The food quiz with answers

Dedicated to My father A man who delighted in good food and drink And never stopped encouraging me to try new things, Sometimes against my will.

In 1981, X, a brand of non-shelf-stable _______ was introduced by Golden Valley Foods, with the uncooked product requiring refrigeration before use since the fats used in it would turn rancid if it wasn’t kept chilled. However, in 1984, Y, Golden Valley introduced a shelf-stable version that could be cooked straight out of the packet, and since this product was a sequel of sorts to X, it was named accordingly. Name Y, fill in the blanks.

The idea for Baskin-Robbins’ 31 Flavours came from the Carson-Roberts advertising agency (which later became Ogilvy & Mather) in 1953, mainly because 31 was more than the 28 flavours that was being offered by the then-biggest ice-cream parlour franchise in America. Which franchise?

Identify the tennis stars appearing in a 2003 Got Milk? ad.

Chris Evert Monica Seles Mary Jo Fernandez

Like all members of the poison ivy family, the ______ contain urushiol, the chemical in poison ivy and poison sumac that can cause urushiol-induced contact dermatitis in susceptible people. Cross-reactions between _____ contact allergens and urushiol have been observed, and those with a history of poison ivy or poison oak may be most at risk for such an allergic reaction when they eat a _____ that has not been properly prepared. This is why the _____ should not be eaten with the skin intact, although this is the preferred method of eating some varieties. Urushiol is also present in _____ leaves and vines, and the smoke produced by a _____ wood fire can be poisonous to susceptible people. Fill in the blanks.

These are the standard ingredients and tools used when making __________ the traditional way. What?

When rapeseed oil was first introduced into America in the early 1970s, its producers and marketers wanted to give it a different name, one that would sound less odd to the ears of the average American. The name that the advertising firm they hired came up with was a portmanteau of the oil’s country of origin, and the fact that there were virtually no saturated fatty oils present in their product. This new name proved popular, and is now also in use in other countries, including India. What name?

Canola, from Can adian o il, l ow a cid.

This 1966 book was the basis of a 1973 movie although a lot of the plot was changed, and one important plot point, involving high-energy plankton, was added. Name the movie.

India's first national seminar on _____ or Garcinia indica was held March 4-5, 2005 at the Goa University, Goa. Those researching the crop see a bright future for it: it is rainfed, has no diseases or pests apart from monkeys, and is almost a “zero-attention” crop. One paper presented at the Goa seminar suggests that the Garcinia indica has medicinal uses both as a digestive tonic, and to cope with paralysis. In the first case, about half to one glass of _____ infusion is prepared, with a little salt and sugar, to be drank after meals. For paralysis, the cleaned and chopped stem bark is finely powdered and is added to boiling water. After 2-3 minutes, this decoction is lightly cooled and is used for washing the affected parts, two to three times a day. _____ juice is also effective against bee bites and other insect bites, and sun exposure-related symptoms. Fill in the blanks with an indigenous fruit.

_____ ____ is used in cuisines throughout the world in both sweet and savoury dishes, but in western cuisine, it is usually ground to a paste and used as a filling for pastries and cakes. To the paste other ingredients are added: usually sugar or honey, milk and maybe butter, lemon zest and sometimes, fruit juice. _____ ____ can be ground using a generic tool such as a mortar and pestle or a small domestic type electric blade grinder, or a special purpose _____ ____ grinder. A _____ ____ grinder (mill) is a type of burr grinder with a set aperture that is too narrow for intact _____ ____ to pass through. A burr grinder produces a more uniform and less oily paste than these other tools.

Before the industrialization of agriculture, a much wider variety of plant foods was grown for human consumption. In modern agriculture in the industrialized world, most food crops are now grown in large, monocultural plots. In order to maximize consistency, few varieties of each type of crop are grown. These varieties are often selected for their productivity, their ability to withstand mechanical picking and cross-country shipping, and their tolerance to drought, frost, or pesticides. ________ gardening is a reaction against this trend. ________ growers have different motivations. Some people grow _________ for historical interest, while others want to increase the available gene pool for a particular plant for future generations. Some select ________ plants due to an interest in traditional organic gardening. Many simply want to taste the different varieties of vegetables, or see whether they can grow a rare variety of plant. Fill in the blanks.

X's second book, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession , which details the offers and experiences she had after the publication of her first book _____ ___ _____: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen as well as her experiences learning the butcher trade, was published November 30, 2009, in order to coincide with a related event. ID X & fill in the blanks.

