Another Culinary Quiz…
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on June 5, 2008 – 7:12 am -1. What was once known as an alligator pear?
2. What does it take a chicken between 24-26 hours to do?
3. This dessert was created by Escoffier to celebrate Queen Victoria’s sixty years on the throne of England. BONUS: What ingredients comprise this dessert?
4. Which word refers to rice noodles? A. Bao B. Com C. Pho D. Mien?
5. In Babylonia’s 1750 BC Code of Hammurabi, what was the penalty if a beer house was found to be watering down their beer?
6. True or False: Some species of sturgeon can live for over 100 years?
7. What do only three people know at any one time about D.O.M. Benedictine liqueur? BONUS: What does the acronym D.O.M. (Deo Optimo Maximo) translate as?
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1. Avocado (great on burritos!)
2. Lay an egg
3. Cherries Jubilee (cherries and….I know it’s a crepe-like base and some booze…cognac? :))
4. Mien?
5. Death
6. True (fisheries major, esp W. Sturgeon, Sacramento River, CA)
7. Ingredients, Temp, Storage Time (maybe they say a prayer over the finished product?)
5 out of 7, not bad.
1. An avocado, which makes sense because it has the skin of an alligator and the shape of a pear. So who in the hell came up with “squash”?
2. Decide to bow out of the race and endorse the rooster? Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry. Please don’t kill me.
3. The Overly-Ornate Highly-Decorated Pudding. Ingredients include cherries, ice cream, and heavily carved crown molding.
4. Yum.
5. All employees exiled to the House of Manischewitz.
6. This is true, as McCain can prove since he went to high school with most of them.
7. Do you mean to tell me that D.O.M. does NOT stand for Dear Old Monks? I’m aghast!
2. Har-har-har! It took me a sec, but the penny dropped.
Funny lulu57. If you don’t know the answer make ‘em laugh! Good ones, sweetie.
To God the most and the best? Something like that?
No wait–FROM God the most and the best?
Latin. Ack. What little I ever memorized about declensions I’ve forgotten.
The Latin professor is at a restaurant. The waiter asks if he’d like to order some wine. “Yes,” says the professor. “Wine. Vinum, vini, vino…”
Later, he’s eating his dinner and flags down the waiter. “Where’s my wine?”
“Well sir, you ordered it, and then you declined it.”
LOL! Those pesky Latins!
Answers:
1. An avocado
2. It takes a chicken between 24-26 hours to form and lay an egg.
3. To commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Escoffier created the dessert Cherries Jubilee. BONUS: This flaming indulgence consists of cherries, sugar and brandy served over ice cream.
4. C. Pho
5. Death
6. True
7. The recipe for D.O.M. liqueur dates back to 1510 and is so secretive that only three people know it at any one time. BONUS: Deo Optimo Maximo translates as To God, most good, most great.
I purposely ignored the comments to give honest answers. I did not look anything up either online on in my books. From the start:
The alligator pear is a guess, but it describes a pineapple pretty well.
It takes a hen about that much time to form an lay an egg.
This is just a wild guess, but I will say baked Alaska, with cold vanilla ice cream inside of hot fudge, cooked very very fast. Just a guess.
I have no idea about the word for rice noodles, but I suspect that there are several. I will answer “all of the above”.
I believe that death for the brewer was the penalty for watering beer. Just my recollection on the Code, which could be harsh.
Yes, I know this one. Sturgeon can live for even longer than that. My Granddad saw a team of mules pulled into the Columbia River by one huge one. Fish seem to keep growing until they die.
It loosely translates to “the best from God”, but I am not a Latin scholar. The reason that only a few folks know is that it a trade secret.
But I prefer the green Chartreuse. Perhaps I failed the exam, but it was interesting. Warmest regards, Doc.