Mao and the Mango
The Cultural Revolution
Food as Propaganda
It All Goes Back to...
Food Facts
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Mangoes came to symbolize this group during the Cultural Revolution

Workers

100

The Cultural Revolution ended in this year

1976 (when Mao died)

100

This was featured on this faces of celebrities in "Got Milk?" campaigns

A milk mustache

100

Joseph Stalin is from this country — home to the oldest winemaking culture in the world

Georgia

100

This city is credited with originating what we know today as the hot dog

Frankfurt-am-Main

200

A village dentist was given this punishment after saying he was unimpressed by a mango touring through China

Execution

200

The mango craze happened this many years after the Cultural Revolution started

Two years

200

French fries were called this in the U.S. after the French government withheld its support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq 

Freedom fries

200

Thailand's leaders were afraid of losing independence to these two countries before World War II

France and the U.S.

200

This technique is used to make pad Thai, lending itself to the dish's name

Stir-fry

300

The foreign minister of this country gifted Mao a basket of mangoes during a diplomatic visit in 1968

Pakistan

300

Chinese propaganda was against these two countries during the Cultural Revolution

The Soviet Union & the U.S.

300

This political ideology led Thailand's prime minister to make pad Thai the national dish

Nationalism

300

The Soviet government passed a resolution in 1936 to increase the production of this kind of wine

Sparkling wine

300

This chemical gives sauerkraut its "sauer" taste

Lactic acid
400

The mango craze lasted this long during the Cultural Revolution

One-and-a-half years
400

Chinese students who embraced and carried out Mao's Cultural Revolution were called this

Red Guards

400

Sauerkraut was called this in the U.S. during World War I

Liberty cabbage

400

Mao is from the Hunan region of China which is known for this kind of food

Spicy

400

This process happens when rice, noodles, and other starchy foods are cooked in hot water

Gelatinization

500

The ending of this event led to Mao gifting mangoes to Beijing factory workers

Violent fighting between two groups of Red Guards

500

The period of agricultural and industrial reforms in China pre-dating the Cultural Revolution is called this

The Great Leap Forward

500

Hamburgers were called this in the U.S. during World War I

Liberty steaks

500

This was the official name of Thailand before 1939

Siam

500

Champagne vinegar was given its name for these two reasons

1. It comes from the Champagne region of France

2. It's typically made with the same grapes used for champagne