Food & Drink Quiz Friday #8

This type of seed is one of the oldest oil seeds known to man and is highly valued due to its exceptional resistance to rancidity. The seeds are a source of essential nutrients like omega-6 fatty acids (mainly linoleic and oleic), contain high amounts of protein and dietary fiber, and are rich in B vitamins, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron, and zinc.

A phrase made popular from the tale Arabian Nights references the way the pod of this seed bursts open when it reaches maturity.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #7

Now available fresh or tinned, Laverbread is rich in minerals and vitamins, including B12. It is also high in protein, iron, and iodine, and low in calories. Traditionally it was eaten as part of a miner's breakfast before a long day at the pits. It was also recommended for women and children who were suffering from malnourishment.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #6

If you hold an ultraviolet light (or a black light) over a bottle of tonic water, this ingredient makes it fluoresce. The FDA limits the contents of this ingredient in tonic water to 83 ppm (parts per million).

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #5

Made from two simple ingredients (sugar and the nut in question), marzipan is mentioned in Persian text dated all the back to the year 850. More than likely, it was around for many years before that. There are other varieties of marzipan made now that use other nuts, but I'm looking for the "original" nut today.

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Answer to Food & Drink Quiz Friday #4: The first loaf of pre-sliced bread hit shelves on July 7, 1928 labeled "Sliced Kleen Maid Bread".!

Food & Drink Quiz Friday #4

The answer to ragged, irregular slices that consumers got every time they had to cut a piece of bread from their store-bought loaves, Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the Rohwedder Bread Slicer. This machine that sent the first wax paper-wrapped loaf of pre-sliced bread onto shelves measured 5 feet wide and 3 feet high.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #3

Thought to be the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man, some think this drink was discovered by accident when some hungry hunter-gatherers stumbled upon an upturned beehive filled with sweet, fermented rain water. 

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #2

The stigmas are the female part of this flower which comes from a plant that might produce several flowers in a good year. Each of these flowers contains three stigmas, which are the only part of the flower that, when dried properly, become commercial, culinary grade saffron.

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Food & Drink Quiz Friday #1

This food has the fifth basic taste called umami and is one of the very few plant sources of Vitamin D.

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Give it Away Now...

So, a few weeks back, I won these fun greeting cards made by Lady Stiles from The Beauty of Life.  Cute, huh?  

What's that?  You said you want some, too?  

Okay, okay...settle down...you may just get lucky and find a set of these in your very own mailbox one day soon. MmmHmm.  Lady Stiles is going to send one lucky reader a set of their very own greeting cards.  Just like mine.  Only not.  You will actually get 2 extra cards with surprise photos and greetings.  Sweet.

If you would like to enter to win a set of these beauties, simply leave a comment on this post telling me why snail mail totally kicks e-mails butt.  You can be serious.  You can jest.  You can make up a story.  You can tell me a truth.  It would also be nice if you'd stop over and say hello to Lady Stiles...it's not a requirement, but "it'd be a lot cooler if you did."***

***BONUS ENTRY: Tell me which movie this quote (the underlined one) is from (in a separate comment).  It's an oldie but a goodie...and back in college, we used to watch it on a loop...and recite it by heart. 

Giveaway ends May 14th at 11:59 pm (Eastern time).  Be sure I have some way of getting in touch with you if you win (email, link back to blog, etc.).  Good Luck!

*Update May 15: Winner by random dot org draw is #2 Erin from Eating My Way Back...congrats Erin! Thanks to all who participated...and yup, the movie was Dazed and Confused.  All right, all right, all right...