Julie Powell, who wrote Julie & Julia.

Marie-Antoine Carême (8 June 1784–12 January 1833), known as "The King of Chefs, and the Chef of Kings" was an early practitioner and exponent of the elaborate style of cooking known as haute cuisine, the "high art" of French cooking. Carême is often considered as one of the first, internationally renowned celebrity chefs. His fame was secured, however, when he returned from a trip to Russia in 1815, and started a trend in France that continues to this day throughout the world. What?

Service a la Russe, or the idea of serving meals in courses as opposed to serving all dishes at once.

Another Carême innovation was the widespread use of the _____, although Boucher, the personal chef of the French statesman Talleyrand, was the first to insist on a ______for sanitary reasons . The many folds on a _____ are believed to signify the many ways that an egg can be cooked, although this is now seen as an urban legend as most ______ have exactly 100 pleats, and the number of egg recipes, even in Carême’s day, far exceeded a hundred. Fill in the blanks.

These trademarked items first went on sale in California in 2007, and have now spread all over the country. Identify.

An important new use for this infamous substance has to do with the fact that inhaling or sniffing ______ vapor has an effect like smelling salts, and this property has been exploited by researchers attempting to create a smoke alarm for the deaf. One deaf subject participating in a test of the prototype awoke within 10 seconds of ______ vapor being sprayed into his sleeping chamber. Fill in the blanks.

Connect and complete with the most famous member of an infamous list.

Patriotic renaming, with the most famous example being French fries -> Freedom fries. During World War I, sauerkraut was renamed Liberty Cabbage by the Americans, and the British were responsible for changing German Biscuits to Empire Biscuits In Iran, during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006, Iran changed the name of Danish pastry to "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad".

From a review on bangaloreblues.com: “ I first discovered _________ ______in 1977 as I was walking back home one evening after Sanskrit tuition. That day my cycle was "out of order" so I walked. I still remember getting hit by the aroma and wondering where it came from. Its then that I saw _________ ______. For those who are not familiar with _________ ______, although its on the main road, the entrance is actually set back a bit, so you really have to look. I walked in and boom!. There they were a sea of noisy humanity some eating, some waiting, all with looks of bliss on their faces, happy just to be there... After that, _________ ______ became a regular stop. The sight of waiters carrying 20 _____ at one time is still vivid (they still do), and I wonder what kind of training they have to go through to be able to do so.” Fill in the twin blanks.

On the left is a picture of the _________ insect. On the right is a picture of a Native American collecting _________ insects off a cactus. Fill in the blanks, and why is the Native American collecting the insects?

Cochineal insects, the first food colouring used by man.

X began its long association with sports in 1927, through advertising on the southern wall of minor league baseball's Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the contract, X sponsored the radio broadcasts of the minor league baseball team, Minneapolis Millers, on radio station WCCO. This practice soon spread throughout the country, and in the 1930s touched the early career of Y, who was at the time a sports broadcast announcer in Des Moines, Iowa. He was asked to create play-by-play recreations of Chicago Cubs baseball games using transcribed telegraph reports; his job performance in this role led to his selection in 1937 as the most popular X announcer in the nation. He was awarded an all-expenses paid trip to the Cubs' spring training camp in California, and while there he took a Warner Bros. screen test. This led to his eventual film career. Hence, X can be blamed for inflicting Y on America, and indeed on the world. ID X and Y.

X – Wheaties Y – Ronald Reagan

Belgium - Pif! Paf! Pof! Canada's province of Quebec - Cric! Crac! Croc! Denmark - Pif! Paf! Puf! Finland - Poks! Riks! Raks! Holland - Pif! Paf! Pof! Italy - Pif! Paf! Pof! Mexico - Pim! Pum! Pam! Norway - Piff! Paff! Puff! Sweden - Piff! Paff! Puff! Switzerland - Piff! Paff! Poff! What is the slogan in the English-speaking world?

By definition, a spice is a vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavour, colour, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth. Furthermore, spices can be sorted into seven groups: Dried fruits or seeds, such as fennel, mustard, and black pepper. Arils, such as mace. Barks, such as cinnamon and cassia. Dried buds, such as cloves. Stigmas, such as saffron. Roots and rhizomes, such as turmeric, ginger and galingale. What is the seventh group, and what is its most famous example?

