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Interesting and unusual food and drink facts from around the world
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The most expensive food in the world is White Gold Caviar, costing $40,000 a teaspoon. The roe, which comes from a rare Albino sturgeon, is laced with 22carat gold.
Thought to be the oldest alcoholic drink in history, mead dates back over 9,000 years and is created by fermenting honey with water. It was once thought to be the drink of the gods.
In 1989, Russia gave Pepsi 17 submarines, one frigate, one cruiser, and one destroyer by way of paying off a $3 billion debt. While the aging vessels were sold for scrap, for a brief period, Pepsi technically had the sixth largest navy in the world.
Isabella Islay is the most expensive whiskey on planet Earth. The bottle, encrusted with 8,500 diamonds, 300 rubies, and two bars of white gold, costs $6.2 million.
The noise made by a bottling plant can reach or even exceed 100 decibels. That’s approximately eight-times louder than an average vacuum cleaner.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food “ “
– George Bernard Shaw –
The world’s largest commercially available apple is the Sekai Ichi Apple, typically measuring between 30-46cm in circumference and weighing 900 grams.
Hailed as the rarest steak in the world, Olive Wagyu comes from cattle raised on dried olive peels mixed into their feed. It was developed in 2006 by a Japanese cattle farmer named Masaki Ishii and can cost over $300 a steak.
Most wasabi eaten outside of Japan, and in some cases even in the country itself, is just horseradish dyed green. This is due to how hard wasabi is to cultivate.
In 2019, two Yubari King Melons were sold at auction for $45,000, making them the most expensive fruits ever sold.
