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Fruitcake
Fruitcake, also called Christmas cake or plum cake, is a dense cake of dried and candied fruit, nuts, and spices, often preserved with brandy or rum. Known for Roman origins, extreme shelf stability, and holiday and wedding traditions.
Fry sauce
Fry sauce is a Utah-Idaho condiment of ketchup and mayonnaise (1:2 or 1:1) for dipping fries. Also called fancy sauce; related to salsa golf, mayoketchup, Marie Rose sauce. Origin credited to Don Carlos Edwards and Arctic Circle, disputed by Provo's Stan's Drive-In.
Frybread
Frybread (fry bread) is a Native American flatbread of flour, water, salt, and baking powder fried in lard or oil, traced to 1864 government rations at Bosque Redondo during the Navajo Long Walk; about 700 calories per plate-size piece.
Frying pan
Frying pan (skillet): a flat, long-handled metal pan for frying, searing, and browning. Made in nonstick, stainless steel, cast iron, carbon steel, and copper; ancient origins; PTFE degrades above 260 °C.
FUBU
FUBU (For Us, By Us) is an American streetwear brand founded in 1992 in Queens, New York, by Daymond John, J. Alexander Martin, Carl Brown, and Keith Perrin; over $6 billion in retail sales, now a licensing business still owned by its four founders.
Fuck, That's Delicious
Fuck, That's Delicious, also called That's Delicious, is an American food-travel series in which Queens rapper and former chef Action Bronson eats his way around the world with friends.
Fuddruckers
Fuddruckers is an American fast-casual burger chain founded by Phil Romano in San Antonio, Texas, known for fresh never-frozen beef, on-site baked buns, and a Build Your Own produce bar; now owned by Nicholas Perkins' Black Titan Franchise Systems since 2021.
Fudge
Fudge: a soft, dense crystalline candy of sugar, butter, and milk or cream, usually chocolate-flavored, boiled to the soft-ball stage (234–238°F) and beaten as it cools; originated in 1880s America, tied to Vassar College and Mackinac Island, distinct from chocolate and Scottish tablet.
Fufu
Fufu (Twi fufuu; also foufou, foutou) is a West and Central African staple dough of boiled, pounded cassava, yam, cocoyam, or plantain, eaten by hand with soups; fermented cassava fufu reduces cyanide by about 91%.
Fuggler
Fuggler (funny ugly monster): collectible plush toy brand created in 2010 by British designer Louise McGettrick, known for human-like teeth and butt-on holes; trademark held by Spin Master, licensed to Libertas Brands, made by ZURU.
Fujian cuisine
Fujian cuisine (闽菜, Min cuisine), one of China's eight major cuisines, comes from coastal Fujian with Fuzhou, Minnan, and Minxi Hakka branches; it is known for seafood, red-yeast lees seasoning, sweet-sour light flavors, and extensive soup-making including Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Ful medames (فول مدمس)
Ful medames (فول مدمس), Egyptian slow-stewed fava beans with oil, lemon, and cumin; Egypt's national breakfast dish, documented in medieval Cairo, eaten across the Levant, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa.
Full breakfast
Full breakfast (fry-up, full English breakfast): a large cooked British and Irish morning meal of bacon, sausages, eggs, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and toast, with Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Ulster variants, about 800–1,200 kcal, served all day in cafes.
Fulling
Fulling, also called milling, tucking, or waulking, is a wet wool-finishing process that cleanses woven cloth and shrinks it 10-50 percent by interlocking wool scales under moisture, heat, and friction; mechanized in water-powered fulling mills from the twelfth century.
Fundoshi (褌)
Fundoshi (褌) is the traditional Japanese loincloth, also called shitaoi, worn by men as underwear until World War II. Main types are rokushaku, Etchu, and mokko; now seen at festivals, in sumo, and in traditional swimming.
Funeral
Funeral rites are the customs and ceremonies performed for the dead, spanning body preparation, commemoration, and disposition. Also called mortuary customs; analyzed via rites of passage (van Gennep, Hertz), U.S. cremation now 63.4% versus 31.6% burial, median U.S. funeral cost $8,300.
Funeral potatoes
Funeral potatoes, also called Mormon funeral potatoes or hash brown casserole, is a Utah cheesy potato casserole named for post-funeral luncheons served by the Latter-day Saint Relief Society.
Funko
Funko (Nasdaq: FNKO) is an American pop culture collectibles company founded in 1998 by Mike Becker in Snohomish, Washington, best known for its Pop! Vinyl figures introduced in 2010; over one billion sold, brands include Pop!, Loungefly and Mondo.
Furikake (ふりかけ)
Furikake (ふりかけ) is a dry Japanese seasoning of sesame seeds, seaweed, and dried fish or egg, sprinkled over cooked white rice or mixed into it; the first commercial product, Gohan no Tomo, appeared around 1913.
Furious Pete
Furious Pete, Peter (Piotr) Czerwinski, Canadian competitive eater, bodybuilder, and YouTuber (~5M subscribers); Guinness record holder (4 hamburgers/minute), 72-oz steak in 6:48, ~90 contests won since 2007.
Furmint
Furmint is a Hungarian white wine grape, the primary variety of sweet Tokaji Aszú and, since the early 2000s, of dry Tokaj whites. Also called Šipon in Slovenia, where it is the world's second biggest grower.
Furry fandom
Furry fandom: community of furries interested in anthropomorphic animal characters. Decentralized, creator-driven; fursonas (~95%), fursuits (15-25%), conventions like Anthrocon; studied by Furscience, subject of stigma and misconceptions.
Fursuit
Fursuit: a custom-made anthropomorphic animal costume worn by fursuiters in the furry fandom; also called zoots. Term coined 1993 by Bob King (disputed); 10-15% of furries own a full suit.
Fusion cuisine
Fusion cuisine, also called fusion food, combines ingredients, techniques, and flavors from multiple culinary traditions. Term coined in 1980s Florida; includes Tex-Mex, chicken tikka masala, and Nikkei cuisine; now often renamed 'New American' or diaspora cuisine.
Fustanella
Fustanella (φουστανέλα), a pleated white knee-length men's skirt of the southern Balkans, worn by Albanian Tosks, Arvanites, klephts, and the Greek Evzones; adopted as Greek court dress under King Otto in 1836.
Futon
Futon (布団): traditional Japanese bedding set of a floor-laid shikifuton mattress and kakefuton quilt, cotton-filled, 5–7.5 cm thick, sun-dried and folded daily; distinct from the Western futon sofa-bed.
G-Star Raw
G-Star Raw: Dutch denim brand founded by Jos van Tilburg in Amsterdam in 1989 (originally GAP STAR), known for raw denim and 3D denim such as the 1996 Elwood; majority-owned by WHP Global since December 2023.
G-string
G-string: minimal undergarment with a small front panel and a thin cord back, first recorded 1878 as "geestring" for Native American loincloths; etymology unknown; stripper sense from the 1930s, mass underwear from the 1990s.
Gabbriette
Gabbriette (Gabriella Leigh Bechtel), American model, musician, and Instagram chef; ex-lead singer of Charli XCX's band Nasty Cherry, namechecked in '360', married The 1975's Matty Healy in 2026; distinct from the Brazilian trap artist 'gabrite'.
Gabriel Aubry
Gabriel Aubry (born 1976, Montreal) is a French-Canadian male model, DKNY and Hugo Boss campaign star and Uomo Vogue cover subject, now also a painter, and father of Nahla with Halle Berry.