Fruits used for _____ ______ include cherries, raisins, and pineapple, often augmented with nuts. In the Netherlands, _____ ______ is a compote of dried fruits, served as a dessert or a side dish to a meat course. In Belgium, _____ ______ is often seen as a dessert. Typically, it contains a combination of raisins, currants, apricots, prunes, dates, and figs. The dish is quite popular in Belgium; even _____ ______ flavored condoms are available. In the United States, _____ ______ can also refer to fruits soaked in brandy or other spirits, or even to fruit fermented in a liquid containing sugar and yeast. Fill in the blanks.

On the left is a book, released in 2000. On the right is the TV adaptation of the book. Name the book and author.

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain.

________ is the name for a family of mixed drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer. The original (and still most common) ________ is the whiskey and soda. The Online Etymology Dictionary suggests that the name originated around 1898 and probably refers to the size of the glass in which it is served, or it may have come from the railroad signal meaning "clear track ahead." Well-known examples of _________ include Jack and Coke, Cuba Libre, Scotch and Soda, Seven and Seven, the Moscow Mule, the gin and tonic, and Sex on the Beach. Fill in the blanks.

Mars Inc. brands – Minstrels, Galaxy, Dove, Sheba.

Other ________ creations, famous in their time but largely forgotten today, were bombe Néro (a flaming ice), fraises à la Sarah Bernhardt (strawberries with pineapple and Curaçao sorbet), baisers de Vierge (meringue with vanilla cream and crystallised white rose and violet petals) and suprêmes de volailles Jeannette (jellied chicken breasts with foie gras). Of all ________’s creations, only two survive (in the sense of being common items on menus around the world). Fill in the blanks, and name the creations.

Escoffier, who created the Peach Melba and the Melba toast.

X was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Draps. Draps opened his first boutique in the Grand Place in Brussels under its present name, in honor of an Anglo-Saxon legend. The first X shop outside Belgium was opened in Paris in 1958. In 1966, the company's products reached the United States, where it was sold at luxury department stores. The following year, it was purchased by Y, a major American food company. In 1972, the first X boutique in North America was opened on New York's Fifth Avenue. By 2007 X had annual sales of approximately $500 million. In August of that year, Y announced it was "exploring strategic alternatives, including possible divestiture, for its X business"; the company said the "premium luxury goods business does not fit with Y's long-standing and well-known strategic focus on simple meals". ID X and Y.

X – Godiva Y – Campbell’s Soups

Two fast-food mascots meeting for the first time, in a 2007 commercial. ID both.

Krusty the Klown, The Burger King.

Clifford Woolf, the Richard J. Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School, has suggested using _________ to deter abuse of certain extended-release drugs such as OxyContin and Ritalin. When taken as prescribed, opioid prescription drugs such as OxyContin or stimulant drugs such as Adderall XR release their active chemical over time, but when crushed and snorted, taken as a suppository, chewed, or injected, the larger than normal dosage is absorbed all at once and a much stronger effect is produced that can be highly habit forming and dangerous due to the higher risk of overdose. Woolf has argued that adding _________ into the capsules would be a safe way to deter abuse. A person taking the capsule in the prescribed way ( i.e., swallowing it whole) would suffer no ill effects from the additive. However, a person crushing it and then chewing it, snorting it, or injecting it would be exposed to the full power of the chemical. As of 2006, Woolf's proposal is still in the preliminary stages of development and the additive has not yet entered the production stage. Fill in the blanks.

_______ is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest. While all meat animals have a _______, the term is most often used to describe beef and sometimes veal. This cut is tougher than almost all of the other eight prime cuts, and hence the word _______ came to mean any tough red meat, particularly during and after the Great Depression, when desperate butchers passed off horse meat as _______ to customers. To this day, horse meat (now a delicacy in some parts of the world) is known as _______ in English. Fill in the blank.

The _____ tree is a species of flowering evergreen shrub or tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Mediterranean region. It is cultivated for its edible seed pods. ______ are also known as St. John's Bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness. These days, it is used as animal feed and, increasingly, a substitute for cocoa. However, most of us have heard of these seeds in a strictly non-edible context. Identify.

