Some of the greatest discoveries are made by accident and it’s no exception when it comes to food. From champagne to potato chips, here are ten delicious foods that were born as a result of good fortune.

If you ever need some validation that failure can lead to success, then take a look at the origin of some of your favourite delicious food.

1. Potato Chips



A long time ago, before anybody reading this article was born (1853 to be precise) a customer kept sending a potato dish back again and again because they were too thick and he wanted a crisper chip. Try sending your food here in Nigeria and see what happens, we promise you it won’t be pretty.

Anyways, he kept sending the chips and this made the chef of the restaurant so angry that he deep-fried the taters into oil and sprinkled them with salt to serve. Lo! And behold, the customer loved them.

There, kids, is how potato chips were invented.

2. Saccharin

This possibly cancer-causing invention has a nice story to it.

Saccharin became a food item when a chemical spilled on the hand of a researcher right before he ate lunch. Neglecting to wash his hand, he tasted the super sweet chemical on the bread he was eating.

It turns out that the researcher was actually trying to find alternative uses for coal tar and he ended up finding something sweeter.

Five years later he was issued a patent for the food.

3. Ice Cream Cones



Some people would argue that ice cream in forever incomplete without an ice cream cones, well, before the invention of ice cream cones, ice cream were usually sold in cups and plates. Sad, don’t you think?

Ice cream cones were invented when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups, his good Samaritan neighbour who happens to sell pastry decided to help out by wrapping his pastry into cones. And voila . . . the ice cream cone is born.

Even though the story of this story made headlines during its time, it is important to note that an Italian immigrant had already filed a patent for ice cream cones earlier that year.

You know what they say, great minds think alike.

4. Corn Flakes



Two brothers were trying to find healthy food to serve to their patients and when they accidentally let some boiled wheat go stale, since they weren’t ready to waste the stale, boiled wheat, they decided to see what they could do with the product.

When they tried rolling the hardened dough it cracked into flakes, which the brothers then toasted.

The patients liked the toasted flakes so much that the brothers started experimenting with other grains. Corn was an instant success.

Thus corn flakes came into being, changing breakfast forever.

5. Popsicle



It was 1905 and soda pop had just become the most popular drink on the market. 11 year old Frank Epperson decided he wanted to try saving some money by making his own at home.

Using a combination of powder and water he got pretty close but then absentmindedly left the concoction out on the porch all night. Temperatures ended up dropping severely and when he came out in the morning he found his mixture frozen with the stirring stick still in it.

But the frozen pop tasted great! Frank started selling Epperson icicles.

Eventually, his kids would refer to the frozen pop as Pop’s ‘sicle, causing Epperson to change the name.

Epperson sold the rights to Popsicle® and today, the company sells 2 billion ice pops annually, with cherry being the most popular flavor amongst its consumers.

6. Sandwiches



Rumor has that, one day, the Earl of Sandwich was so busy gambling, he did not want to go to leave his gambling table.

So, he ordered some food to be piled between two slices of bread, which he ate while gambling.

The sandwich has been popular ever since

It’s said that the Earl of Sandwich thought of this as a great way to get in a proper meal without the effort of sitting down to dine

7. Coffee

The truth of this one is a bit murky, but the Legend of Kaldi maintains that an Ethiopian goat herder noticed that his flock was acting especially frisky after chowing down on some bright red berries.

After sampling some for himself and verifying the mood shift, he brought the berries to a local imam who studied them, eventually roasting and boiling a batch in water, thus introducing the world to coffee.

8. Cheese Puffs (What you like to call Cheese Balls)



The popular orange treat was just a by-product that was accidentally discovered in the 1930’s.

Created by the Flakall Company, who used flaking machines to break down their livestock feed, the initial orange puff was a result of the moistened corn kernels that were used to prevent the machine from clogging.

It was machine operator Edward Wilson who took the puffed pieces home and made a unique, seasoned treat, but the rest of the world got to taste the unique puff under the brand name they were first known as, Korn Kurls.

9. Coca Cola

The most famous liquid, after water, the popular, carbonated Coke actually started out as an alcoholic beverage.

Invented by Dr. John Stith Pemberton in 1885 as a means in which to calm his patients, the drink then known as Pemberton’s French Wine Coca was forced to change its alcoholic ingredient with the onset of Prohibition.

While the drink had been created as a means to deal with ailments like headaches, impotence and morphine addiction, the first sales of the beverage assured its early popularity and today it remains the most popular of carbonated beverages.

10.Yoghurt

It’s believed that yogurt developed at a time when milk-producing animals became domesticated, possibly around 5,000 B.C.

To transport the animal milk, the milk was often placed in sacks made from the stomachs of animals.

It’s believed that the bacteria as well as the acidity from the lining of the stomachs prompted the milk to coagulate, forming the beginnings of yogurt.

While the story behind yoghurt makes it one of the first processed foods, the diary treat still persists today as a favorite and a daily staple for many

What recipe have you ever invented by mistake? Let us know in the comment section below and we promise not to steal it

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Interesting tho

This is interesting.

Most accidental recipe tends to be the bomb

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Wow

Hmmmm, good to know!

Great write up.

Do you know who invented Salad?




Answer: POOR PEOPLE.

waoh!

Dese stories sha

I can't believe this because research is being done on agricultural produce on a daily basis so as to obtain new type of foods for proper growth and healthy living of man.

An intresting read...Nice.

good to know and interesting too.

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What of bread and beans.


the combo was found accidently by some Nigeria bricklayers in d year 1772

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intresting

Even eba sef

nawa o..op..i was expectin naija foods...wetin concern me wit all dis shit! All yoruba food na accidental inventions!

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You are a liar, Oniror nie ... Ahdonbelivit

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interesting!!

Interesting.

Concortion nko?

op.... (in bovi's voice) u lie..

Am bored.. will this accidental foods spice up the boredom.?

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Accidental relationships also turn out to be great ones too