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  1. Medieval Feasts Had Fake Food Banquets in the Middle Ages featured illusion foods—like fake peacocks stuffed with chicken. It wasn’t just about taste—it was all about spectacle and status. #foodtrivia #foodhistory

  2. Food shocker for today!
    Strawberries aren’t true berries. Bananas are!
    A true berry develops from one flower with one ovary and usually has seeds inside.
    • Bananas grow from a single flower with one ovary.
    • Strawberries don’t, each seed is on the outside and is its own tiny fruit.
    #botany #SurfFeeds #foodstories #fruit #FoodTrivia

    #foodculture

  3. Food shocker for today! Strawberries aren’t true berries. Bananas are! A true berry develops from one flower with one ovary and usually has seeds inside. • Bananas grow from a single flower with one ovary. • Strawberries don’t, each seed is on the outside. #foodculture #foodstories #FoodTrivia

  4. Food shocker for today!

    Strawberries aren’t true berries. Bananas are! #FoodTrivia

    Why?
    A true berry develops from one flower with one ovary and usually has seeds inside.
    •  Bananas grow from a single flower with one ovary.
    •  Strawberries don’t, each seed is on the outside and is its own tiny fruit, making strawberries an aggregate fruit.

    Botanically speaking… bananas win the berry title! Botanists, please way in! #botany #foodculture #foodstories #fruit

  5. Quiz time! Can you guess the alternative name for an Alligator Pear? 🤔 Hint: It's creamy and green! #FoodTrivia #gardening #vegetables #growyourown #planning #allotment

  6. 🍯 Condiment capital! A. Chicago, B. Middleton, WI 🥨, C. New Orleans? Comment your answer!

    🥨 B. Middleton, WI! 6,000+ mustards. Quirky USA quiz 👉 quizzlook.com #FoodTrivia

  7. 🐴 Sweet nostalgia! Which candy honors a horse? A. Milky Way 🌌, B. Snickers 🍫, or C. Twix 🥠? Guess below!

    ✅ B. Snickers! Named after the Mars family’s horse. Candy lovers, quiz on! ➡️ quizzlook.com #FoodTrivia

  8. 🍔 Drive-thru debate! Who did it first? A. McDonald’s 🍟, B. In-N-Out 🍔, or C. Wendy’s 🧑‍🍳? Vote in comments!

    🚗 A. McDonald’s (1975)! Fast-food fans, test your knowledge ➡️ quizzlook.com #FoodTrivia

  9. I still adore the bit of trivia in which @aardman's 'A Grand Day Out,' featuring #WallaceandGromit, is credited as returning #Wensleydale #cheese to popularity. From @NoContextBrits. #foodtrivia #foodhistory #popculture #TyrrelsCrisps

  10. I still adore the bit of trivia in which @aardman's 'A Grand Day Out,' featuring #WallaceandGromit, is credited as returning #Wensleydale #cheese to popularity. From @NoContextBrits. #foodtrivia #foodhistory #popculture #TyrrelsCrisps

  11. Quiz time! Can you guess the alternative name for an Alligator Pear? 🤔 Hint: It's creamy and green! #FoodTrivia #gardening #vegetables #growyourown #planning #allotment

  12. Our third collab quiz has just been published! We joined efforts with our friend Will from Sunday Quiz and put together a 20-question quiz with Food & Drink and General Knowledge questions.
    Check it out at:
    sundayquiz.com/friday-20-quest

    #collab #collaboration #food #drink #foodtrivia #drinktrivia #gk #gkquiz #pubquiz #pubtrivia #quiz #trivia #triviaquestions #fact #facts #didyouknow #youknowwhat #blog #blogger #generalknowledge #sundayquiz

  13. (The earliest known version of ketchup originated in #China in the seventeenth century. The first ketchup was prepared from fermented anchovies, unlike the tomato ketchup that is made nowadays.)

    #Ketchup comes from the #Hokkien #Chinese word, kê-tsiap (name of a sauce derived from fermented fish).

    slurrp.com/article/mushroom-ke

    #AsianMastodon #FoodOrigins #FoodHistory #FoodFacts #ChineseOrigins #DidYouKnow #FoodTrivia #ChineseCreation #condiment #HistoryOfSauces

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