Grocery Trivia Game

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So it’s Friday: time for a little fun to go with your grocery shopping! See if you can answer any of the questions below; answers are at the bottom… but don’t cheat!

  1. Why was the Animal Crackers box designed with a string handle?
  2. What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose as a substitute for meat in school lunches, in 1996?
  3. What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
  4. What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
  5. What are the two top-selling spices in the world?
  6. What was the drink we know as the Bloody Mary originally called?
  7. What was the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal?
  8. Black-eyed peas are not peas. What are they
  9. What nation produces two-thirds of the world's vanilla?
  10. What was the first of H.J. Heinz' “57 varieties”?

Answers:

  1. The animal-shaped cookie treats were introduced in 1902 as a Christmas novelty, and packaged so they would be hung from Christmas trees.
  2. Astonishingly, yogurt.
  3. Banana oil, a synthetic compound made with amyl alcohol, is so named because it smells like bananas. There are no actual bananas used.
  4. The herring.
  5. 1) pepper and 2) mustard.
  6. The Red Snapper, which was its name when it crossed the Atlantic from Harry's New York Bar in Paris.
  7. Shredded Wheat.
  8. They’re actually beans.
  9. Madagascar.
  10. Horseradish.

So how did you do? Remember that if playing grocery trivia made you hungry, at Bliss Shufine Food Mart in Manchester NY, we have black-eyed peas, Shredded Wheat, Heinz 57, yogurt, and all the other products mentioned here, as well as whatever you need for your weekend meals! Why not stop by and visit us today?