The $25,000 Food Question

[adroit_minx]

The show "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" calls you... they want a food question for the $25,000 level, but their combined brain trust can't come up with anything good. They want you to write the question because you're s'darn smart about this topic. What do you have for them? Here's mine:

Q: "Mangetout” is a fancy name for what?

a) Snow Pea
b) Cantaloupe
c) Cauliflower
d) White Asparagus

[Walters]

Okay you Chowhounds, what constitutes the center of an Orego cookie?

[adroit_minx]

Ugh, do we really wanna know? It's got to have HFCS and partially hydrogenated something in it...

[mark]

humans are purported to taste like which animal?

a) chicken

b) beef

c) pork

d) monkey

[Sam Fujisaka]

Well, if omnivorous primates taste similar, one would have to guess monkey.

[chowser]

Would that depend on whether the person was a vegetarian or not? Someone on the Atkins diet vs a vegetarian?;-) Has there been a taste test comparison, like grass fed beef vs not?

[mark]

i've always heard that we taste like pork.

here's a link to a robot that thinks so, too...

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/11/robot_identifie.html

here's a little quiz i found that will tell you what taste like. i'm peanut butter.

http://quiz.ravenblack.net/flavour.pl

[AnneInMpls]

I love the quiz!!! I'm curry.

Anne

[orangewasabi]

I wanted to be Marmite

[Brian S]

Here are two questions, not great but all I can come up with.

1. You go to a restaurant and are offered chicken stewed with wine and basil, lamb with cumin, pork belly braised with lots of oil and a veg which looks and tastes like collard greens, and chicken with country ham and mushrooms. What country's food does this restaurant offer?

1. You eat in an old-school NYC Italian. If the guy who cooked your food wasn't born in Italy or the US, it's a safe bet he came from one of which two countries?

[cap]

1. China.
2. Brazil, Mexico

[Brian S]

Yes, China wins! But for the Italian question, I'd say Albania or Mexico.

[mojoman]

I nailed the quiz (30) although I had to guess on several answers so I was lucky.

[billjriv]

These "bells" can be bought at Chinese grocery store in a salted and semi-desiccated form, which is usually yellow or slightly brownish in colour. There salted and do not have any fishy or unpleasant odours.
a.jellyfish
b.pork sung
c.dried squid
d.bai top shells

[pikawicca]

I think when you get down to what people really mean, "mange tout' refers to sugar snaps.

[frenetica]

No, I lived in the UK for a long time and we call sugar snaps sugar snaps. Mangetout is only snow peas.

[jwagnerdsm]

Sorry. Wrong answer. That would be the ice cream CONE.

[Candy]

Okay it was just a guess. I would suppose Good Humor invented it a bit later but not much later

[jwagnerdsm]

It was actually invented my a pharmacist in Onawa, Iowa, who named it the Eskimo Pie

[Candy]

I may be addled, but I always thought those things were sandwiched between two 2 chocolate wafers

[Elizzie]

Who was, by the way, my great grandmother's brother...

[othervoice]

THE CULINARY WORLD ACCORDING TO GOOGLE LIST SNOW PEA.

[JK Grence the Cosmic Jester]

A couple of years ago, I wrote a quiz with all kinds of tricky food trivia.

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?tes...

[Candy]

That was a fun quiz.

[othervoice]

i LOVED YOUR TEST

[weezycom]

I really enjoyed the quiz. Thanks!

[wyf4lyf]

That was a blast!! Pleased to say I scored 91%! :)

[bryan]

Me too! But I couldn't find out what I got wrong.

[billjriv]

looked like a good way to give up info and sign up for a dating service.

[JK Grence the Cosmic Jester]

You can do that part only if you want to; registration is not required. It's a fun site in general, I've been on there for quite some time.

[rockycat]

Same here. What's the deal with all the CH'ers getting 91%? And I'd love to know if we're all getting the same things wrong.

