Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s to treat liver disease and indigestion.

The most stolen food in the world is cheese — about 4% of all cheese produced globally is stolen.

Umami, the fifth basic taste, was identified by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 from kombu seaweed.

The average American eats about 23 pounds of pizza per year.

Spam is so popular in Hawaii that it is sometimes called the Hawaiian steak.

Competitive hot dog eating requires athletes to dunk buns in water to compress them for faster consumption.

Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' (2006) won the Pulitzer Prize and contains almost no punctuation.

The most expensive fruit in the world is the Yubari King melon from Japan, which has sold for over $45,000 at auction.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.