Foodie Quiz

[Pete]

...from the Grauniad.

Let's set aside the bent courgettes, the 'organic' slanging-match debate, etc. etc., for just half a mo', and try your hand at this.

Me?  errr... 17/40.  Barely better than pure random answers.  Evidently for all the mouthing off, I'm no foodie...

[gonzo]

14/40. I knew one for certain, the rest were mostly educated guesses!

[clarion]

28.  Shows I know nowt about soi-disant famous chefs I've never heard of!

[αdαmsκι]

15.  I knew a couple of answers, had a couple of educated guesses and  a lot stabs in the dark.  I fail to see the connection between food knowledge and the interests of chefs!

[Mr Larrington]

18/40, which is not bad for someone whose idea of haute cuisine is eating a BACON sandwich up a mountain.

[geraldc]

26. I was only sure of 1 or 2

[clarion]

Crikey!  I thought I'd get one of the lowest scores here!

[pcolbeck]

19/40 A lot of questions weren't about food though but the personal lives of celebrity chefs.

[nicknack]

20 here. Bugger all on the chefs but got all the quotations.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

21 but I guessed a lot of them.

[Phil]

22, mostly made on the literature questions and vegetable varieties. 

[goatpebble]

31, on food and quotations, guesses for everything else.

I am not a foodie! What went wrong?

[little miss mac]

Mr Goatpebble, you are most certainly verging on foodie-ness from what I've witnessed here! 

I got 21/40. A better show than that physics test someone posted a while ago, but with similar levels of guessing.

[goatpebble]

Mr Goatpebble, you are most certainly verging on foodie-ness from what I've witnessed here! 

I got 21/40. A better show than that physics test someone posted a while ago, but with similar levels of guessing.

I don't like the quiz, and I don't like my score. Perhaps I am sulking!

So, if I am sulking, then I have to explain. Good food should not be about point scoring. I suspect that some of the lowest scorers in this thread are probably good instinctive cooks, and better than I am at meeting the needs of their friends and families, with good stuff, however unfashionable.

I do not like the idea of silly foodie stuff alienating people from learning. If I approach food from a certain point of view, having been partly brought up outside the UK, then what I have to say should always be qualified by the principal of good use, of practicality and helpfulness.

Now let's ask Clarion, cos he has a very good score!

[Jules]

22

[Noodley]

20/40. 

Where were the questions about pies and bridies? 

[fiendish]

25/40.  Was hoping I'd do better, but actually I know bugger all about chefs.  Cooking, yes; cheffery and all that flouncing around and sleb lifestyle stuff, no.

[Pingu]

DNF

Gave up caring when the questions about self-important talentless dickheads celebrity chefs came up.

[eck]

20/40. 

Where were the questions about pies and bridies? 

I ate them all. 

And I lost interest in the quiz after about seven questions. "Celebrity chefs" 

Edit: just seen Pingu's response. 

[Mike J]

I lost interest after the first question 

[goatpebble]

25/40.  Was hoping I'd do better, but actually I know bugger all about chefs.  Cooking, yes; cheffery and all that flouncing around and sleb lifestyle stuff, no.

Exactly.

[hellymedic]

DNF

Gave up caring when the questions about self-important talentless dickheads celebrity chefs came up.

+1

[Noodley]

Where were the questions...?)

I ate them all. 
[/quote]

You ate all the questions?  No wonder they did not appear in the quiz - it's all your fault we had to answer wanky 'lifestyle' questions. 

[eck]

Where were the questions...?)

I ate them all. 

You ate all the questions?  No wonder they did not appear in the quiz - it's all your fault we had to answer wanky 'lifestyle' questions. 
[/quote]

Okay. okay,    just for Mr Noodley

Q: Who makes the best bridies in Forfar?
a) Cameron's
b) Cameron's
c) Cameron's

Q: what is the cost of ae plehn peh an' an ingin ane an' a'?

[Noodley]

Okay. okay,    just for Mr Noodley

Q: Who makes the best bridies in Forfar?
a) Cameron's
b) Cameron's
c) Cameron's

Further foodie question. 

How pissed off was I when I went to Mr Cameron's last Saturday to find he had no Bridies left:
a) mildly
b) hey, these things happen it's okay I'll just have something else
c) who the feck did you sell the last one to?  And are they infirm and catchable
d) you fecking idiot! why don;t you get up at 1am to make sure you have enough!