secret junk food time let's find out 10 things you probably didn't know about your favorite
junk foods you just might uncover something new about your favorite guilty go-to snacks
i'll never eat junk food again i swear good for you origins of doritos me i came from heaven
ah doritos everyone's favorite tortilla chips but do you know the whole story of how they came to be
well as it turns out doritos actually came from a dumpster like literally but not just any dumpster
one at disneyland when disneyland first opened in 1955 frito lay decided to open their own
tex-mex restaurant in the park called casa de fritos as the story goes one day an employee
from the restaurant noticed that the chefs were tossing an outrageous amount of stale tortillas
in the dumpster every single day i live in a dumpster and he decided to do something about it
that's when the restaurant started cutting the tortillas up and frying them for the customers
soon enough the frenzy caught on and the salty snack became an official staple at casa de fritos
after a few years of disney sales frito-lay executives decided to take things further and
began to mass produce the chips in 1974 the nacho cheese flavor came about which gave us the doritos
chips we know and loved today and all thanks to a dumpster hey are you gonna finish those
sorry they're already gone no they're not you left the best part no i'm pretty sure they're kitkat
has a surprising ingredient the secret ingredient dies with me dirty cases of cough syrup shine here
ever since their invention in the 1930s kitkat has definitely become one of the most popular
chocolate bars out there not only in america but all around the world while it is beloved have
you ever stopped and wondered why it's so tasty in the first place what is the ingredient that
makes them what they are today well get ready to have your mind blown because a kitkat bar
is not just a sweet filling between wafers covered in chocolate they actually contain
pieces of ground up kitkat if i was at a present for you my last could get more
indeed it was revealed in a bbc2 documentary that the inside layers of the bar are made
from imperfect unwanted bars a factory worker on the assembly line explained that any broken
or discarded kitkats go into rework where they're used for the fillings for the wafer the episode of
inside the factory first aired in 2015 and yet many people are still oblivious to this
mind-boggling fact and when you think about it it does unleash some chicken and egg confusion how
were the first creamy layers of the original kitkat made then because that is paradoxical
pringles cans strange purposes how much do you think pringles paid these people hardly anything
pringles are able to stand out from an endless sea of potato chips not only because of their
delicious flavor and perfect shape but also because of their unique and never seen before
packaging designed by frederick bauer in 1966 his vision was to create a container that could
ensure freshness stand on its own and prevent chips from being damaged as much as possible
and the cardboard tube with a metal bottom and a plastic top met all three requirements
wow while it's the perfect container to keep every pringles chip intact and fresh
it's not the only thing this can has ever been used for no we're not talking about
those crazy online hacks to turn your old pringles cans into tissue dispensers
or something to store your pasta we're talking about what bauer did with it as the inventor of
the unique packaging bauer understandably grew attached and when he passed away in 2008 his
children buried some of his cremated remains in a pringles tube a peculiar thing to do yes but
it wasn't just a silly stunt he had specifically requested this unusual burial and his children
simply honored his last wish break the news on your own term cotton candy's unlikely inventor
as a kid what's the one thing you're told over and over again when at the dentist that's probably
along the lines of don't eat so much sugar right after all sugar is supposed to be every dentist's
arch nemesis but for william morrison it was his breakthrough with the invention of cotton candy
the story goes that in the late 1800s morrison a dentist from nashville tennessee was working with
a friend of his john c wharton a confectioner in hopes of creating a machine that would take
the manual labor out of spinning sugar that's when they invented what they called the electric
candy machine which is actually pretty similar to the modern ones we have today this is a great
invention it consisted of a metal bowl with a spinning central head and all you needed to do
was fill it with sugar crystals the heated sugar would then be spun through a wire gauze using
air creating the fluffy floss-like confection we know today as cotton candy after roughly seven
years of perfecting the machine the duo finally decided to make a business out of the fluffy treat
and headed to the st louis world fair in 1904 and sold each box for 25 cents the then called
fairy floss was such a huge hit more than 68 000 boxes were sold so next time your dentist
tries to lecture you about your candy eating habits just tell this story once upon a time
there was a reese's pieces dirty secret no more secrets no more lies it's all coming out
reese's pieces rise to fame all started thanks to its famous cameo in the blockbuster movie e.t
and they've since become more than a respectable snack when you're craving something sweet and
salty while they might seem pretty straightforward not chocolate peanut butter combination like their
cup counterparts they're actually not quite what they seem if you look at the ingredients you'll
see sugar peanuts vegetable oil corn syrup and a long list of artificial colors and flavors but
nowhere is the mention of chocolate that's right reese's pieces do not contain any chocolate
they're simply tiny bits of sweetened peanut butter coated in a candy shell is it able to
make juice from reese's pieces probably if you feel robbed don't worry they're not the only one
a lot of people have shared their bafflement and confusion online demanding an explanation turns
out there are many for one despite bearing the familiar famous name reese's pieces never claimed
to contain any chocolate people simply assumed that the treat packed chocolate but when you crack
one open it's pretty obvious that only peanut butter resides in the middle so if your chocolate
and peanut butter dreams are crushed right now just opt out of reese's pieces and go for reese's
