100 Mind-Blowing Menu Facts

The roast camel is the largest menu item in the world. This is served as a whole camel that is stuffed with lamb that has been stuffed with chickens. The chickens are also stuffed with fish or eggs. Several stages of stuffing also include rice or other fixings mixed in.

McDonald’s once had bubblegum-flavoured broccoli on the menu.

In 2014, McDonald’s created bubblegum-flavoured broccoli to put in Happy Meals. (After taste tests with kids, the broccoli never made it onto the menu.)

The earliest menu dates back to the mid-1700s. They first popped up in Europe around then to accommodate high-class residents during dinner parties.

There’s a restaurant in New York that employs grandmas instead of chefs. The menu at Enoteca Maria is a little unconventional, as half of it is a fixed Italian menu while the other half changes daily. This is because a different grandmother comes in every day with not just a new menu but a completely new cuisine! The owner decided to run his restaurant like this as he had lost all maternal figures in his life and wanted to re-create the feeling of eating in his grandmother’s kitchen.

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