Food Quiz With Delicious and Interesting Answers
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Browsing old computer files the other day I came across a folder of trivia questions from way back when I was a Quiz Mistress. What with that and cheffing I was a busy woman! Not surprisingly a fair few of the questions concerned food so, as apparently a lot of people are sitting at home wondering what to do with themselves, I thought I’d try to help out with this food quiz.
Hopefully this will not only pass a little time but some some of them questions have interesting and delicious answers so have a go but, even if you don’t know the answers, do read on down.
Food Quiz Questions
1. Which food contains phenylethylamine, which triggers the same reaction in the body as falling in love and its effects have also been compared to those or marijuana.
2. What are Glamorgan sausages made with?
3. Foodwise, to what does “London Particular” refer?
4. What is the most stolen food in the world?
5. Which condiment was once sold as a medicine?
6. What happens to a rotten egg if you put it in a bowl of water?
7. Which popular food should you take extra care when purchasing – it could actually be wood?
8. What is Bombay Duck?
9. What category of food is a peanut?
10. Human DNA is 60% the same as which fruit?
11. Where is it illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket?
12. Which food never goes off?
13. What is the main ingredient of black pudding?
14. Which country produces the most olive oil?
15. From which type of flower are vanilla pods obtained?
16. Which fruit is it illegal to take on the subway in Singapore.
17. According to the Old Testament which miraculous food did the Israelites find in the wilderness?
18. Which fruit comes in the following sizes – bullets, brilliant, jumbo, colossal and f……. huge? Sorry I mean super mammoth?
19. What are love apples?
20. What is Alliumphobia?
Food Quiz Answers
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Oh go on then!
1. Chocolate. In fact, according to Medicine Hunter …
“Chocolate is a complex material possessing numerous compounds that act upon the the brain, producing a sense of delight that no other substance can replicate.”
So, for sheer delight, see here for my 10 Best Chocolate Recipes.
2. Cheese. Caerphilly cheese to be precise, and are a great way of using up leftover cheese scraps. Here’s the Glamorgan Sausage recipe.
3. Split Pea Soup London Particular is a name commonly given to split pea soup. The thick fogs that used to occur in London up till the 1950s were called pea soupers after the soup and then the soup was named London Particular after the fog. I wonder what will happen next! Recipe for London Particular here plus a Horrible Story.
4. Cheese. According to Global Retail Theft Barometer and Checkpoint Systems the reasons why cheese is frequently stolen include …
“high demand, easy ‘disposal’ by thieves and small, mobile formats that make it easy to conceal”
I thought it was because it is delicious! If you do have any stolen or even bought cheese that needs using up here are 64 tempting ideas for cheese.
5. Tomato Ketchup. A certain Dr. John Cook Bennett sold tomato ketchup in 1834, as a medicine that cured you of diarrhea, jaundice, indigestion, and rheumatism. See here for lots of ways to help the ketchup go down!!
6. It will float – see here for how to store and cook non-floating eggs, throw the floaters away.
7. Parmesan cheese. In the past Parmesan was sometimes made from grated umbrella handles, honestly, and apparently a similar thing still goes on. Read more here plus some delicious reasons to by real Parmesan.
8. Fish – not a duck at all! Bombay duck is fish; pieces of Indian or Bangladeshi bummalo fish that are dried in the sun and then fried or baked till crisp and crumbled over curry.
Apparently it gets its name from the train it was transported in – the Bombay Daak; daak is Hindi for mail.
Bombay Duck was once banned by the EU as the bummalo fish are dried outside, but now we have got over that and it is imported to the UK.
9. Peanuts are actually legumes; edible seeds that grow in pods – like chickpeas, lentils, kidney beans and beany things in general. See here for the difference between a nut and a legume.
10. Bananas – here’s why I am so disappointed by this!
11. Alabama – oddly enough this law was instigated to prevent horse stealing! Long ago, apparently, naughty people would put an ice cream cone in their back pocket to lure horses away oddly enough.
I don’t have a picure of this happening but here is a picture of the sort of thing I am talking about …
12. Honey Pure unadulterated honey will last for thousands of years. It may crystallise before then and look strange but that problem is easily dealt with here.
13. Blood, usually pigs’ blood, together with oatmeal and pork fat or, sometimes, beef suet. It is much nicer than it sounds and here’s some delicious ways to enjoy black pudding including one rather strange idea.
15. Orchid. Vanilla pods are the seed pods of the orchid Vanilla Planifolia and they are delicious!
16. Durian
According to Wikipedia …
“its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.”
I agree with that – I have smelled them but not, I’m afraid, tasted them. Apparently, they are creamy and taste both sweet and savoury at the same time.
17. Manna. I’m afraid I have no recipes or pictures for this although it sounds like good stuff. I read on Chadabad.org that, according to the Torah …
“The Torah describes the taste as being similar to that of something fried in
oil and honey. The manna was adapted to the taste of each individual; to the adult it
tasted like the food of the adult, while it tasted like breastmilk for a baby. By wishing,
one could taste in the manna anything desired, whether beef, fruit or grain”
18. Olives Here is a chart of olive sizes for your edification.
19. Tomatoes When first introduced from Morocco the Italians called them “pomi de Mori”, meaning “apples of the Moors”. Fair enough! Maybe the French mis-understood or corrupted this as they then called them “pommes d’amore”, (meaning “apples of love”). After this tomatoes were thought (or hoped) to have an aphrodisiac effect.
20. Fear of garlic. If you, happily, don’t suffer from this affliction then see here for delicious ways to use fresh, wild, roasted, smoked and black garlic.
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Suzy Bowler
Having been a somewhat itinerant chef for over 30 years I was amazed, on my return to the UK, at the blatant food waste that now seems to be rife in the country; amazed and irritated. So much so that I decided to start a blog about spontaneous cooking from leftovers to show people that there are great alternatives to throwing food away.
