Talk about the food

Cornflakes

This product also appeared in the late 19th century. So-called "Seventh-day Adventists" began to develop a new type of food, which would meet the requirements of a fully vegetarian diet. Two of the owner of the sanatorium "Battle Creek" from the State of Michigan decided to cook some dish of cornmeal, but they are somewhat distracted, and forget about the dish.
After a while the unlucky cook remembered about it, but the meal was already hopelessly flawed. To avoid losing valuable product, the men tried to handle the mass flowing through the rollers. They hoped to get a sheeted dough sheets, but got flakes. Fry them, the owners offered a new dish for patients living in the boarding house, and eventually became the inventor of delicious treats - cornflakes.


chocolate chip cookies

He invented a kind of Ruth Wakefield, which ended chocolate for baking. Ruth without hesitation, took the usual chocolate, mixed with the dough, and began to bake cookies. Contrary to expectations, melt the chocolate began to spread evenly over the dough, and the drops in some places. Once cooled cookies, chocolate hardened, and left a cookie with embedded pieces of conventional chocolate.

After trying a novelty, Ruth was delighted - so tasty cookies she had not eaten. As a result - a modern chocolate chip cookies is popular all over the world, and Ruth became pretty rich man.



Potato chips

This invention is for a long time - the official date of the creation of potato chips is considered to be 1853. Then, in one of the restaurants the visitor could not please the cook - he loved the crispy fried potatoes, and he always brings something wrong. As a result, an angry chef sliced ​​the potatoes as thin as he could, and dry it in a large amount of hot oil. After - Sprinkle with salt and serve.

Delight astonished visitor was no limit and chips became a hit, which went beyond the region and the product became world famous.



Beer
This is one of the most ancient beverage, which knew even the Babylonians and Sumerians. It turns out that ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia, another 10 thousand years ago, managed to get the drink as a result of accidental mixing of wet barley grain that has already begun to wander, with water and some components. The result is a rather delicious drink, which in addition to its other advantages, even drunk.



Coffee

Another ancient product, which our ancestors knew. According to legend, the coffee is not opened at all people, and goats, which ate one bean of a tree in Ethiopia. Then they leaped and frolicked much longer than usual, which could not help but notice the shepherd. Shepherd and he tasted the coffee beans, then felt an extraordinary surge of strength and energy. It happened about a thousand years before our era.

Of course, this is only one of the legends that are more plausible than others, but the fact remains - Coffee opened a long time ago.



Saccharin

In 1879, chemist John Hopkins fumbled with some newly created substance, exploring its properties when he was called to dinner. Hopkins did not wash their hands, and picking up bread, felt the extraordinary sweetness of the latter. Quickly realized what was happening, a chemist described the properties of this substance, and in 1884 received a patent for saccharin.





Raisins

In 1490 BC the ancient Egyptians described some properties of raisins, which is used both as food and as a medicine. In addition, it was used to decorate the room and as a component of the total tax. Of course, the raisins are much older than four thousand years.

According to legend, someone forgot it in wine, then a bunch of dried up, and got a sweet, soft delicacy.