The portmanteau word ________ has entered the English language and is used to describe any food or product that tastes or smells of ______ and ______. The recipe for this dessert was published in The Deeper Secrets of the Hungry Monk in 1974 (now out of print), and reprinted in the Hungry Monk's later cookbook In Heaven with the Hungry Monk (1997). Ian Dowding, the inventor and owner of The Hungry Monk Restaurant, has since put his original recipe online because he is "pedantic about the correct version", and stated that his "pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream in aerosols". The recipe for the dish is often printed on the tins of Nestle's condensed milk, giving no acknowledgement as to where the recipe came from. It is a popular dessert on the backpacker trail in India, thought to possibly have arrived as early as 1978 or 1979 with the overland travel of the hippie trail bringing young westerners to the region, who shared their favourite comfort food recipes with the local restaurateurs who catered to them. It is a fixture in most budget and tourist towns from McLeod Ganj in Himachal Pradesh to the resorts of Goa. Identify.

The _________ is also known as the husk tomato, jamberry, husk cherry, Mexican tomato, or ground cherry, although these names can also refer to other species in the Physalis genus. In Spanish it is called tomate de cáscara, tomate de fresadilla, tomate milpero, tomate verde ("green tomato"), miltomate (Mexico, Guatemala), or simply tomate (in which case the actual tomato is called jitomate). Even though __________ are sometimes called "green tomatoes", they should not be confused with green, unripe tomatoes (tomatoes are in the same family, but a different genus). In Assam, where it is quite popular, the local word for it is pokmou. What?

With the notoriety enjoyed by the deep-fried Mars Bar in most of the English-speaking world, cooks at fairs, exhibitions, etc. have come up with other foods which supposedly taste better deep-fried. ID all three shown here.

Deep-fried Coke, Deep-fried pizza, Deep-fried Twinkie.

Despite its name, the ____1____ ____2____has no relation to ____1____, and it is not a type of ____2____.The origin of the name is uncertain. Italian settlers in the USA called the plant Girasole, the Italian word for sunflower because of its resemblance to the garden sunflower. Over time the name Girasole may have been corrupted to ____1____. To avoid confusion some people have recently started to refer to it as sunroot. The ____2____part of this vegetable’s name comes from the taste of its edible tuber. Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer, sent the first samples of the plant to France, noting that its taste was similar to that of the ____2____. Fill in the blanks.

_______ consist of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta cheese. They range in size from no bigger than a finger, to the fist-sized proportions typically found in Palermo, Sicily. They are Italy’s most popular non-frozen dessert, and their popularity is reflected in the fact that they are mentioned in one of the more memorable quotes in movie history. Identify.

As food and drink nomenclature goes, strictly speaking, the proper name for the drink made by boiling and straining herbal tea leaves is not herbal tea itself, but ______. This word, originating from the Greek for pearl barley (which was the main ingredient of the first herbal teas), is used to differentiate between herbal teas which contain actual tea leaves (Camellia sinensis) and those which do not. Fill in the blank.

The Electro-Freeze machine you see here was used almost exclusively for most of the 20 th century to make a dessert consisting of eggs, cream and sugar with air is blended into the mixture of ingredients until its volume increases by approximately 20%. This resulted in a richer, smoother taste and softer consistency when compared to traditional ice-cream and, since it was most often served at –8°C , warmer than the –12°C at which ice cream is served, the warmer temperature allowed the taste buds to detect more flavour. Sadly, most Electro-Freeze machines are no longer in use, and this dessert is dying out in all but a few towns on the eastern seaboard of America. Identify.

Grilled sandwiches – Reuben, Monte Cristo, Club and Elvis.

This type of beer glass, first made as a test to determine whether a glassblower had mastered his craft, is now used in drinking games throughout the world, with the world record for consuming a full glass being five seconds. Incidentally, former Australian PM Bob Hawke holds the Australian record of eight seconds. What is this type of glass known as?

Ajaz Hussain Saheb, a familiar face to you if you frequent certain parts of this city, founded an enterprise in ca. 1974 to share his family recipes with the world, using the tagline “Where Heaven Falls In Belly”. This enterprise has since grown from strength to strength. Name it.

The website of this restaurant franchise invites customers to “Visit a location near you!”, listing franchises in: Cicely, Alaska Castle Rock, Maine Hooterville, Illinois Lake Wobegon, Minnesota Peyton Place, New Hampshire Mayberry, North Carolina Mayors Income, Tennessee Twin Peaks, Washington Which franchise?

This dessert is also popular in Portugal, Mozambique and the Philippines, the latter country having replaced the wheat flour of the original dessert with rice flour, although the baking process remains similar. Another difference in the Filipino version is that before it is served, butter or margarine is spread and sugar is sprinkled over the dessert. It is typically served with grated coconut. This dish is very popular among Filipinos during the 9-day Simbang Gabi novena masses before Christmas, and is seen as something of a seasonal treat, akin to the Christmas puddings of England. Identify.

