FOOD

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  1. 3. Which Middle Eastern meal features a variety of cooked meats and maybe some veggies on a skewer?
  2. 7. Which Pepsi-owned soda that you wanna “do” was invented in the 1940s by bottling brothers Barney and Ally Hartman who wanted a better mixer for whiskey?
  3. 8. Four chefs prepare a three-course meal using unlikely ingredients from a mystery basket, with one chef eliminated after each course, in what Food Network reality show?
  4. 12. Commonly eaten in Spain and Portugal and known for being served cold, gazpacho, which is made with raw, blended vegetables, is a type of what dish?
  5. 13. Born a Border Collie mixed breed, what was the name of Jimmy Carter’s presidential pooch who shared its name with a cornmeal-based breakfast food colloquially called “hominy” in the southern United States?
  6. 15. Kombu, Wakame, and Hijiki are all edible types of what plant, which is also known as macroalgae or nori on a sushi menu?
  7. 18. Every summer, thousands of people come to Rockland for the annual crustacean celebration of which of Maine’s prized seafood exports?
  8. 21. According to the National Gardening Association, far and away the most common food grown in home gardens is what Caprese salad ingredient?
  9. 22. Lactobacillus delbrueckii and Streptococcus thermophilus are the two most common bacteria used for creating what grocery store staple which skyrocketed in popularity in the 2000s in the U.S.?
  10. 24. The Delaware-based company RAPA is considered the largest manufacturer of what food mush that is traditionally a combination of pork scraps, cornmeal, wheat flour, and spices?
  11. 25. Which Paula Deen-approved food that's made using the fat and protein of churned cream is sold as long, skinny sticks on the East Coast, but as short, fat sticks on the West Coast?
  12. 26. What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
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  1. 1. The simple Italian salad known as a Caprese salad typically includes tomatoes, basil, and what variety of cheese?
  2. 2. Indian Handia, Mexican Horchata, and Korean Makgeolli are drinks made from what grain that features in all three countries' cuisines?
  3. 4. Horseradish was the first commercially packaged and sold foodstuff by what Pittsburgh-based company?
  4. 5. The "Cutie" brand of produce primarily focuses on what miniature cousin of the orange?
  5. 6. What chocolate-flavored coffee drink gets its name from a city in Yemen that was once a center of the coffee trade?
  6. 9. Toy included! What cheerful English word does McDonald’s use to describe its meal meant for kids?
  7. 10. The 2004 documentary "Super Size Me" chronicled the decline in health of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as he spent 30 days eating food exclusively from which fast food chain?
  8. 11. Which shrimp dish sounds like a drink you’d order at a bar, but really just refers to the way the prawns are draped over a glass of sauce?
  9. 14. For Cyber Monday in the US in 2019, Google "baked" Pixel 4 phones inside the pizza boxes of what fast food chain as a limited promotion?
  10. 15. In 1937 Ken Digneau won $100 for naming what food product? It is generally believed the name comes from the words “spiced ham”, but this has never been confirmed by Hormel Foods who make the product.
  11. 16. A company called Mycorrhiza Biotech's products include pine seedlings inoculated with the bianchetto variety of what fungus that is highly valuable to chefs?
  12. 17. Any Beef 'n Cheddar fans out there? What fast food chain that uses a cowboy hat as a logo pays Ving Rhames to remind you that they “have the meats?”
  13. 19. What colorful and spherical cereal is known for denying their mascot the pleasure of eating it? Three of its current flavors are lemony lemon, orangey orange, and grapity purple. Silly names.
  14. 20. A subsidiary of Nestle, what frozen pizza brand has a name that means "of the day" in Italian?
  15. 21. Alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in a coffee-liqueur combo with mascarpone cheese and chocolate gets you what uplifting Italian dessert?
  16. 23. Although back, collar, and jowl all exist as cuts of this cured meat, the most popular is "streaky" which comes from the pork belly and is often served as a side dish during breakfast. What is this type of salt-cured pork with a name derived from the Old High German word for buttock?