Food & Drink
This Southern entrée staple is rarely eaten with a fork and knife
What is fried chicken?
To promote its status as “poultry capital of the world,” Gainesville, Georgia, passed a law that prohibits people from eating fried chicken with a fork.
Richard Dawson hosted a family game show and preceded the answers with this phrase.
What is “Survey says”?
Richard Dawson was the original host of Family Feud.
This rock ’n’ roll musician stars in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii.
Who is Elvis Presley?
In the movie, Elvis plays Chad Gates, a young man who defies his parents’ wishes and goes to work for his girlfriend’s agency as a tour guide.
This popular purple vegetable, prominent in Italian and Greek cooking, is ripe for harvest in August.
What is eggplant?
When its skin is smooth and shiny and it seems too heavy, it’s ripe.
Money doesn’t grow on these.
What are trees?
We say this when we perceive that someone doesn’t understand the value of money.
This squash can be used as a pasta substitute.
What is Spaghetti Squash?
To eat cooked spaghetti squash, remove the seeds and run a fork across the meat to create strands, Then, top with your favourite sauce and enjoy!
This American political family is associated with Camelot.
Who are the Kennedys?
President John F. Kennedy’s years are referred to as Camelot, but it was after his death that his widow Jackie first coined the term “American Camelot.” Today, people who were alive during Kennedy’s presidency sometimes use it to refer to the family as well as the era.
When a diner asks for their steak to be cooked “blue,” they mean they want it cooked to this doneness.
What is rare?
A rare steak really leans toward purple.
When you begin to feel a nip in the air in late August, it is time to plant this generic salad ingredient. Some varieties of it include oak leaf, iceburg, and Buttercrunch.
What is lettuce?
You can also plant any salad green, cucumber, or root or tuber vegetable in early fall. Cucumbers prefer warm weather, but they grow quickly.
The Canadian loonie coin has replaced this withdrawn paper denomination.
What is one Canadian dollar?
The loonie got its nickname from the loon pictured on one side of the coin. The $2 coin is known as the “toonie,” because it’s made from two metals. Paper money of these amounts have been phased out.
Mushrooms belong to this family
What is fungi?
Mushrooms do not require sunlight to grow!
This band recorded “California Dreamin’,” “Monday, Monday,” “Dedicated to the One I Love,” and many more tunes.
What is the Mamas & the Papas?
Band members John and Michelle Phillips were married from 1965–68.
Blue belongs to this category of three colors.
What is primary?
A primary color is one that is not made from mixing other colors. When two primary colors are mixed, it creates a secondary color. For example, when you mix blue with yellow, you get green.
This huge late bloomer is prized for its bright yellow color and its edible seeds.
What is sunflower?
What we think of as one sunflower is actually multiple flowers. The fuzzy, brown center comprises over a thousand tiny flowers.
This country was the first to use paper money.
Answer: What is China?
It was a double-edged sword: It was distrusted, but it made international trade easier.
SPAM is a combination of these two words
What are spice and ham?
Ham is the main ingredient, and because it is a canned good, it can easily be shipped. Today, there are 15 varieties of SPAM on the market.
This nighttime soap opera features the Ewing family.
What is Dallas?
The Ewing family is Texas oil royalty.
Tony Bennett first recorded a tune about a woman who wore this blue fabric.
What is velvet?
The tune Blue Velvet was written in 1950 and has been performed by other vocalists, including Bobby Vinton, Brenda Lee, and Sammy Davis Jr.
These beautiful insects love flowers, but you won’t see them once fall temperatures arrive, because they can’t fly in temperatures less than 55ºF.
What are butterflies?
A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope or flutter.
U.S. paper money is made from a combination of two textiles. One is linen, and this is the other.
What is cotton?
The composition is 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. Many countries have switched to longer-lasting polymer notes.
In large doses, this spice is a hallucinogenic.
What is nutmeg?
Nutmeg contains myristicin, a natural compound. Don’t worry; most recipes call for no more than one-half teaspoon of nutmeg. Notice that nutmeg is often used at half the amount of cinnamon in recipes.
The characters Ray, Debra, Robert, mother Marie, and father Raymond belong to this TV family.
What is the Barone family?
The show is Everybody Loves Raymond and stars Ray Romano. It won 56 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Blue foods are rare, but this food is a staple of Mexican cuisine.
What is corn?
The Hopi developed blue corn, a variety with more protein than white corn. Blue tortilla chips are made with blue corn.
The act of removing spent blooms is referred to by this term. If you’ve been doing it all season, make sure to stop in August if you want the seeds to self-sow.
What is deadheading or pruning?
When you stop removing spent flowers, they will turn into seed pods. You can pierce the pod with your fingers and spread the seeds for even more blooms next year
What is a "Half-Buck"?
Deer Park half-bucks can be redeemed at the café and tuck shop and have a value of fifty cents.