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How a Siege in Algeria Sold France on Iced Coffee

Supposedly, heroic French soldiers enjoyed taking their coffee with water.
Sarah Laskow June 7, 2016
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Check Out This Terrifying and Bleeding New Tomato

Be careful.
Erik Shilling June 1, 2016
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How the Family Who Got Rich with Hot Pockets Is Giving Away Their Fortune

It's a lot of money.
Ernie Smith May 31, 2016
Quebec produced enough syrup this spring to fill approximately 287 million 6-ounce bottles.
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It Was A Record Year For Québécois Maple Syrup Production

Sweet!
Cara Giaimo May 31, 2016
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Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Herbivorous Butcher

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.
restaurants

This Burger King in Finland Has a Sauna in It

It's important to be healthy.
Erik Shilling May 20, 2016
trees

So You Want to Eat a Tree

A guide to ingesting bark, cambium, leaves, flowers, and buds.
Tao Tao Holmes May 20, 2016
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Looking down one of the supermarket's aisles
Shanghai, China

Shanghart Supermarket

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.
A Rainforest Cafe mascot, Cha Cha the red-eyed tree frog.
restaurants

The True Story of the Rainforest Cafe is Even Wilder Than You Thought

The founder of the world's premiere "eatertainment" brought live animals to the mall.
Lindsey Weber May 17, 2016
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The Violent Ice Cream Wars of 1980s Scotland

The most dangerous job in Glasgow was being an ice cream man.
Natalie Zarrelli May 13, 2016
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The Currywurst Museum.
Berlin, Germany

Deutsches Currywurst Museum

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.
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Meet the Fish That Made America Great

The sad saga of shad, Revolutionary America’s favorite fish.
Sarah Laskow May 13, 2016
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Everything You Know About Mole Sauce Is A Lie

If what you know is that mole's most important ingredient is chocolate.
Dan Nosowitz May 12, 2016
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Anyone Can Now Buy One of the World's Most Expensive Teas

For the first time in over a century.
Eric Grundhauser May 12, 2016
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Poster explaining that a simple dish of pasta is cheap and can help relieve world hunger
Rome, Italy

Museo Nazionale delle Paste Alimentari

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.
Giraffe eating breakfast with guests at Giraffe Manor
Nairobi, Kenya

Giraffe Manor

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
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The First Restaurants Only Served Soup

The meat-based broths they served were intended to "restore life" to patrons.
Urvija Banerji May 10, 2016
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L'Extra-Terrasse during its brief heyday
Saint-Simon, Québec

L' Extra-Terrasse

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.