March 21st, 2025 | No Comments »
One account attributes a supposed bean soup mandate to a Minnesota senator who expressed his fondness for it more than a century ago. Claim: “Bean soup has been offered on the U.S. Senate dining room menu every day since 1903”. True, for more than a century, bean soup has essentially been on the menu of […]
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September 1st, 2024 | No Comments »
The story that the first human to consume coffee was inspired by witnessing goats dancing after eating coffee berries has been told since at least the 17th century. The earliest known version of the claim was published in 1671. However, because no primary-source records describing the origin of the human consumption of coffee are known […]
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April 10th, 2023 | No Comments »
For some years, a “vintage ad” has circulated online that recommends mixing the soft drink 7-Up with milk to make “a delicious food drink” that supposedly pleases children and adults equally: Go on have you ever tried 7up and milk? No? You don’t know what you’re missing ???? pic.twitter.com/KRwPEsKpmf — Museum Facts (@museumfacts) September […]
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