Are you a “foodie”? Everyone I ask gives me the same answer. YES! Being a “foodie” means much more than just eating three squares meals a day. It refers to someone who is obsessed with food, it’s preparation, it’s presentation, and of course the flavor. I think I just inadvertently booted myself from the “foodie” ranks because I’m no longer concerned with all of that. Years ago when I was into cooking, canning, and wine-making, I was most certainly a “foodie”. Now that I’m fully into being retired the term doesn’t apply to me any longer. Todays post will be a short quiz for those of you who still identify yourselves as “foodies”. As always the answers will be listed below.

• Italy leads the world in pasta consumption with 61.7 pounds each per person per year. What country is second?

• Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they?

• Where was the first automated fortune cookie machine manufactured?

• What does VVSOP mean on a cognac bottle?

• What color did blue replace in 1995 when it was introduced to the standard package of M&M’s candies?

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• On average, how many calories a day are American astronauts given to eat while on missions to outer space?

• What do herring, cabbage and carrots represent at New Years Eve feasts in Germany and Scandinavia?

• How much caffeine must be removed from coffee for it to be called decaffeinated?

• What popular soft drink contained the drug lithium, now available only by prescription, when it was introduced in 1929?

• What did the Wrigley Company do to promote its chewing gum nationwide in 1914?

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BONUS

What is the cordial kumiss made from?

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Answers

Venezuela at 27.9, Beans, Japan, Very Very Superior Old Pale, Tan, 3000, Herring represents good luck; cabbage, plenty of silver; and carrots, gold in the year ahead, 97%, 7UP, It mailed a stick of Doublemint gum to every person listed in the U.S. phonebooks, BONUS: Fermented mare’s or cow’s milk.