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Foods of the World Quiz

Name the foods described below.
Almost all these dishes can be made in multiple ways. These are some of the more common methods
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Last updated: August 28, 2018
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First submittedJune 20, 2010
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Description
Food
Japanese raw fish and rice
Sushi
Japanese raw fish (no rice)
Sashimi
Liquidy Hawaiian taro
Poi
Scottish sheep guts, stuffed in casing
Haggis
Korean pickled cabbage
Kimchi
German fermented cabbage
Sauerkraut
Canadian fries, cheese curds and gravy
Poutine
English ground lamb and mashed potatoes
Shepherd's Pie
Greek pita with meat and tzatziki sauce
Gyro
Norwegian whitefish, dried and
treated with lye
Lutefisk
Asian rice soup or porridge, often
eaten when ill
Congee
Description
Food
Mexican sandwich
Torta
Spanish saffron rice and seafood
Paella
Polish potato dumplings
Pierogi
Louisiana fried shrimp sandwich
Po' Boy
Italian potato dumplings
Gnocchi
French goose liver
Foie Gras
South African beef jerky
Biltong
Hungarian beef and vegetable stew
Goulash
Spanish tomato soup, served cold
Gazpacho
Australian sandwich spread, made
from yeast extract
Vegemite
Indian fried shell, triangular
with savory filling
Samosa
63 Comments
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Level 77
Jul 20, 2013
Thanks to Madhur Jaffrey for getting the congee!
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Level 67
Jul 21, 2013
It sounds a lot like jook--the rice porridge we would make with chicken cooked until the small bones disintegrated. Happy days.
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Level 23
Jul 21, 2013
"Jook" would be the way to pronounce congee in chinese. In english, its refered to as congee.
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Level 33
Jan 20, 2017
I agree, I'm half chinese and my grandfather used to make jook all the time, I think it should be accepted as an answer. I've never heard of congee...
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Level 75
Sep 13, 2020
Jook is also what it's called in Avatar: The Last Airbender (and what I guessed first) since it's based on Chinese culture, or kinda just an amalgam of Asian cultures
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Level 74
Jul 21, 2013
18/22, getting better at this. Helps that I had kimchi for the first time since you last updated this quiz.
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Level 81
Jul 21, 2013
sushi is just the rice, anything can go in or on it. and kimchi can also be any pickled or fermented vegetable. Yes, I see the disclaimer. I tried "shrimp po'boy" before getting "po'boy"... the restaurant I used to order it from all the time always had it listed that way. But that was in Virginia, not Louisiana, so they might have just attached the extra adjective for people who didn't know what po'boy was.
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Level 82
Sep 10, 2020
Shrimp is an adjective is it?
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Level 76
Jul 21, 2013
Is it just me or do most of these dishes sound really disgusting? Other than the Shepherd's Pie, the Goulash, and maybe the Gyro, I wouldn't put any of these nasty things in my mouth!!
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Level 21
Jan 20, 2014
if you don't try it youll never know if you'll like it, you'd be suprized how man of these things are better then the stuff you eat on a daily basis.
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Level 60
Feb 18, 2014
I haven't had lutefisk, and poi is pretty bland. The rest of these are all pretty tasty.
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Level 83
Dec 6, 2015
Haggis is awesome.
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Level 85
Jul 5, 2017
From my experience, poi and vegemite are rather disgusting. Pierogis (with sour cream), sushi/sashimi, gyros and goulash are delicious! Sauerkraut is wonderful on a hot dog with mustard.

Kimchi, paella, shepherd's pie, gazpacho, po'boys and gnocchi are okay.

I would try any of the others if someone I knew (and trusted) recommended them as being particularly good, even though some of them (haggis, lutefisk) sound a little nasty.

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Level 70
Sep 8, 2017
Haggis is a mixture of the heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, etc with barley and different herbs filled into a sheep's stomach and cooked. Guts i.e. intestines etc are not usually involved but are used for sausage skins (still are). Funnily enough it is really an old Lancashire recipe that was first mentioned in Lancashire and published in recipe books there before anywhere else in UK.
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Level 33
Apr 15, 2018
Yes, Vegamite (marmite) is nasty but my husband loves it since he grew up with it.

