Mayonnaise was allegedly created for the first time in Mahon, a small town in Minorca where the French were battling the Spanish. The head chef of the Duke de Richelieu created it to make the local food taste better.

It’s origins are even more interesting if you consider that Mahon is named after Mago, a Carthaginian admiral, making ‘mayonnaise’ the only word in the English language to have a Punic etymology.