Vegetables
Although commonly treated as a vegetable in cooking, this food is botanically a fruit because it develops from a flower and contains seeds.
What is a tomato?
This fruit is the only major commercial fruit that develops its seeds on the outside of its fleshy surface.
What is a strawberry?
In the nursery rhyme “Pat-a-cake,” the baker is asked to mark this letter on the cake for the child and the speaker.
What is B?
Originally from Taiwan, this sweet tea drink is famous for the chewy tapioca pearls you sip through an extra-wide straw.
What is bubble tea (boba)?
This German port city lends its name to a diner sandwich that, despite what the name suggests, contains no pork at all.
What is Hamburg?
This orange vegetable was originally cultivated in purple, yellow, and white varieties before orange carrots became popular in Europe.
In the classic children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, this fruit is the first food the caterpillar eats on Monday.
What is an apple?
In the classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice encounters a baked treat labeled “Eat Me” that causes her to grow larger.
What is a cake?
In 1773, colonists protesting British taxes dumped 342 chests of this drink’s leaves into a harbor.
What is tea?
Many historians say French fries actually come from this neighboring country, where people were frying potato strips in the 1600s.
What is Belgium?
This vegetable contains a compound called sulforaphane, which researchers study for its potential health benefits. It belongs to the same plant family as cabbage and cauliflower.
What is broccoli?
This fruit produces ethylene gas as it ripens, which can speed up the ripening of nearby fruits and vegetables. It is also botanically classified as a berry.
This frozen dessert was named after an Italian city and traditionally combines three flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, representing the colors of the Italian flag in some accounts.
What is Neapolitan ice cream?
In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice joins this character and the March Hare at a tea party where it’s always six o’clock.
Who is the Mad Hatter?
In 1977, chili became the official state dish of this state, where “real” chili is famously made without beans.
What is Texas?
This vegetable was once nicknamed “poor man’s asparagus” and is grown for its edible stalks, which are often blanched to make them more tender and less bitter.
What is celery?
This fruit, which grows on a tree native to Southeast Asia, was once so valuable in Europe that wealthy collectors grew it in special glasshouses called pineries.
What is a pineapple?
This creamy French dessert is made by slowly cooking sugar until it caramelizes, then combining it with cream and egg yolks before baking it in a water bath.
What is crème brûlée?
Legend says coffee was discovered in Ethiopia when a herder named Kaldi noticed these animals getting extra energetic after eating coffee berries.
What are goats?
Every Fourth of July, competitive eaters gather at this Brooklyn beach neighborhood for Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest.
What is Coney Island?
This vegetable contains the compound syn-propanethial-S-oxide, which is released when its cells are damaged and causes your eyes to produce tears.
What is an onion?
In Greek mythology, eating the seeds of this fruit bound Persephone to spend part of each year in the Underworld.
What is a pomegranate?
This dessert, traditionally made with layers of puff pastry and pastry cream, is known in France as mille-feuille, meaning “a thousand leaves.”
What is a Napoleon?
Root beer originally got its flavor from the root bark of this tree, until the FDA banned its oil in 1960 over health concerns.
What is sassafras?
In 1962, this pop artist painted 32 canvases of Campbell’s soup cans, one for each flavor.
Who is Andy Warhol?