from China in the year 1295, he actually brought a well known recipe called "Milk Ice" among many other things. However, later Europeans substituted cream for the milk, and voila. Since then, ice cream has been a major hit.
• Generally, the United States actually consumes on an average 48 pints of ice cream per person, per year. This is usually more than any other country in the world.
• On an average, it takes 50 licks to polish off a single-scoop ice cream cone.

Pizza

• The word pizza was originally spelt as "pitsa".
• Most pizza is ordered during the weather forecast or TV programs. Adding to this, the delivery folks also report that women, perhaps not surprisingly, are better tippers!
• Generally, Americans consume or eat almost 350 slices of pizza each second.

Chilies

• The color of a chili is no indication of its spiciness, but what matters is its size. Generally, it is important to note that the smaller the chilie pepper, the hotter it is.
• Near about 140 varieties of chilies peppers are alone grown in Mexico alone.
• Chilies play a very important role in making foods safer. They help in reducing the harmful bacteria on foods.

Potato

• The potato is one of the most important non-cereal crops in the world, and considered as the fourth most important crop overall.
• Irish were the first to eat potato. They were first introduced to Britain and Ireland in the late 1500s. It didn't get popular immediately; many people actually held potato responsible for diseases as it was not talked about in the Bible.
• Crisps made of potato were first invented by a North American Indian named as George Crum
• In the United States, if we compare the price between a pound of potato chips and potato, generally prices of potato chips is almost two hundred times extra than potatoes.

Miscellaneous

• The flavor that is commonly associated with bubble gum all across the world is a mixture of wintergreen, vanilla and cassia, a form of cinnamon.
• Cheddar is the most consumed and widely purchased cheese in the world.
• Research shows that dark chocolate very similar to the red wine actually contains considerable amounts of flavonoid phenolics which in turn may be very helpful in lowering the risk of heart disease.

Today these foods are so common that it is really hard to imagine life without it. However, when these interesting facts were first brought into notice, it was considered as a myth, but slowly it turns out to be real. This list is just to give you an idea about some of the most important trivia that is related to about food and culinary items.