Brand new quiz…not a repeat!
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Virginia Woolf, English novelist (1882-1941).
1) The following events all took place in the same year.
Can you guess what year?
* U.S. Microwave oven sales reach a record 12.6 million.
* The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) bans most uses of sulfites in fresh foods.
* Snapple bottled iced tea is introduced creating a new category of soft drinks.
* Dairy Queen acquires Orange Julius.
* Howard Schultz buys Starbucks, a Seattle coffee bean business, and begins building an empire of coffee bars.
* Charlie Trotter opens his restaurant in Chicago, ‘Charlie Trotter’s’
* Campbell’s introduces Campbell’s Cup dry soups.
* Brazilian landowners create new ranch land by burning 80,000 square miles of Amazon rain forest in 79 days.
2) This fruit, Persea americana, is a member of the Laurel family which includes the bay laurel and cinnamon tree. It is said to be the world’s most nutritious fruit. It is low in sugar, high in vitamins B6, C and E, its fats are monounsaturated, and it contains 60% more potassium per ounce than bananas. It is particularly good as a first solid food for babies.
Name this fruit.
3) This highly seasoned, smoked sausage is studded with cubes of pork fat, peppercorns, pistachios and/or green olives. It probably dates back to the 15th century and the original recipes included myrtle, from which it name derives.
Name this sausage. (Hint: it is Italian).
4) What do these plants all have in common:
Asparagus, Onions, Garlic, Sarsaparilla, Yams, Yucca, Daffodils, Aloe, Tulips and Hyacinths?
5) Over 1 billion pounds of this food is consumed in the U.S. each year, 80% of it is eaten in restaurants and 90% of it is imported from Asia and Central America.
Name this popular restaurant food.
6) A research firm polled 1,000 U.S. adults about what they did with this food. Here are the results:
38% said they gave it away,
28% actually ate it,
13% used it as a doorstop,
9% scattered it for the birds,
4% threw it out,
and 8% couldn’t remember.
Name this food.
7) Tokyo has 160,000 of these. New York has 23,000 and Paris has 20,000.
What are they?
8) Here are the ingredients: Tomato, Spinach, Celery, Carrot, Beet, Lettuce, Watercress and Parlsey.
What is the product?
9) This is the oldest cheese of its type and the oldest named cheese in Britain. There are 3 varieties: white, ‘red’ and blue veined.
Name this cheese.
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ANSWERS
1) All of the events took place in 1987.
2) The Avocado.
3) Mortadella. (Myrtle is ‘mortella’ in Italian).
4) They are all members of the Lily family.
5) Shrimp.
6) Fruitcake.
7) Restaurants.
8) They are the 8 juices in V-8 Juice.
9) Cheshire Cheese is the oldest cheddar type cheese. The red variety (actually yellow in color) is dyed with annatto. The blue-veined variety was originally considered undesirable when it occurred accidentally.