If you thought juicy , batshit confederacy theories were limited to act of war , mid-‘90sMel Gibson vehicles , and Beyonce - Z ’s marriage … you understandably have n’t been exposed to enough unearthly corners of the internet : even what we eat and drink is suspect to bonkers legends and ( sometimes ) fabulously disturbing truths .
There ’s no cite of Illuminati here ( though some would argue the all - embrace Illuminati is everywhere , I estimate ) , but therearemutant chicken , incarnate burrito sabotage , and an assortment of wacky , tin foil hat - worthy notions that might make you question the sanity of our nation .
You do n’t have tolisten to thiswhile you study … but yeah , you kind of do .
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The government controls us with water fluoridation
The well move late on this weewee - establish confederacy . When theUS government precede fluorideto a portion of America ’s public water supplies ( to ameliorate teeth wellness ) in the former 1940s , the conspiracy started to aviate like ill shoot UFO ’s over trailer parks . In a twist straight out ofDr . Strangelove , some skeptics claimed fluoridisation was aCommunist plotto infiltrate our cherished bodily fluids and ensure our judgement . And speculation onlygot worse as the Cold Warprogressed – asdid habiliment choices , by the way .
Now , faction of dissenters with semi - slick websitesare still debate that it is a worldwide toxicity risk , commit by our very governance for variously shady reasons , like purposelydamaging parts of our brainsto make Americans less healthy and more docile . Others but object because it is , in heart , mass medicine that one can not choose out of easily . And the morals of mass medication ( even for healthful reasons ) can be debated just as much as how helpful or harmful fluoride really is . At least nine out of 10 dentist just consort that ithelps keep cavities , though .
Truth - o - Meter : I believably would n’t worry about it , crazy .
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“New Coke” was a marketing stunt to reignite interest in Coca-Cola
Marketers are known to pull in some suspect stunt for gather care and build hype . For example , some sayCalvin Harris and Taylor Swift ’s feudis all media manipulation to promote all parties . possibly they are right . But in this caseful , Coca - Cola introduce its " Modern expression " in April of 1985 , and the world pretty much hat it . When the cola gargantuan readily alternate back to its old convention ( to much fanfare ) , some faultfinder claimed the programme was to dupe the world with a incorrect raw product all along – just to get people interested in the sometime cola once again .
Even for a company as handsome as Coke , it would be too much of a risk to develop , cook up , and encourage a new product simply to get people make off , then bank on them render to an existing product . Ex - Coke President Donald Keoughcountered the queries , saying , " We ’re not that obtuse , and we ’re not that smart . " fathom about right .
Truth - o - measure : Almost definitely not true
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Tim Hortons’ coffee is super addictive because it’s laced with nicotine
Canada’smore polite answerto Dunkin ' is apparently so all-fired addictive that wellness - witting Canucks speculated that the Great North ’s coffee giantspiked its brewage with nicotine . And thus , one of Canada ’s most brook urban legends was born .
The rumour remove such a fever pitch , that it ’s actually addressed on Tim Hortons’official website– create sure the public knows the coffee bean range name after theeponymous NHL studis not in reality drug its loyal customers , eh .
Canada might run on Hortons , but it does n’t run on nicotine . Oh await , yes it does – they justsmoke and manducate their nicotine(the one-time - fashioned room ! ) , rather than booze it .
Truth - O - measure : Not dependable , surrey
Fast-food restaurants grow mutant chickens
This is afood conspiracyso prevalent , many people just wear it ’s true . Here ’s the kernel : fast - food for thought mega - Ernst Boris Chain are genetically splice poulet to create Franken - animate being optimal for aggregated production . Meaning , they might be making chicken without heads , feathers , or foot , with extra tit and wings . It ’s porcine . While it may seem like a flash fanfiction rip on Aldous Huxley , it ’s not without precedent . transmissible engineering , factory husbandry , and overall widespread global fury have create a climatewhere literally anything is potential . Even genetically modified fowl .
immobile - solid food spotslike KFC have go outof their way to disprove these claims , and in all honesty , unless this is a cabal that also demand extremely elevated governance collusion ( which , I signify … is possible ) , it ’s hard to imagine the FDA not break through down on this – not to cite the lack of pushback from horde of creature - rights activists , whotend to be pretty vivid about these things .
That being said , there ’s never really been any concrete grounds , either elbow room .
Truth - O - Meter : Probably and hopefully not true
Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak was the result of corporate sabotage
In 2016 , fast - casual burrito enthusiasts were left reeling whena string of E. Coli outbreakswere recorded at Chipotle outposts across the body politic . Eventually , thebacteria tapered off . of necessity , theconspiracy theoriesrolled in .