If, clockwise from top left, what you see here are the second-, third- and fourth-most popular, what is the most popular?

Olives, the most popular Martini garnish.

In 1969, when Hunt Foods Inc. wanted a catchy name for their new Sloppy Joe sauce, their ad agency came up with a portmanteau word that has since entered the English language and is now taken to mean any particularly masculine meal. What name?

The “___1___ ___2___" was the collective name given to the string of performance venues throughout the eastern and southern United States that were safe and acceptable for African American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers to perform during the age of racial segregation in the United States (from at least the late 1800s through the 1960s). The name derives from the soul food item ___1___ (stewed or fried pig intestines, a popular dish at these venues) and is also a play on the term “___3___ __4__" which referred to a group of venues (primarily in New York's Catskill Mountains) popular with Jewish performers during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Fill in both sets of blanks.

Chitlin’ Circuit Borscht Belt.

ID the group in this 1997 Got Milk? ad.

A __________ broiler, sometimes simply referred to as a “__________", is a culinary utensil characterized by very high temperature overhead infrared heating elements which may be powered by either electricity or gas. It is used primarily in professional kitchens for overhead grilling or broiling. It is also used for toasting, as well as browning of gratin dishes, melting cheeses onto sandwiches, and desserts such as Crème brûlée. Overhead heat has the advantage of allowing foods containing fats, such as steaks, chops and other cuts of meat, to be grilled without the risk of flare-ups caused by the rendered fat dripping into the heat source. The __________'s facility for extremely high temperature also takes less cooking time than other grilling techniques, reducing preparation times which is a benefit in professional kitchens during a busy meal service. __________ grills are generally similar to an oven without a front door, with the heating elements at the top. They are more compact: typically only half the height and depth of a conventional oven. They are often wall mounted at eye level enabling easy access and close control of the cooking process. Many __________ grills can be fitted with a cast iron "branding" plate which are used to make grill marks on the surface of meat. Some grills can also be fitted with a rotisserie accessory for roasting meats. Modern electric or gas ___________ take their name from the earlier __________, an iron disk on a handle which is heated and placed over a dish to brown it.

There is some debate regarding this dessert’s origin, as there is no documented mention of it before 1983. In 1998, Fernando and Tina Raris similarly claimed that the dessert is a recent invention. They point out that while the recipes and histories of other layered desserts are very similar, the first documented mention of this in a published work appears in a Greek cookbook, which seems to be at odds with its decidedly non-Greek name. Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary gives 1982 as the year of origin. The original recipe called for the following ingredients: savoiardi biscuits, eggs, sugar, mascarpone, cocoa powder, honey, and club soda. The original recipe was aimed at children and the elderly, and the original shape was round. These days, with the addition of a stimulant and a depressant to the recipe, this dessert has spread worldwide. Identify.

Caffeine (espresso) and alcohol (Madeira wine or coffee liqueur) were added to the recipe for Tiramisu.

AZED Ten variables, each worth a point. Bonus of 5 points for getting all variables.

Among the many salutary quotes attributed to A: “ The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.” A so hated coffee, in fact, that he asked a friend of his, B, to come up with an alternative while B was staying at C, the institute founded by A. B did so, and D (named after B) hit the markets in 1887. D proved so popular during the coffee-rationing of World War II that shortages were reported throughout America. D remained popular with many people in the country, particularly in the E community, for whom coffee is forbidden. D is also the preferred morning beverage of F, who placed second in Forbes Magazine’s list of richest fictional billionaires three years in a row (topped only by Santa Claus). It is strange that A sought B’s help to create D, since A was an accomplished inventor himself. His most famous invention G is now on sale in nearly all the countries of the world. He also added a coating of sugar to G and created H, another immensely popular product. H and its mascot I proved so popular, in fact, that I appeared in a series of Hanna-Barbera cartoon shorts with Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss. It is also ironic that B’s company (which he named after himself but was later renamed J, starting something of a naming trend) later became a direct rival to A’s, even challenging A’s company to the rights to the G patent.

A – John Harvey Kellogg B – C. W. Post C – the Battle Creek Sanitarium D – Postum E – Mormons F – C. Montgomery Burns G – Kellogg’s Corn Flakes H – Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes I – Tony the Tiger J – General Foods

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