[Candy]

I'm just confused about the scoring there were 2, 75 and 99% and a rating of Chef in Training. What do they mean?

[LindaWhit]

Fun test! I was able to score 77% - Chef in Training. :-) But I'd love to know what I got wrong. (Definitely the sushi one, I'm sure!)

[JK Grence the Cosmic Jester]

The sushi one was toro, fatty tuna. Ebi is shrimp, tako is octopus, unagi is eel, all cooked.

[LindaWhit]

Cool - then I got that one right! (I'm not a sushi eater, so I had to go on what I remembered reading about toro on CH. <g>)

[frenetica]

I'm sorry, but where is octopus sashimi served cooked? Is this some kind of American thing? I've been eating octopus sashimi all my life and it has always been served raw.

[Humbucker]

Most tako served in sushi-yas in America is boiled. Are you sure you've been eating raw octopus? If it's white, then it's been boiled. The raw stuff is slimy and a little translucent.

[jwagnerdsm]

Where was the Ice Cream Bar invented?

[Candy]

St.Louis World's Fair?

[Candy]

Well sashimi is thinly sliced raw fish, steak tartare is minced raw beef with often a raw egg and some seasoning. Ofter was prepared table side...probably outlawed in US restaurants. Ceviche would be raw marinated fish, if it was cooked it would be escabeche, carpaccio is thin shavings of raw beef often drizzled with olive oil salt and pepper so that leaves antecuchos. I have not seen that spelling before though I have seen anticuchos and most often they are skewers of marinated meats, offal or seafood. I guess there is no reason they could not be eaten raw, I've just not seen it.

[Sam Fujisaka]

You get the next $25,000 check. Sorry for the misspelling. Anticuchos are usually marinated beef heart, I think better uncooked.

[MakingSense]

Sam, in Ecuador, they cook shrimp before making ceviche with them. Can I have money, too?
I thought antecuchos were grilled on skewers. Maybe I'll go to Peru and eat a lot of them when my check arrives.

[Sam Fujisaka]

I didn't know about cooked shrimp being considered a ceviche in Ecuador (possibly because I'm allergic to shrimp and have had to ignore such dishes). Candy might be right (as always) in that the cooked shrimp might better be called an escabeche. Anticuchos are mostly grilled, but, with strong marinde, is great "raw". Let's you and I share the check a bit on an eating adventure!

[MakingSense]

The escabeche in Ecuador was coated in flour before frying. Usually fish, generally not marinated. I had vizcasa escabeche in Argentina. Some kind of rodent sort of like a nutria. Fried, then marinated in an oil and vinegar dressing with a lot of onions. I usually eat and ask questions later...

[Sam Fujisaka]

Spot on: eat then (unnecessarily) ask. Let me know next time you pass through Colombia.

[Sam Fujisaka]

Which of the following is eaten either cooked or raw (raw including with marinades)?

a. sashimi
b. antecuchos
c. steak tartare
d. ceviche
e. carpaccio

[frenetica]

In France they'll often sear off the outside of your tartare for you if you ask, too.

[jwagnerdsm]

Snow Pea

[adroit_minx]

You have a Capital One check for $25,000 AND another life line! Congratulations!

What's your question?

[ngardet]

Wrong, mangetout is a variety of haricot vert.

[Candy]

well it could be but most often it refers to a snow pea. Mange tout means eat all. So snow peas, sugar snaps. green beans, any veg where you eat the pod and seed could fall under the appellation.

[AnneInMpls]

And I would argue that mangetout isn't the "fancy name" for snowpea, it's just the British and French name. Don't y'all go making those Europeans think they're fancy, now!

Anne

[Candy]

I don't see the words "fancy name" in my response., Read it again. Just mange tout means eat all.

[AnneInMpls]

Sorry, the "fancy name" comment was for the OP, not you. And you are 100% correct on the meaning, of course! I rule that you get the $25,000.

Anne

[Candy]

I'll send an address to whomever is cutting the check.