Accidental food inventions: History's most delicious mistakes
The lazy, vengeful, and forgetful make some great recipes
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Whether it's getting a recipe wonderfully wrong or just getting lucky throwing together random ingredients from your fridge, everyone knows the feeling of having created something new and astonishingly tasty. Little do many people know, however, that some of the world's most beloved foods were born out of mistakes—along with spite, neglect, apathy, and laziness.
Check out this gallery to see the surprising foods that were invented by accident.
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