Another brand new quiz!
“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally’s cellar.”
Thomas Jefferson
1) What animal’s nose and what other animal’s tail were eaten and even considered delicacies by American Colonists?
2) What well known frozen food was named after a bar in Medford, Wisconsin.
3) Baking soda is used in baking. However, about 50% of the baking soda sold in the U.S. is not used in baking.
What is it used for?
4) What foods are obtained from members of the Lily and Orchid families?
5) Pickle makers have done lots of research on pickles.
Do you know how many ‘warts’ per square inch are preferred by the average American?
By the average European?
Bonus question – A pickles crunch should be audible from how many paces?
6) What are the 8 vegetable juices in V-8 Juice?
7) Why was sliced bread banned in the U.S. on January 18, 1943 during World War II?
8) a) What is the largest drive-in restaurant chain?
b) What restaurant chain was originally named “Danny’s Donuts”?
9) In 1876 B&M baked beans were the first baked beans to be sold in cans. What does the B&M stand for and what was the specific reason this company canned baked beans?
10) a) When and where was milk first sold in bottles?
b) When and where was beer first sold in bottles?
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ANSWERS
1) The moose’s nose and the beaver’s tail.
2) The Tombstone Tap was so named because it was located across the street from a cemetery. The owners, Ron Simek and his brother began selling frozen pizza in the bar. They became popular, and the brothers went into the frozen pizza business – They named their product Tombstone Pizza.
3) About 1/2 of the baking soda sold in the U.S. is used for indigestion in cattle. Most cattle are fattened up in feedlots on corn, hay, and supplements before being slaughtered. They can eat up to 25 pounds of grain a day. Their stomachs were designed to digest grass, not grain, so they tend to get indigestion. Feedlots give the cattle baking soda to ease the problem.
4) Asparagus is a member of the Lily family and vanilla is obtained from a member of the Orchid family.
5) The average American prefers 7 warts per square inch – Europeans prefer pickles with no warts.
A pickles crunch should be audible from 10 paces away.
6) V-8 juice is composed of tomato, spinach, celery, carrot, beet, lettuce, watercress and parsley juice.
7) Sliced bread went stale faster, and therefor Americans used more wheat, needed to feed soldiers. Bread slicing machines also needed metal parts for repairs – metal that was needed for manufacturing ships, tanks, guns etc.
8) a) Sonic Drive-In is the largest drive-in restaurant chain.
b) ‘Denny’s’ restaurants stared out as ‘Danny’s Donuts’ in 1953, then ‘Danny’s Coffee Shops’ and finally in 1959 was renamed ‘Denny’s’.
9) Burnham & Morill Company canned baked beans for use by the fishermen who worked their fishing fleet out of Portland, Maine.
10) a) Milk was first sold in bottles in 1879 when Echo Farms Dairy began to deliver them in Brooklyn, New York.
b) Beer was first sold in bottles in 1869 by English brewer Francis Manning-Needham.
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