In the 18th century, lobster was so plentiful that it was served in prisons.

In 1919, 21 Bostonians died when a storage tank burst and flooded the North End with 2.3 million gallons of molasses.

Saccharin, cyclamate, and aspartame were all discovered by accident when a research scientist tasted something sweet on a contaminated finger.

In 2001, Pizza Hut delivered to the International Space Station—at a cost of over $1 million.

The placebo effect can help with weight loss. In one experiment, people told a milkshake was high in calories were far less hungry than people told it was a low-cal shake.

A customer pulled a gun and shot at a Jack in the Box drive-thru window because the manager wouldn’t give him curly fries.

In 2003, an ex-con brutally killed his aunt because he didn’t like her chili. As one reporter noted: "He now faces 30 years-to-life of prison chow."

Someone sued Bagel Bites because they don't contain real cheese or tomato sauce. "They missed the authentic mini pizza bagels," Jimmy Fallon cracked, "that grandma brought back from the old country."

When the world's largest White Castle opened in Orlando in 2021, the line for the drive-thru was 1 mile long.

When tennis star Arthur Ashe lost a match after eating pancakes, he never ate them again on match days.