cups next time you have a craving and everything will be just fine this is a game changer cheetos
addictive properties did you steal my cheetos again everybody knows that when you open a bag
of cheetos you're not getting away with only a handful one quickly turns into two and before
you know it you've downed the entire bag in one sitting don't worry that's not because you lack
self-control it's because cheetos are specifically designed to make you grab more and more and always
more according to steven witherly a food scientist cheetos have something called vanishing caloric
density which means that if something melts down quickly your brain thinks that there
are no calories in it hey is that healthy food nope that you can just keep eating it forever
they also achieve the perfect bliss point as the level of flavor intensity is like the perfect
balance of sweet and salty keeping us reaching for more without being so overwhelming that our brain
gets tired of the flavor another explanation was reached by an oxford study saying that the brain
associates the crunching sound with freshness and what's crunchier than cheetos since your brain
sinks you're eating fresh and healthy food it might convince it that you're eating something
more appetizing than it really is whatever the reason though now you know why you simply can't
put down the bag once you've picked it up terribly terribly addictive bubblegum is pink for a reason
bubblegum a childhood classic and a guilty pleasure for grownups bubblegum has been a part
of our lives since the 1920s it's a confection that no one really knows a lot about we know that
it's bad for your teeth that it's usually pink and that contrary to popular belief it does not
take seven years to digest but apart from that bubble gum is pretty much unknown territory it's
time to change that let's start with why is the traditional gum always pink after all the specific
hue is so iconic it even has its very own crayola color well apparently the bright pink color
was sort of unplanned i have a rule about favors i give everybody just one i have a similar rule
about bubble gum in 1928 walter e dimer was working for fleer chewing gums and liked to
experiment during his spare time his goal was to create a gum that would allow you to blow
bubbles but still keep on chewing the gum after the bubble popped after a few trials and errors
the double bubble gum was here it was less sticky than regular chewing gums and had the ability to
stretch more easily the only problem the added latex made the gum an unappetizing gray so the
company needed to find a more pleasing color something that would make people want to chew on
it the only dye they had on hand was bright pink so they rolled with it and it has since become a
chewy tradition pretty great huh so pink here's the best part nutella and shortages nutella
with selected hazelnuts and premium cocoa nutella has always been a little touchy subject
yes it's delicious and one of the most satisfying ways to start your morning
but it's just not the most sustainable option the italian treat was first invented in the 1960s and
it wasn't long before its popularity caught on and it became a world famous spread however with
popularity comes more sales which calls for greater production which means more resources
and that can cause some important shortages in nutella's case it was hazelnuts that became
hard to come by a couple of years ago ferrero the makers of nutella use approximately one-quarter of
the entire world's hazelnut supply and since the worldwide demand for the nut went up exponentially
farmers were struggling to keep up resulting in shortages working hard crops were greatly affected
by the bad weather in turkey which produces around 70 percent of the world's hazelnut supply
that led prices to shoot up by 60 percent causing mayhem in the supply chain and affecting everyone
from the farmer to the nutella buyer in the store even though this was eventually resolved
the battle wasn't won yet in 2019 the world's largest nutella factory in villa cal france was
shut down because a quality defect was detected nutella really can't seem to catch a break see my
success and be my success residential jelly beans mom can i have a jelly bean sandwich for lunch
everyone's got their favorite foods even important public figures like former presidents but perhaps
one of the most surprising of all was ronald reagan's obsession for jelly belly jelly beans
after he quit smoking reagan was looking for a substitute something to replace his old habit
and he discovered jelly beans and never let them go in fact the brand's popularity is often
associated with reagan's campaign and presidency as jelly belly would supply him with shipments
of the candy every month for the eight years he led the country it's marketing they also provided
three and a half tons of patriotic themed jelly beans cherry coconut and blueberry flavored to
his presidential inauguration there's even a jelly bean jar with the presidential seal on
it which comes in a blue gift box once he famously told a group of reporters you can tell a lot about
a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful every
month reagan would order 20 bags of candy and distribute it throughout the white house to his
staff and as gifts to dignitaries presidential decree veggie straws versus potato chips
vegetables sorry to burst your bubble veggie straw lovers but your favorite snack isn't so guilt-free
after all back in 2017 two duped customers even took matters to court and sued veggie
straws claiming the packaging had misled them and made them believe they were eating real whole
vegetables essentially you're not getting any of the vegetables that are vibrantly depicted on
the bag but rather a bunch of vegetable byproducts like tomato paste and spinach powder plus the rest
of the ingredients list isn't all that much more appealing with things like potato flour potato
starch and cornstarch okay sounds healthy in short the lawsuit claimed that customers were not
actually getting any of the nutritional benefits they were promised by eating those by-products
eventually haynes celestial group the makers of the snack won the court battle since well
technically veggie straws did have some kind of vegetables in them which wasn't judged to
be misleading but still that doesn't mean that they are the magical healthy alternative to
potato chips and you should always eat them in moderation just like everything else because
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