Semi-related fun fact: The center of a KitKat is partly made of crushed off-cuts of the previous batch of KitKats. Which begs the question… what was the first KitKat made of?

  • dumples
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    294 months ago

    Continuous soup was a pretty common meal in pre industrial times for poorer people as well as cheap taverns. It’s just a pot on a low fire that had various meats, vegetables, herbs, water and sauces added whenever it got low. It kind of sounds delicious

    • Zorque
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      174 months ago

      If my recollection of internet topics isn’t failing me (it probably is), there’s a pot of soup in like China or something that has been in continuous use for the last several hundred years.

  • palordrolap
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    74 months ago

    If I remember right, the ingredient that’s made from the previous batch is the filling between the wafers. Without that, they could have just mashed up some wafer and chocolate to get something of the right consistency, but I’d bet they just used chocolate instead.

  • @TheSlad
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    44 months ago

    Supposedly tootsie rolls are also made with the previous day’s leftover tootsie-dough.

    • SjmarfOP
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      34 months ago

      It’s a joke about “The Fibonacci Sequence”. The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers. It starts with 0 and 1, and every subsequent number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. So that first 10 terms are as follows:

      0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 33

      The image shows an advertisement for “Fibonacci’s Soup”, which doesn’t actually exist. It claims to be made from a combination of the previous two days’ soup batches, in the same way that each number in Fibonacci’s sequence is the sum of the two numbers before it.