How food items got their names

Ever had that moment at the dinning room where you wonder how the delicious Bacon you're devouring got its name. Well it's funny to think that every word has got its origin from somewhere or the other. The name of every food item has been derrived from somewhere. We've made list of the origns of some of the most common food items, after a whole lot of internet research for the roots of these tasty treats.

So stop scratching your skull thinking why is this pasta I'm eating called 'Pasta' and read on

'Pasta' That's obviously Italian, but it has its origins dating back to ancient Greee, when the word 'Pastos' was used to desrcibe anything that tasted salty. It soon evolved into the word pasta, which was used to describe a semi-solid prorridge-like preparation, the Romans later adopted the word to describe dough. Here's something you probably didn't know, the noodles that we call pasta today was introduced in the ninth century by Arabs in Sicily.

Pizza comes from the word 'Pita', which dates back to The Greek word ' Pitta' which means solid and the Latin verb 'Pinsere' which means 'to press'.Hmm that actually makes a lot of sense now, if you know how the dough is made for Pizza.

Bread , is eaten globally. The word itself is an old English word. It dates back to the earliest Germanic languages, with a root that originally meant either , or break.