Company Blog
13 Fun and Funky Facts From Our Grocery Food World
by Adam Zack — June 22, 2016
Watermelon is a fruit & a vegetable.
I love trivia and trivial facts. In fact, my favorite saying is “Really!!???”
- Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, some of his ashes were buried in one.
- Ben & Jerry learned how to make ice cream by taking a $5 correspondence course offered by Penn State. (They decided to split one course.)
- Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling. Hostess switched to vanilla after bananas were rationed during World War II.
- Oklahoma’s official state vegetable is the watermelon.
- Kool-Aid was originally a liquid concentrate and marketed as “Fruit Smack.”
- Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch. His ship is the USS Guppy.
- In 1989, Walmart pulled Listerine off shelves after a woman claimed it burned her mouth. After testing, they restocked it. Turns out that’s just how Listerine tastes.
- There is an ice skating rink on top of the flagship Whole Foods Austin, TX location.
- The world record for eating hard boiled eggs is 141 eggs in 8 minutes by Joey Chestnut in 2013.
- The average consumer tends to remember the price of only 4 food items: Milk, bread, bananas and eggs. 95% of consumers have no idea what the other items cost and don’t know if they are getting a good deal when they buy them. – Martin Lindstrom, auther “Buyology”.
- The average supermarket makes about 1.5 percent net profit a year. – Phil Lempert, Supermarketguru.com
- The bell at Trader Joe’s is their version of a PA system. One ding means another register needs to be open. Two means there are questions to be answered at the register, and three means manager assistance is needed.
- Uni is considered a sushi delicacy. You may know that it is sea urchin. It is, but specifically it’s that creature’s genitals. Now that you know, perhaps you wish you could forget.
Read More – Simplicity
Filed Under: Company Blog
love the article – very fun to read!