I think most of us consider ourselves “foodies”. People ridicule me at times because I claim foodiness but for them I haven’t got the experience with the more “la-de-dah” types of foods. It’s also their kind way of putting me in my place. They still don’t seem to realize it just gives me more interesting ammunition when writing this blog. Todays post will be ten trivia questions about food that are a little more difficult than usual. I’ll be challenging my foodie critics to score more than five correct answers. The real answers will be listed below. I hope you have fun with it and I also hope those snobby critics don’t.

• What novelty salt shakers did publishing czar William Randolph Hearst have on the refectory table in the dining room of his San Simeon estate?

• How many different animal shapes are there in the “Animal Crackers” cookie zoo?

• Who said “Never eat more than you can lift”?

• Who first developed frozen food?

• In what country was the beverage we know as punch originate?

• Drupes are a regular part of the American diet. What are they?

• What was the name of the breakfast cereal Cheerios when it was first marketed 50 years ago?

• What popular fruit was named after a papal estate outside Rome?

• What was the first coffee sold in sealed tin cans in the United States?

• What popular lunch and snack food did a St. Louis doctor develop in 1890 for patients requiring an easily digested form of protein?

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BONUS QUESTION

What food product was discovered because of a long camel ride?

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Answers

Mickey & Minnie Mouse shakers, Eighteen, Miss Piggy, Clarence Birdseye in 1930, India, Succulent usually single-pitted fruit (plums, apricots, peaches almonds, and olives etc.), Cheerioats (the name was changed because of complaints from the Quaker Oats Co.), Cantaloupe (named after the popes summer residence), Chase & Sanborn 1879, Peanut Buter – Patented by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, BONUS – Cottage Cheese – The milk in a hot goatskin bag turned white and tasty.