Eat This Newsletter 226: Xmas Quiz
Hello
As promised last week, something a little different to round out the year.
A quiz, 18 questions, one for each episode. You can find some way to indicate your answers right here on the email and reply to me. Much easier, the whole thing is online as a Google form that is also available at the website.
You will need to give your email, so I can let you know if you have won, but that is all I will use it for.
There will be prizes, preferably something you want for yourself to the tune of about 25 euros, US dollars or pounds sterling. That’s abother reason I need an operational email.
You have until midnight GMT on 1 January 2024 to submit your entry. Go to it.
1. Nathan Straus, promotor of milk pasteurisation in the US, was also part owner of which department store?
a. Macy’s
b. Bloomingdale’s
c. Saks Fifth Avenue
2. To prevent hidden hunger, What could possibly be better than biofortification?
a. nothing
b. anything
c. a more diverse diet
3. What is the Mechelse Koekoek?
a. an artist
b. a chicken
c. a shepherd dog
4. According to a recent survey, what proportion of honey exported from the UK is adulterated?
a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 100%
5. Why hasn’t the UK seen actual food riots recently?
a. people aren’t actually starving, yet
b. authoritarian suppression
c. beats me
6. Which country packs roughly half the world’s shelf-stable tuna?
a. Cameroon
b. Thailand
c. USA
7. What is the secret ingredient of Mr Song’s string cheese?
a. crushed bamboo leaves
b. pu-erh tea
c. raw milk
8. What is Rouge de Bordeaux?
a. a wheat variety
b. an edible lipstick
a generic wine
9. Roughly how many subsidised flatbreads cost the same as a cigarette in Egypt?
a. 5
b. 10
c. 20
10. Roughly how many Jews were present when ancient Rome had a million inhabitants?
a. 1000
b. 5000
c. 10,000
11. What is the main selling point Cath Kinsella sees in her milk?
a. it is more delicious
b. it is less expensive
c. it is safer
12. How do exports of chicken feet to China help American chicken lovers?
a. fewer lame birds
b. lower prices
c. tastier meat
13. Patrik Johansson, the Butter Viking, has a special diet on the days when he makes butter. He consumes only?
a. butter
b. coffee
c. milk
14. What is the secret of a good, crispy, rice tahdig?
a. experience
b. the pot
c. luck
15. What kind of soup prompted Priya Mani’s quest for black stoneflower?
a. cauliflower
b. dal makhani
c. mulligatawney
16. In World War II, the UK government’s proposed Communal Feeding Centres were launched instead as British Restaurants. Who objected to the proposed name?
a. Lord Wootton
b. Dame Vera Lynn
c. Sir Winston Churchill
17. What did people make from teosinte that prompted its domestication?
a. alcoholic beverages
b. popcorn
c. it’s a mystery
18. Is ice-cream really good for you?
a. yes
b. no
c. it depends
You'll get your own score immediately if you use the online form, and I will send out an extra newsletter to everyone who participates with the overall results.
Take care
