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Whipped cream
Whipped cream (crème Chantilly when sweetened) is a foam made by whipping 30–38% fat dairy cream so partially coalesced fat globules stabilize air bubbles; over-whipping yields butter, and plant-based toppings use coconut or palm fats with added emulsifiers.
Whisky
Whisky (whiskey) is a cereal-grain spirit matured in oak. Gaelic uisge beatha, first records Ireland 1405, Scotland 1496; Scotch, bourbon, Irish, and Japanese styles differ by legal definitions, grains, and casks.
Whitaker family
Whitaker family of Marsala and Palermo: Anglo-Sicilian wine merchants (c. 1820) behind Marsala wine and Mozia excavations; today Tenuta Whitaker, a 2007 Fondazione Whitaker–Tasca d'Almerita partnership producing organic Grillo Mozia in Sicily.
Whitbread
Whitbread PLC (WTB, FTSE 100) is a British hospitality company founded in 1742 as a brewery, now the owner of Premier Inn, the UK's largest hotel brand with 86,000+ rooms, plus a growing German estate; it sold Costa in 2019 and is exiting branded restaurants.
White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle, founded 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, by Walt Anderson and Billy Ingram, is credited as the first fast-food hamburger chain, known for square steamed Sliders, standardized operations, and Columbus, Ohio family ownership.
White chocolate
White chocolate: a confection of cocoa butter, milk solids, and sugar with no cocoa solids, defined by FDA (21 CFR 163.124, min 20% cocoa butter, max 55% sweetener) and Codex standards; first commercialized by Nestlé (Galak/Milkybar) in Switzerland in 1936.
White Claw Hard Seltzer
White Claw Hard Seltzer is a 5% ABV alcoholic seltzer launched in the US in 2016 by Mark Anthony Group, made from seltzer water, a gluten-free alcohol base, and fruit flavor; it leads the global hard seltzer market with about 58% share and spans Surge, Clawtails, and Zero Proof lines.
White coffee
White coffee (kopi putih, 白咖啡) most famously means Ipoh white coffee, a Malaysian style with beans roasted in palm-oil margarine and little sugar, served with condensed milk; the term also covers white roast beans, a Lebanese herbal infusion, and coffee with milk.
White Coke
White Coke was a clear, colorless Coca-Cola made in the 1940s for Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, disguised as vodka in straight bottles with a red-star cap; never sold publicly.
White Day (ホワイトデー)
White Day (ホワイトデー) is a Japanese holiday on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day, when men give return gifts, traditionally white confections, to women; it also spread to South Korea and Taiwan.
White dress of Marilyn Monroe
The white dress of Marilyn Monroe is William Travilla's pleated white crepe halter dress from The Seven Year Itch (1955), worn in the subway-grate scene filmed 15 September 1954; it sold for $4.6 million in 2011.
White elephant
A white elephant is a costly possession that is more burden than benefit and hard to dispose of, a term from sacred Southeast Asian elephants.
White meat
White meat is pale meat such as chicken, turkey breast, or veal, classified by low myoglobin; poultry dominates nutritional research. Cohort meta-analyses show lower all-cause mortality but neutral cardiovascular effects, and pork, despite marketing, is scientifically red meat.
White pudding
White pudding is an Irish and Scottish sausage of pork, oatmeal, suet, and seasonings, like black pudding without blood; a full-breakfast staple also deep-fried in Scottish chip shops, with commercial fat of 6.0–22.4% and sodium averaging 867 mg/100 g.
White Rabbit (大白兔奶糖) (candy)
White Rabbit (大白兔奶糖) is a chewy Chinese milk candy made by Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan, launched in 1959 for the PRC's 10th anniversary from the 1943 ABC Mickey Mouse candy, famed for the seven-candies-equal-a-glass-of-milk slogan, 1972 Nixon state-gift role, edible rice-paper wrapper, and the 2008 melamine recall.
White tea
White tea (白茶) is a lightly oxidized Camellia sinensis tea made by withering and drying only, the least processed of China's six major tea types. Grades run Silver Needle, White Peony, Gong Mei, Shou Mei, mostly from Fujian's Fuding and Zhenghe.
White tie
White tie (full evening dress, cravate blanche) is the most formal Western dress code: black tailcoat, white piqué waistcoat, wing collar, and white bow tie for men, floor-length gown for women. Emerged around 1840, declined after World War I, now reserved for state dinners, royal ceremonies, and rare galas.
White wedding
White wedding: the conventional Western church wedding with a bride in a formal white gown, plus reception and honeymoon. Norm traces to Queen Victoria's 1840 dress; studied as tradition, consumption, and inequality.
White wine
White wine: wine fermented without grape-skin contact, from white grapes or pressed juice of red grapes; pale yellow to golden, styles from dry mineral to rich; oldest evidence from Tutankhamun's tomb; OIV-defined skin-contact (orange) variant.
Whitework embroidery
Whitework embroidery is embroidery worked in white thread on white fabric, where texture carries the design; named traditions include broderie anglaise, Ayrshire work, Mountmellick, Hardanger, and chikankari.
Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market: American natural and organic supermarket chain founded 1980 in Austin, Texas, by John Mackey and others; acquired by Amazon in 2017 for about $13.7 billion; 540+ US stores, 575+ banned ingredients, first certified organic national retailer.
Whole wheat bread
Whole wheat bread, also known as wholemeal or whole grain bread, is bread made from whole wheat flour containing all parts of the wheat kernel: bran, germ, and endosperm.
Whoopie pie
Whoopie pie: American sandwich dessert of two chocolate cake rounds with white marshmallow or shortening frosting filling; also called gob in Pennsylvania; Maine's official state treat since 2011.
Whopper
Whopper: Burger King's signature flame-grilled hamburger, introduced 1957 in Miami by McLamore and Edgerton for 37 cents; flagship of the "Home of the Whopper" brand, basis of Have It Your Way and the Impossible Whopper.
Wicker
Wicker (wickerwork) is the weaving of thin flexible sticks, stems, or reeds, traditionally immature willow, into baskets and furniture; the word, from Scandinavian vikker (willow), names the technique, not a material.
Widget (beer)
Widget (beer): a small hollow device, invented at Guinness in Dublin in 1968 by Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand, placed in cans or bottles of nitrogenated beer such as Guinness Draught; it releases a pressurized jet of beer and nitrogen on opening to create a draught-style creamy foam head.
Wiener schnitzel
Wiener Schnitzel, Vienna schnitzel, is Austria's breaded veal cutlet from the Kalbsschlögel, fried in pork lard with a puffed soufflé crust; only veal may bear the name, pork is Schnitzel Wiener Art.
Wig
Wig: a head covering of human hair, synthetic fiber, or a blend, covering most or all of the scalp. Worn for cosmetic, medical, cultural, and religious reasons; also called cranial prosthesis for medical hair loss.
Wildberries
Wildberries (Вайлдберриз) is a Russian e-commerce marketplace founded in 2004 by Tatyana Bakalchuk, selling catalog clothing at first, now a marketplace with tens of millions of buyers, merged with Russ into RWB in 2024.
Wilhelmina Cooper
Wilhelmina Cooper (Gertrude Behmenburg, 1939-1980), Dutch-born model known as Wilhelmina, record Vogue cover model who co-founded Wilhelmina Models in New York in 1967 with husband Bruce Cooper.