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This fast food restaurant introduced the happy meal in 1979.
What is McDonald's?
This living microscopic organism converts sugar or starch into carbon dioxide, causing bread to rise.
What is yeast?
This vegetable is also called a 'courgette'.
What is a Zucchini?
Brie, a soft white cheese, gets its name from a region of this European country where it was originally created.
Where is France?
This bowtie or butterfly shape pasta is considered a versatile pasta that can be paired with butter, sauce, or served cold in a salad.
What is Farfalle?
This Mexican dish consisting of tortilla, filling, and sauce translates to "seasoned with chile"
What is enchilada?
This national chain's advertising slogan is "Better ingredients, better pizza"
What is Papa John's Pizza?
This purple-skinned ingredient is the star ingredient of Baba Ghanoush.
What is eggplant?
This garden vegetable commonly used in spa treatments can lower the temperature of skin and blood, reducing inflammation when applied topically.
What is cucumber?
This Italian island lends its name to a rectangular thick-crust pizza.
Where is Sicily?
This culinary term refers to the process of slow cooking meats like duck or pork to extract fat from the meat.
What is rendering?
This popular finger food is celebrated in the US on July 13th.
What are French Fries?
McDonald's introduced this iconic meal in 1968.
What is the Big Mac?
Carrot cakes are traditionally frosted with this flavor of icing.
What is cream cheese?
This toast-topping food has more potassium than a banana.
What is avocado?
Historically the mild cheese gruyère was shared by France and this other European country until in 1986 French Gruy'ere was officially renamed Comte'
Where is Switzerland?
Spaghetti is a plural italian word, this word is its singular form.
What is Spaghetto?
This popular Spanish seafood dish traditionally includes saffron, paprika, rice, seafood, chicken, chorizo and peas.
What is paella?
This popular burger chain restaurant built the first drive-thru restaurant in 1948.
What is In-N-Out Burger?
This grain is the main dietary staple for more than half the world's population. Arkansas is the largest producer of this grain in the US.
What is rice?
This seed-studded fruit has a museum dedicated to it in Belgium.
What are strawberries?
The hot spicy curry "Vindaloo" comes from Goa, a state in this Southeast Asian country.
Where is India?
This soft drink, invented in 1885, is the oldest major soda brand still in production, beating its closest competitor by one year.
Dr. Pepper
This tex-mex favorite translates roughly to "little donkey"
What is burrito?
Dave Thomas owned a franchise of this fast-food chain before founding Wendy's.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken?
This nut from the state tree of Texas is a southern pie staple
What is pecan?
This ominously named pepper is known to be the hottest in the world.
What is the Carolina Reaper?
The 'Iron Chef America' TV shows were based on the 'Iron Chef' show that originated in this country.
Where is Japan?
This puffy poppy seed roll shares its name with a former royal title.
This Japanese seafood dish can only be prepared by a licensed chef.
What is Fugu? (Japanese pufferfish)
As a marketing ploy, this chain restaurant launched a fulll-page print ad announcing it was purchasing the Liberty Bell prompting public outrage. The restaurant pledged $50k to upkeep the monument as penance.
What is Taco Bell?
The simple pasta dish cacio e pepe is named for these two common ingredients.
What are cheese and pepper?
This plant comes in many varieties including Shirley, Ailsa Craig and Mr. Stripey.
What is Tomato?
This Germany city lends its name to a popular American dish that consists of a German-style minced meat patty and an American-style bun.
Where is Hamburg?
The labor-intensive production of this spice brings its price to upwards of $50 per quarter-ounce, making it the world's most expensive spice by weight.
What is saffron?
Originating in Beijing, this crispy meal is the national dish of China.
What is Peking duck?
Founders Joe Rogers and Tom Forkner named this iconic restaurant after the most expensive item on its 16-item menu.
What is Waffle House?
The spice saffron comes from this flower.
What is crocus?
To Italians this vegetable is known as the “crazy apple”
What is eggplant?
To avoid Prohibition in the US, Italian immigrant and restaurateur Cesare Cardini was living in this country when he invented the Caesar salad in 1924.
Where is Mexico?
This household goods and food manufacturer introduced Pringles potato chips in 1969.
What is Proctor and Gamble?
Zuppa is italian for this dish
What is soup?
This chain's logo design was modeled after the Chicago Water Tower, one of the few buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
What is White Castle?
Marzipan is thought to be higher quality and more expensive when it contains a higher proportion of this nutty key ingredient.
What are almonds?
This hardy cruciferous vegetable is the primary ingredient in sauerkraut, a fermented dish praised for its health properties.
What is cabbage?
The popular Italian-family-style chain restaurant Olive Garden was founded in this state in 1982.
Where is Florida? (Orlando)
This founding father is credited as the first American to write down an ice cream recipe.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The name for this popular dessert stems from the French word for “foam” or “froth”.
What is mousse?
Due to copyright laws, this American chain goes by the name Hungry Jack's in Australia.
What is Burger King?
This animal protein is the main ingredient in Chivito, the national dish of Uruguay.
What is beef/ beef steak?
There are about 30 different kinds of this spiny fruit that is infamous for its pungent odor.
What is durian?
Boba or Bubble Tea originated in this country in the early 80s.
Where is Taiwan?
This popular condiment was used as medicine for digestive disorders in the 1830s.
What is Ketchup?
In 2006, the Chicago City Council banned restaurants in the city from selling this goose liver dish.
What is Foie gras?
The first location of this international chain opened in an old Rolls-Royce dealership in 1971.
What is Hard Rock Cafe?
This bivalve mollusk has 2 fan-shaped shells that can be used to serve dishes like Coquilles St. Jacques.
What are scallops?
This latin word translates to the study of fruit.
What is pomology?
Maraschino cherries are named for a type of cherry native to this European country.
Where is Croatia?
This measurement scale, named after its pharmacist inventor, measures the spiciness of chili peppers based on the concentration of capsaicinoids.
What is Scoville?
This meat and vegetable stew is the national dish of Hungary.
What is goulash?