🍔 Food & Drink Trivia — May 31, 2026 Patrick - 0 Honey is famous for one quality that almost no other food on Earth can claim. What is it? It's the only food made entirely without water It never spoils — properly stored, it can last thousands of years It's the only food that contains no calories It's the only sweetener that's actually good for your teeth None Today lobster is a luxury — a $40 entrée you order when someone else is paying. But in colonial New England, lobster had the opposite reputation. What was it actually known as? A sacred food reserved for the wealthy A medicine sold by traveling doctors Poverty food, fed to prisoners, servants, and livestock Bait that was illegal to eat None Here's one for the produce aisle. Botanically speaking — by the actual scientific definition of the word — which of these is a true berry? Strawberry Raspberry Banana Blackberry None Ketchup is the most ordinary thing in your fridge. But in the 1830s, an American doctor named John Cook Bennett sold tomato-based ketchup as something else entirely. What was it marketed as? A cleaning product Medicine — pills that supposedly cured diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice A paint additive An insect repellent None Worcestershire sauce — the dark, savory stuff in steak sauce and Bloody Marys — was invented by two English chemists. According to the company's own story, what happened to the very first batch they mixed? It exploded and they nearly gave up It tasted so bad they abandoned the barrel in a basement, then rediscovered it later It was stolen and reverse-engineered by a competitor The recipe was won in a card game None Stumper. Carrots weren't originally orange — early carrots were purple, white, and yellow. There's a very popular story for why orange ones took over: that 16th-century Dutch farmers bred orange carrots to honor their national hero, William of Orange. What's the actual truth? It's confirmed — the Dutch absolutely engineered orange carrots as a patriotic tribute The orange carrot was actually invented in England, not the Netherlands It's a myth — orange carrots won out for practical farming reasons, and the patriotic story came afterward Carrots were never purple; that's the real myth None Time's up
