Ten unnecessary stupid facts about food

The pizza margarita used to be food for the poor, Pablo Escobar was really into empanadas, and the name avocado is again derived from the word testicle. Anyway, strange facts this time. About food. Here it comes.

1. The salads from McDonald's actually contain more fat than their hamburgers. A hamburger contains 9 grams of fat, a cheeseburger 12 grams, and the premium Caesar Salad with chicken a whopping 17 grams. Add their ‘regular’ dressing and you end up with 35 grams of fat, the equivalent of four hamburgers. Say whuuuut.

2. The five-second rule – if you drop food and pick it up within five seconds, it's still free of bacteria or other nastiness – is total nonsense. Yeah, sorry. I'm just saying it. From the moment food is on the ground, it already has as many bacteria as if you let it sit for five seconds.

3. Did you know that an unpeeled orange floats on water, while a peeled one sinks straight to the bottom?

4. BABY CARROTS DON'T EXIST AT ALL. Those supermarket bastards. You're just eating a peeled large carrot. And the leftover scraps are used in the raw vegetable mix. Naaaaaah.

5. Okay, heavy. Annually, 1000 kilos of food and drink pass through our bodies. Think 1.5 kilos of liquid per day and definitely a kilo of food.

6. Bananas and cucumbers are... berries. The seeds are in the flesh, just like with tomatoes and melons. The botanical designation for such fruits is a berry... Well. A little error there.

7. The last piece of chocolate from a bar tastes the best. Psychologists have discovered that we enjoy more when we know that there is an end to something.

8. There are more than ten thousand types of APPLES in the world, and if you want to taste them all, you'll be busy for more than 27 years.

9. If you ever find yourself in space with André Kuipers and want to pop that gooooooood bottle of bubbles, keep in mind that the champagne will just stay in the bottle when the cork is released. A bit of an anti-climax.

10. Alcohol tastes sweeter when loud music is playing. So; if that tequila is too bitter: blast some hard techno.