Food Quiz
Last week a woman I work with who is my age (AARP eligible) showed me a label from a cake container and asked me to pronounce a word and tell her what it was. It was "ganache."
I explained ganache and went on to tell her about chocolate truffles.
The poor dear has been avoiding ganache her entire adult life because she thought it was the shiny fruit in fruitcake. Her daughter shared some of a ganache cake bought at WalMart, of all places, and Betsy didn't want to touch it until her daughter swore to God that there was no shiny fruit in it.
Just thought I'd pass along this little quiz that is in today's Chicago Tribune. The first question is about ganache.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/chi-food-words-quiz,0,3799092.triviaquiz
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32 Comments:
Shiny fruit.... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
arm1970 at 11:21AM on 07/14/09
I just took it and scored a 100 percent. The only two I really weren't sure about were sushi-related (and I don't eat sushi), but I guessed right. Thanks, SE - I learned a lot of this stuff because of you!
kimberlymac at 11:22AM on 07/14/09
I got three wrong and I belong to AARP ! lol
goodcooker at 11:24AM on 07/14/09
I only got three wrong, and they were all French-related, which make sense, since I rarely eat or cook French food, I suppose. :) But, I definitely learned something!
Fruitcake? Oh, dear. But that must happen a lot. In fact, when I was a server for an Italian restuarant we would get confused customers all the time and have to explain different ingredients. I will never forget the time when one guy ordered a Rose wine and thought that that meant "red" and was so upset at me for that mistake that he started to yell at me, because he swore that he was right! Poor guy.
Traveller at 11:27AM on 07/14/09
Well, I just took the quiz and I got one question wrong, the one about Cavolo Nero. I love quizes. Like way too much.
chisai at 11:27AM on 07/14/09
I got the Cavolo Nero one wrong too Chisai....BOO!!!! : )
arm1970 at 11:36AM on 07/14/09
Easy peasy. 100%. I might not have done so well if the choices for answers weren't repeated. I didn't know what Cavolo Nero was, either, but was able to deduce from the options given. And because I totally rock.
Kerosena at 11:36AM on 07/14/09
Only missed the fleur de sel question. Definitely had to guess on a few others, but it wasn't that hard given that they seemed to just recycle answer choices from one question to the next.
joyyy at 12:03PM on 07/14/09
100% Yay! I should have BF take it. He already complains that he now knows entirely more than he thinks he ought about food because of me. Heh.
Amandarama at 12:15PM on 07/14/09
One wrong.
bessfour at 12:22PM on 07/14/09
I'm AARP eligible too,and got one wrong. What the hell is "frisee"?...lmao
onepercent99 at 12:31PM on 07/14/09
25/25... and I'm only 15
foodieteen at 12:38PM on 07/14/09
100% Would've definitely gotten a few wrong if not for the repeat answers though (Cavalo Nero, geoduck, a couple others).
skizziks at 1:26PM on 07/14/09
96%! i'll take it!
_greenbean at 1:34PM on 07/14/09
i feel so stupid - i got 5 wrong. they were all the french guys too. i'm so ashamed!
mrstkach at 2:02PM on 07/14/09
I got them all right! Woo hoo! I just became AARP eligible this year and joined. I don't care where a discount originates, just so I get it.
And... Question #7 is... ME!
therealchiffonade at 2:39PM on 07/14/09
Yea, 100%!
I love foodie quizzes - can u post more?
finewinendine at 2:56PM on 07/14/09
100% :-) Helps a lot that I'm good with languages, though...and, as @Kerosena said, it helped that they repeated some answers, which made process of elimination much easier. Fun!
littlestcapy at 3:04PM on 07/14/09
96% - instant self-esteem booster. Thank you Chicago!
fdr1952 at 4:23PM on 07/14/09
I got 100% but that was really a poorly designed test.
RegrettableFoodie at 4:52PM on 07/14/09
I got 100% and agree that the matching format made answering a lot easier.
sarar at 5:51PM on 07/14/09
100% too.... and the 2 I did not know, I figured out at the end by process of elimination.
MadelynRodriguez at 6:11PM on 07/14/09
@kerosena, same here. powers of deduction.
blizcheetah at 11:54PM on 07/14/09
frisee. when you hear it, what does it sound like? to me, frizzy hair. to look thin, wild, and curly. http://www.radicchio.com/Collections/frisee-salads.html
blizcheetah at 11:58PM on 07/14/09
I'm 100% sure I could get 99% of the questions right 98% of the time.
Pavlov at 9:56AM on 07/15/09
100% score
Bakerloo Line at 10:00AM on 07/15/09
100% but I'm with Kerosena.... could've been much harder. :)
tatianak at 2:35PM on 07/15/09
@betteirene - cool post :D
hmm....i got three wrong (mixed them up)
oh wells, I'm sure if I took my time I might have been better.
*I'm embarassed next to you peeps!*
Hey SE: This was actually kinda fun! Feel like taking on a similar project?
hungrychristel at 1:17PM on 07/16/09
Are those that didn't get 100% just not posting their scores? Haha. I got 23/25...I'll admit it. I got geoduck and tostones wrong....oops. This was fun though - thanks! It's great for weekly Food Vocab bit on Chew on That as well. Post any words you had a hard time with!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 4:05PM on 07/16/09
I missed two, carpaccio and roulade. Oh well. :)
Skythe at 4:50PM on 07/16/09
I'm late responding, but I got 100%. I admit to guessing on about 2 of them, but the rest I breezed through. I'm kind of proud of myself.
meem21 at 5:04PM on 08/05/09
I got 100 percent ... and I don't eat most of the things on the list. I did go back and change a few answers, though. It would have been harder if the answers didn't repeat themselves.
KarynMC at 5:20PM on 08/05/09