I've always loved digging up strange little facts about random things people usually overlook or don't put much thought into. It's something I've kept going as an ongoing series since last year, where I just follow whatever interesting rabbit holes come up. This time, I wanted to focus specifically on food, since some of our favorite foods have surprising origin stories. These are some of my favorite food-based facts I've come across: 1. Chicken nuggets feel like a longtime staple, but they’re actually a ~fairly~ recent invention. They were first developed in 1963 by Robert C. Baker , a food science professor at Cornell University who was looking for new ways to make processed chicken more practical and appealing. At the time, Americans didn't eat much chicken, with one reason being that they were usually only sold whole. His method made it possible to form ground chicken into uniform pieces that could be breaded and cooked efficiently without falling apart.…