1. Employees at Ben & Jerry’s get three free pints of ice cream EVERY DAY. They also get a free gym membership.
2. “Fancy ketchup” is an actual USDA grade . . . and the highest grade. Ketchups are rated on color, consistency, defects, and flavor.
3. The first candy produced by a machine was Necco Wafers. A guy named Oliver Chase made them with a lozenge cutting machine in 1847.
4. The cheeseburger was invented in 1926 at a restaurant called the Rite Spot in Pasadena, California. The owner’s 16-year-old son randomly threw cheese onto a patty on the grill. Then they added it to their menu, and called it a “cheese hamburger.”
5. Our bodies typically get about 20% of the water they need from the foods we eat throughout the day.
