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Weird History Food is getting into some Misconceptions Around Popular Foods. We all know how to eat, and most of us know how to cook, at least on some basic level. We can’t all be Chef Bobby Flay, right? However, while we tend to have a pretty good idea of how food works, we often have misconceptions about particular recipes, especially when they come from other countries. There are also some ingredients that defy popular understanding and have things about them most people are not aware of.

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  1. 3:12 boy: Would you like some cream with your coffee?
    girl: No thanks, I like my coffee black, like my men.
    Nothing beats Airplane(1980)

  2. Fortune cookies do not give you fortune, but life advice. I propose a name change. Advice Cookies. I dont want to read "be happier" but "you will meet someone in a dark alley that would change your life…." … i dont like that one. but.. but its a fortune so…

  3. Did something happen to this video? It had AI images, mistakes in the narration, and just..lackluster effort and jokes? I normally love your stuff, but this is absolutely not it.

  4. I have lived in Southeast Asia for 13 years and have never seen a fortune cookie at any restaurant – Chinese or otherwise outside of the US.

  5. I always eat potatoes with the skins. My favorite part! And in San Francisco, I went to this tiny fortune cookie place and watched them make them and put the fortunes in them. They were so good!

  6. I know you want to maintain a certain quality and consistency but the AI images are not the way to go, even a slightly related clip or bad photoshop is better than those images that feel so soulless and vaguely off putting

  7. Modern peanut butter is actually a Quebec invention. A Montreal pharmacist, Marcellus Gilmore Edson, as the first patent dating 1884, 14 years before Kellogg

  8. In America, we know that Taco Bell is Mexican inspired and can easily get real Mexican food almost anywhere.

  9. Trivia: At 4:00, the teacup and saucer shown is a china pattern known as Old Country Roses by Royal Albert. It is the most popular, best-selling, china pattern in the entire world.

  10. I click on these videos for the male narrator. I wanna have fun listening to them. I'm sorry but listening to the females is just not as engaging

  11. They do serve fortune cookies in Hong Kong restaurants since then '90s or eighties I'm not sure and they call it a great American invention

  12. Hard shell tacos are not made with flour tortillas. They are made with fried corn tortillas, so the last comment about crunchy tacos was just dumb.

  13. Fortune cookies were also made by the Japanese immigrant population in the US…the Chinese immigrants took it over during the Japanese Internment during WW2 and maintained control since

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