The origin of doctoral sausage and herring under a fur coat: 10 unexpected facts about familiar foods

We have long been accustomed to these dishes, but few know where they came from, what has been done before and became popular. Well, we are ready to surprise you!

The first cereal was created by Dr. John Kellogg to reduce sexual desire in men. Dr. Kellogg believed that sex is harmful for both physical health and emotional. Kellogg believed that Masturbation leads to various ailments and diseases, and diet food for Breakfast will help to reduce the sexual appetite. Simply put, corn flakes were invented to prevent Masturbation. They were not sweet and was served a few years for Breakfast in a sanatorium, Battle Creek. To produce them on an industrial scale has become much later the doctor's brother — Will Kellogg, who added to cereals, sugar and created his own company.

Tomato sauce, which is now the second most popular after mayonnaise, appeared in the early seventeenth century in China and was made from pickled fish and spices. The British brought Ke-tsiapиз Malay colonies. If you translate the word Ketchup from one of the Chinese dialects, Ke-tsiap means of saline brine of fish or shellfish. In an attempt to repeat the recipe, the British tried to make the main ingredient of the sauce and mushrooms only in the XIX century in the ketchup includes tomatoes.

Henry Heinz began making ketchup in 1876 but he was neither the inventor of ketchup, nor the first, who poured it into the bottle. Together with Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley Heinz invented to replace the preservatives in the sauce to vinegar, and since the sauce is so popular.

The Caesar salad available in the menu of most restaurants and order it often. However, not everyone knows that the name of the salad to the Emperor Julius Caesar does not have any relationship. The recipe of "Caesar" appeared at Mexico, in 1924. Then, during the celebration of U.S. independence Day (July 4), in the restaurant of the hotel Caesar's Place in Tijuana, the visitors were so many that there was nowhere to turn.

Alcohol was a lot, but products not. Guests were mostly rich businessmen and Hollywood stars, and guests were hungry. A chef from Italy Caesar Cardini didn't know how to get out of the situation and made a salad of all that was in the kitchen. That day, the recipe was no chicken or shrimp: just lettuce, eggs, Parmesan and croutons of white bread, seasoned with olive oil and lemon juice.

There is a legend that the salad herring under a fur coat appeared at a revolutionary time in the Moscow canteens merchant Anastas of Bogomilova. When the visitors of the Inns were drunk and started to argue about politics, it often ended in fights. In order to calm down unruly visitors who are in the fight for what's right beat the dishes and broken furniture, cook Aristarchus Prokoptsov apologetic invented the dish, a symbol of national unity.

Salad with herring and boiled vegetables called "S. U. B." (in those days all sorts of abbreviations were in Vogue), which means "Chauvinism and decline — fight and accursed." Potatoes, onions and carrots — symbolized peasants, herring — proletarians, and red beet — revolution. The salad was served first before 1919, and said that drunken fights in restaurants and canteens has become smaller.

In fact, salad recipe appeared much earlier, in the first half of the nineteenth century. Herring salad was a typical dish of Scandinavian and German cuisine, it was prepared both in Norway and in Sweden.

Shawarma, Doner kebabs and gyros with different names of the same dishes that appeared more than 1000 years ago. The Arabic version of the name from the verb "to spin" — "çevirme", Doner kebabs from the word return "dönmek" in Turkish, but "gyros" — it "spin" in Greek. Shawarma in Moscow and Shawarma in St. Petersburg are prepared in different ways: in Moscow okruzi and add salted cabbage, and in St. Petersburg — fresh cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. In the South of Russia the Greek gyros is called a gyro, but the essence remains the same.

In Russian stores you can often see "salad with asparagus", but few know that there is no asparagus in it. In fact, this is the dried skin of boiled soy milk. This product is called fuju, but for some reason everything in Russia used to call it asparagus.

In the 30 years I have felt serious problems with the food, the people malnourished, and the work had to be done. Then the people's Commissariat of health has commissioned the experts of packing. Mikoyan to develop a recipe for sausage that will be accessible to the workers and peasants, and the name "doctor" explained honorable mission: the sausage was intended "to improve the health of individuals affected by the arbitrariness of the tsarist regime".

The sausage began to be sold in 1936, and in those days the recipe was completely dietary. The structure includes beef, lean pork, eggs and milk. Physicians prescribed the sausage people with poor health, anemia, liver and stomach.

The story of the first potato chips became the stuff of legend, but it is the truth. It is believed that they were created by George Crum, who worked as a cook at a resort in Saratoga springs.

Signature recipe of the restaurant was French fries. Once one visitor returned an order, complaining that the potatoes are cut too thick. The cook was offended and cut the potatoes so that the slices have become no thicker than paper. The visitor liked the dish, and later the "Saratoga Chips" became a local delicacy.

The veracity of this story or not, it is not clear, but it is known that cook had a sister, after the death of which was known that she was the first person who made the "Saratoga Chips".

No, it is not artificial and is made from plastic, and generic test, mixed with water. The difference is that the noodles are boiled and dried in the process of production. Most often the noodles treated with hot steam and then dried, fried in boiling vegetable oil. After this procedure, the noodles formed into briquettes, we also need to fill it with boiling water and leave for a few minutes in the container.

In 2000, the Japanese asked the question: what invention of the twentieth century they consider most important? The first place they gave the instant noodles.