Food Trivia Questions With Answers
What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose
as a substitute for meat in school lunches, in 1996?
A: Yogurt.
What breakfast cereal was Sonny the Cuckoo Bird "cuckoo
for"?
A: Cocoa Puffs.
Why was the Animal Crackers box designed with a string handle?
A: The animal shaped cookie treats were introduced in 1902 as a
Christmas novelty, and packaged so they would be hung from the
Christmas trees.
On what vegetable did an ancient
Egyptian place his right hand when
taking an oath?
A: The onion. Its round shape symbolized eternity.
How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo
cookie?
A: Twelve. Each as four petals.
Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they?
A: Beans
What European nation consumes more spicy
Mexican food than any
other?
A: Norway.
What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
A: No part. Banana oil, a synthetic compound made with amyl alcohol,
is named for its banana-like aroma.
Under what name did the Domino's
Pizza chain get its start?
A: DomNick's
What was margarine called when it was first marketed in England?
A: Butterine
What are the two top selling spices in the world?
A: Pepper is 1st and
mustard is second.
What was the name of Cheerios when it was first marketed 50 years
ago?
A: Cheerioats
What flavor of
ice cream did Baskin-Robbins introduce to
commemorate America's landing on the
moon on July 20,
1969?
A: Lunar Cheesecake
What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
A: The Herring
What is the name of the evergreen shrub from which we get capers?
A: The caper bush.
What fruits were crossed to produce the nectarine?
A: None. The nectarine is a smooth skinned variety of the peach.
What animals milk is used to make authentic
Italian mozzarella
cheese?
A: The water buffalo's.
What nation produces two thirds of the world's vanilla?
A: Madagascar.
Why did candy maker Milton S. Hershey switch from making caramels
to chocolate bars in 1903?
A: Caramels didn't retain the imprint of his name in summertime,
chocolate did.
What was the drink we know as the Bloody Mary originally called?
A: The Red Snapper, which was its name when it crossed the Atlantic
from Harry's New York
Bar in
Paris.
What was the first commercially manufactured
breakfast cereal?
A: Shredded Wheat.
When Birdseye introduced the first frozen
food in
1930, what did
the company call it?
A: Frosted Food. Company officials
feared the word
frozen would
suggest flesh burns. The name was changed to frozen soon after.
What American city produces most of the
egg rolls sold in grocery
stores in the United States?
A: Houston, Texas.
What was the first of H.J. Heinz' "57 varieties"?
A: Horseradish, marketed in 1869
What is the literal meaning of the Italian word
linguine?
A: Little tongues.
Where did the pineapple plant originate?
A: In South America. It didn't reach
Hawaii until the early nineteenth
century.
What recipe, first published 50 years ago, has been requested most
frequently through the years by the readers of "Better
Homes and Garden"?
A: The recipe for hamburger pie, which has been updated and
republished a number of
times over the years.
What is the only essential
vitamin not found in the white
potato?
A: Vitamin A