A very short food and drinks quiz.

2. 1. Following are a few of the many
twitter reactions to what?

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5. Answer

6. 2. Made of fruit juices, liqueurs and various
rums, this cocktail was invented in the
1930s by Donn Beach of Hollywood’s Don
the Beachcomber restaurant.
Legend has it that Donn Beach originally
concocted the drink to help a hung-over
customer get through a business meeting.
He returned several days later to complain
that he had been turned into a ______ for his
entire trip.
The restaurant limits it customers to two
drinks apiece. Name the drink. (pic in next
slide)

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9. Answer

10. 3. Gagh is a delicacy made with fresh serpent worms that are
served alive and squirming. It is the act of killing the worms in
the mouth and savouring their blood that is vital to the dish, as
the war-like race appreciates the way the worms put up a good
fight. Eaten whole, the worms are deadly. This dish is native to
which race?

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13. 4. Created by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis, Stay
Puft Marshmallow Man is a large white humanoid
figure made of conjoined marshmallows appearing
in a particular franchise. He wears a white sailor
hat with a red ribbon attached on top, and a
blue hatband. Around his neck is a blue traditional
sailor's collar and a red neckerchief.
After images of him are seen on a billboard and a
bag of marshmallows earlier in the film, he is then
seen in the climax of the film as one of two
physical bodies of Gozer, a god who is defeated
when Stay Puft is destroyed. His exact to-scale
height in the movie is 112.5 feet tall.
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is one of the most
recognizable emblems of which movie franchise?

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15. Answer
Ghostbusters

16. 5. In the early 1990s Robert Frost had penned the
following poem:
“The rose is a rose and was always a rose. But the
theory now goes that the _____'s a rose, and the pear
is, and so's the plum, I suppose. The dear [Lord] only
knows what will next prove a rose. You, of course,
are a rose - but were always a rose."
This was in response to a recent discovery that the
_____ is actually a member of the rose family. FITB.

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18. Answer
Apple

19. 6. ________ that is artificially coloured or clear is
aesthetically stable, and can be bottled in clear
glass. If naturally coloured ________ is exposed to
light or air for a prolonged period,
the chlorophyll gradually becomes oxidised, which
has the effect of gradually changing the colour
from green to yellow green, and eventually to
brown. The colour of ________ that has completed
this transition was historically referred to
as feuille morte (dead leaf). In the preban era, this
natural phenomenon was favourably viewed, for it
confirmed the product in question was coloured
naturally, and not artificially with potentially toxic
chemicals.
Which consumable, referred to in historical
literature as “la fee verte”, are we talking about?

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21. Answer
Absinthe
(la fee verte = The Green Fairy)

22. 7. Beaver butts secrete a goo called
castoreum, which the animals use to mark
their territory. The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration lists castoreum as a
“generally regarded as safe” additive, and
manufacturers have been using it extensively
in perfumes and foods for at least 80 years,
according to a 2007 study in the International
Journal of Toxicology.
Due to its musky smell characteristic of
something else, castoreum is mainly used as
a substitute for what in baked goods and
candies?

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24. Answer

25. 8. Carne de _____ _______ is a Portuguese dish whose
name means "meat with wine and garlic", the meat
usually being pork or rabbit. It is traditionally served
at Christmas time in Madeira.
In India, this Portuguese dish was modified by the
substitution of vinegar (usually palm vinegar) for the
red wine and the addition of red Kashmiri chillies
with additional spices to evolve into X (pic in next
slide), popular in a particular region of India. X is
known globally in its Anglo-Indian form as a staple
of curry house menus, often regarded as a fiery spicy
dish.
X?

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28. Answer
Vindaloo

29. 9. X (French for "fat liver“) is a food product made of
the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially
fattened. By French law, X is defined as the liver of a
duck or goose fattened by force-feeding corn with
a gavage. What is X?

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Thai Green Curry

31. Answer
Foie gras

32. 10. Gruel (pic in next slide) is a type of food
consisting of some type of cereal—
oat, wheat or rye flour, or rice—boiled in water
or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be
more often drunk than eaten and may not need to be
cooked. Historically, gruel—often made
from millet, hemp or barley, or, in hard times,
from chestnut flour or even the less tannic acorns of
some oaks—has been a staple of the Western diet,
especially for peasants.
What is the significance of gruel in literature?

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35. Answer

36. 11. Urban Dictionary definition of the X syndrome:
A condition that occurs when a smoker leaves a
cigarette behind his/her ear for an extended period of
time. Upon removing the cigarette, the smoker is left
with the feeling that the cigarette is still there. Often
the smoker will finish their cigarette and reach for
the one behind their ear, only to realize that they just
smoked it.
X is also the name of something that could ignite
nostalgia in many of us. X?

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Malpuwa Pitha

38. Answer

39. 12. In the next slide is a prize-winning recipe of a
fictional drink that was once served at Starbucks.
Which drink?

40. 2 litre cream soda
2 tablespoons Butter extract
2 teaspoons rum extract
*drop the extracts into the 2 litre bottle, put on cap
and slowly rotate until combined.
Cream topping
1 7oz container of marshmallow creme
1 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon rum extract
*add all items together in an electric mixer and
combine until smooth.
Pour the ...X... into a glass, drizzle with the cream
topping, and enjoy!

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42. Answer
Butterbeer