Here Are Popular Food And Drink Items That Were Invented By Mistake (35 Pics)

bored panda ^ | 1/27/2021

[a fool in paradise]

Soylent Green

waste not, want not

[Responsibility2nd]

Either post the pics or list them.

Don’t be a clickbait pimp.

[mylife]

Bite me, click another article.

[KarlInOhio]

Artificial Sweetener

Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins University in 1879, probably forgot to wash his hands upon returning home after work and noticed a sweet taste on some part of his palm. It was connected to overboiled sulfobenzoic acid, phosphorus chloride, and ammonia - Constantin tested the compound and, upon returning to Germany, started producing artificial sweetener: Saccharin.

Oh, those wacky Germans. They are either accidentally investing saccharin or sarin.

[outofsalt]

You got peanut butter on my chocolate!!!

[mylife]

Yuppers

[a fool in paradise]

>> a chemist at Johns Hopkins University in 1879, probably forgot to wash his hands upon returning home after work and noticed a sweet taste on some part of his palm

And another scientist invented LSD by accidently ingesting his creation.

And the WuFlu scientists apparently had sloppy technique as well.

People telling us to wash our hands every 20 minutes. Do the people who deal with chemicals and biological agents in a lab setting follow ANY safety protocols?

LICKING YOUR HANDS AFTERWARDS???

[butlerweave]

Don’t forget Ivory Soap , the soap that floats . Some guy went to lunch and left the machine running and Bingo ,LOL

[kaktuskid]

The Popsicle

[moovova]

“...and Coke was sold as medicine that perhaps contained cocaine?”

Darn FDA. Life used to be fun until they came along.

[moovova]

...oh and, the cornflakes didn’t work.

[dainbramaged]

I didn’t know about popsicles - my mother used to make them with Koolaid and ice cube trays in a Philco fridge with a freezer the size of a shoebox. About 60 years ago.

[Migraine]

My favorite of these was the one about werstersher sauce.

[I-ambush]

I appreciated the story about the invention of the ice cream cone at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Ernest Hamwi, the Syrian immigrant who invented it is my great-grandfather.

[mylife]

Cool!

[Deaf Smith]

Texas Pizza Bread.

Mom made it in late 60's through 70's, and me ever since.

We thought it was some NYC thing she copied.

I made some for neighbors in MA in '98. They had never seen or eaten such.

1999, Texas Pizza Bread was in the grocery stores up there.

First time I ever knew what the meal was called.

[mylife]

Like on Tx toast?

[mylife]

Like on Tx toast?

[Deaf Smith]

French bread cut into two flats.

Main meat was Jimmy Dean's hot, ground sausage.