There’san idiotic amount of ground to cross , but the conspiracy fodder fundamentally consist of GMO mega - corporations ( the " bio - tech Maffia " ) purposefully infiltrating and lacing Chipotle ’s meat with the bacterium in an endeavor to bring the the carnitas - slinger ` down from the interior . Chipotle is one of themost outspoken opponentsof GMOs , so it do horse sense for it to be a primary target . Well , if any of this clobber even makes sensory faculty in the first place .
A interpreter from Chipotle courteously but short delivered this statement to Thrillist : " We have see some of those conspiracy theories , but have n’t visualise any evidence to support them . "
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Truth - O - time : It ’s not impossible , but it ’s also not very likely
The government is hiding how tremendously unhealthy processed sugar is for the sake of lobbyists
If you ’ve ever call the dental practitioner or caught a promo forThe Biggest Loser , you know sugar – or at least the kindweeat – is n’t that great for you . This is no batshit urban legend . Whatisa theory ( and competently referred to as the"sugar conspiracy " ) is that sugar might be even worse for our body than most people know about , and its honest gist are being enshroud up by the government . Zoinks !
The claims trace their source back to an Australian scientist and prof of alimentation John Yudkin . In his 1972 book , double-dyed White and Deadly , Yudkin state , " If only a small fraction of what we know about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food linear , that material would promptly be banned , " and basically claims that carbohydrate – not fatty – is the prime driver behind obesity and associate ailments like diabetes and heart disease .
At this point , the history basically delvesinto a familiarnarrative : dough is kept ( relatively ) awake and well by lobbyist and bankroll corporation , making sure the world at tumid does n’t catch a gander of clams ’s genuine dangers – and insure that work on pelf persist in the majority of spate - consumed food .
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In a sign that these plotter may really be on to something , the US government hascracked down on sugarover the past year . And awaveofrecentbooks / authors have pick up where Yudkin left off . It ’s no coincidenceno - sugar dietshave been on the raise . Which really sucks because Fun Dip is delectable , if not potentially venomous .
Truth - oxygen - Meter : There ’s a very dear prospect this is unfeigned . Yeah .
Kobe beef doesn’t exist in America
So , " does n’t exist " is alittlehyperbolic , but itisprobable that you ’ve never had Kobe squawk before , even if you ’ve order it . Out of the thousands of eating house that claim to swear out up Kobe , only three in the United States are actually certified to serve substantial Kobe bitch ( which must come from wagyu cattle , raised in Japan ’s Hyogo Prefecture ) , and the rest are straight - up lyin ' .
There have been whisper of the farce for decades , but the lid was blown off the squawk by a2012Forbespiece by diary keeper Larry Olmsted . According to Olmsted ’s recently discharge book , Real Food / Fake Food , only three stateside restaurants are actually indorse to sell the Japanese uber - beef:212 Steakhousein New York City , the Wynn Las Vegas , andHawaii ’s Teppanyaki Ginza Sumikawa . So , when you see it protrude up on a menu anywhere else , it ’s mislabeled as an attempt to cash in on the overwhelming demand for Kobe – which has become a foodie cant of sort over the preceding twosome decades . The dependable verity is this : Kobe is not a bargain meat , it does n’t come on the bone , and it ’s decidedly not in your Kobe beef burger .
The beef you are feed still might be good , but it ai n’t Kobe , baby . And you ’re plausibly paying too much for it .
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Truth - group O - Meter : Mostly rightful ! Excluding those three listed restaurants , it ’s not a conspiracy at all .
Fondue’s popularity in the ’70s was a lie. A big, fat, Swiss lie!
Fondue – like turtlenecks and primal parties ( ask your parents ) – strike peak popularity in the mid-’70s , and even though Ernst Boris Chain eatery likeThe Melting Potkeep the partake in - cheesy spirit alive in modern America , it ’s hard to grasp just how hip fondu parties were unless you lived through the discotheque old age . The brutal accuracy ? Fondue is , at its embarrassing substance , a marketing machine doctoredby a immensely influential group of cheesemakers from Switzerland . Welcome , to the real humankind ( of tall mallow collusion ) .
Have you ever heard of theSwiss Cheese Union ? It ’s not an unimaginative , high mallow - centric hip - hops collective , it ’s a legion of cheesemakers who banded together concisely after WWI , when cheese phthisis was at an all - clock time low gear , to fix prices , reduce supply , limit the types of cheeses that were legal to make , and strong - arm any smaller operations to either assent or get the netherworld out of the high mallow business in Cosa Nostra - esque fashion . Basically , they made Swiss cheese great again .
In compounding with deep - seated level of politics collaboration , and an orchestrated selling push thatmade fondue seem like the hot thingfor swingers since the Second Coming of thewater layer , fondue became a worldwide maven .
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And no , I ’m not fucking with you .
Truth - oxygen - Meter : Definitely rightful , and well documented
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