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Top 10 Trivia for Foodies
What are the most unusual restaurants? What fruits have seeds on the outside? How much maple syrup do you get from a sugar maple?
10. What are the only fruit with seeds on the outside rather than inside? Give up? Strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries.
9. In 1922, a Nebraska man launched Fruit Smack, which was a flavored syrup. Today it has evolved into…Kool-Aid.
8. An anonymous St Louis doctor in 1890 ground up peanuts to create a healthy and easily digested food for his elderly patients. Thus peanut butter was born.
7. Poi is a traditional Hawaiian delicacy which is basically a puree of fermented taro root differs from island to island. Each variety can differ in color and charcater depending on where it comes from.
6. Manufacturers often use dyes in product packaging that will change color as time goes by. This lets store owners know what’s moving and what’s been on the shelves a long time.
5. Olive oil is consumed the most in two countries where heart disease is the lowest…Crete and Greece.
4. Chocolate has caffeine. About 5 milligrams per ounce, compared to 100 miloligrams for a cup of coffee and 35 for a cup of tea. Incidentally, to examine the amount of caffeine in your favorite food or beverage, go to the Death by Caffeine website at http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine .
3. It takes four mature sugar maple trees producing over a full winter 40 gallons of sap which can be reduced to a gallon of finished pure maple syrup.
2. Those rainbow trout from the store weren’t snagged from Columbia River rapids. Nearly all rainbow trout that make it to American dinner tables come from fish farms. Most of them in spud country, Idaho.
1. Most unusual restaurants: A waterfall, cliff divers, Western shootouts, and caves surround diners at Casa Bonita in Lakwood, Colorado; there’s a spy theme in Milwaukee’s Safe House; be prepared for a Martian colony theme at Mars 2112 in New York; insects are on the menu at Santa Monica’s Typhoon; and a six-course banquet is served without silverware at Boston’s Medieval Manor. (Turn-over being what it is, some of these may no longer be around.)
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