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Swipe to read all about ketchup as a medicine!
21/02/2024

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Who doesn’t enjoy their fries with ketchup? Today it’s one of our favorite condiments, but did you know that back in the...
21/02/2024

Who doesn’t enjoy their fries with ketchup? Today it’s one of our favorite condiments, but did you know that back in the 1830s, ketchup was sold as a medicine? People claimed that it could cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion and jaundice.The idea came from an American physician, called Dr. John Cook Bennett, in 1834. He even sold ketchup pills! After him, other people tried to sell “ketchup” pills as well, but that didn’t succeed because they basically worked like laxatives. 

Photo source: World Wide Facts, Example of a ketchup advertisement in the 1800s, via Medium, JustAnnet. March 28, 2021.

When you’re kneading dough, you do it with your hands, right? Well, normally yes. In ancient Egypt they had different th...
13/02/2024

When you’re kneading dough, you do it with your hands, right? Well, normally yes. In ancient Egypt they had different thoughts on that though. Sometimes bakers kneaded bread dough with their feet! They would walk across it in order to flatten it. Of course, they also used their hands, but maybe their feet were more practical? An interesting method indeed.  

Source photo 1: Granger, Egypt Bread Making, Fine Art America. February 17th, 2016.

Source photo 2: Seamus Blackley, The result. On Twitter. Smithsonian Magazine. August 8th, 2019. 

When we say ‘follow the breadcrumbs’, you say
? Exactly! Hansel and Gretel. The famous story was  written by the Brother...
10/01/2024

When we say ‘follow the breadcrumbs’, you say
? Exactly! Hansel and Gretel. The famous story was  written by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. Most stories are inspired by an actual (historical) event. And this story is no exception. 

In 1314, the Great Famine (1314-1322) struck Europe. In order to not starve to death, people did the most horrible things imaginable. Some adults didn’t eat so that their children could survive. Others ate or abandoned their children in order to not starve. That does sound a lot like what happened in Hansel and Gretel, doesn’t it? The witch trying to eat Hansel, their parents who abandoned them. This is only a theory that scholars brought up, though, but maybe there is some truth to it?


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