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While black cats and the number 13 tend to put the fear in some people, these superstitions are just some of the many that have become folklore in our world culture. Food is an element that is quite dominant in superstitions including “Throwing salt over your shoulder” and “how to keep vampires away with garlic.” - those are obvious. But there are some that you may have never heard of like did you know it’s bad luck to cut a banana and also never bring one aboard a ship - you may get lost at sea!

Peru’s cuisine is ranked as one of the world’s best with eight of its world-class restaurants ranked in the Top 50 in the world. The country is also a trendsetter when it comes to introducing new superfoods - previously choosing Maca and Quinoa as superfoods in which the rest of the world took notice and followed.

It’s one of life’s biggest “arse” pains. Trying to navigate through life without staining your clothes, staining the carpets, staining your reputation. Life is hard enough and walking around with stains on your clothes is like a social sin - keep the hot sauce on your tacos, not on your shirt. But alas, it happens, stains happen and while we worry about wine and blood, sometimes that juicy, spicy, goddess of a sauce can creep on our shirts and carpets like that nerdy, socially-awkward co-worker trying to ask you on a date.

If only Pirates knew about the power of peppers… While the spicy peppers were a good source of Vitamin C to prevent scurvy, they also were later discovered that they help maintain the health of ships which would have come in handy when looking for buried treasures on the high seas.