Pierogies, gnocchi, sauerkraut, kimchi, gyros- yum!

Lutefisk is popular where I’m from but only tried it once. Think heap of whitish/translucent fish jello without much taste that just slips down your throat. Ughh- must be an acquired taste.

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Level 86
May 22, 2022
That's okay, Eric. More for me!
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Level 28
Jul 21, 2013
Pierogi are not necessarily potato. They came come in practically anything - cabbage and mushroom, meat (like corned beef) or even fruit like plums cane be made into pierogi for desert.
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Level 69
Jul 21, 2013
i credit my perfect score to living in NYC
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Level 96
Jun 26, 2015
And I attribute mine to living in Vancouver. Yay cities?
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Level 85
Feb 1, 2016
lol
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Level 86
May 22, 2022
Amen, neighbor!
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Level 84
Jan 6, 2023
Britta Perry: "I lived in New York!"
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Level 83
Jul 22, 2013
Souvlaki is often served in a pita with tzatziki.
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Level 73
Aug 1, 2014
Yep, that's what they're called in Australia. Even the ones which are actually gyros and not souvlakis at all are called souvlakis. And they're delicious!
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Level 83
Oct 19, 2018
The different names actually exist already in Greece. Souvlaki means gyros or any pita wrap in Athens and southern Greece in general, while in the north (Thessaloniki) it's called gyros and souvlaki means grilled meat on a skewer.
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Level 84
Sep 4, 2019
It doesn't really depend on the region. Souvlaki is cubed pieces of meat on a small skewer while gyros is small slices of meat cut off a big skewer.
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Level 57
Sep 20, 2013
would help if I could spell some of them!
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Level 61
Jun 2, 2014
Indian fried 'shell' - shell? Is the word pastry missing?
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Level 37
Apr 15, 2018
A samosa isn't a pastry.....
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Level 48
Jun 6, 2014
I dispute the inclusion of lutefisk and vegemite, inasmuch as these substances are clearly not food.
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Level 45
Jun 20, 2014
Scottish sheep guts, stuffed in the sheep's STOMACH! Scots are sheep abusers!
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Level 83
Oct 12, 2015
Might forgive them their oddness for the fact that what must surely have been an accident actually tastes really good.
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Level 66
Apr 9, 2015
A torta isn't a sandwich.
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Level 74
Jul 8, 2024
In Mexico, in addition to the usual meaning of "cake", a torta is also a sandwich. The question remains why it is in the quiz. It's not a special food that you wouldn't find anywhere else in the world and there are other more representative options for Mexican cuisine.
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Level 72
May 12, 2015
Quizmaster, in Japan the rice porridge that you eat when ill is called "okayu". You should either accept that answer, or specify "Korean" instead of just "Asian."
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Level 82
Sep 21, 2023
In Korea we call it 죽 /juk/, not congee. (Replying 7 years later, I know.
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Level 96
Jun 26, 2015
Can you please accept "poh boy?" I've seen it that way many times.
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Level 75
Nov 24, 2015
I've tried all of those except the US ones, poi and poboy.

Also, Gyro is very US. In Australia (and I think Greece) we say Souvlaki for the same thing.

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Level 73
May 13, 2016
You should accept the spelling "sasimi" for "sashimi"

The "s" and "sh" sounds are the same phoneme in Japanese, so they're actually interchangable

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Level 35
Jun 13, 2016
Somehow i blanked on "torta" even though I love them!
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Level 74
Feb 24, 2017
For lunch I shall have Italian filled pasta squares. (Ravioli)
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Level 74
Feb 24, 2017
The poi we had at a festival on Kaua'i wasn't "liquidy", it was more of a paste. A local woman sitting next to me commented it was really good poi so maybe Hawaiian taro paste would be a better description? (Ours had a hint of sour taste to it and was actually pretty good when eaten with the lomi lomi salmon and laulau pork.)
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Level 85
Jul 5, 2017
Is Kaua'i magnificent, or what?!!! The poi I tried at the luau....not so much.
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Level 57
May 6, 2017
Misspelt foie gras 'fois gras' xD
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Level 85
Jul 5, 2017
Clearly you'll never make it as a double-0 agent. :-)
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Level 61
Sep 5, 2017
Can you make Guzpacho a spelling for "Gazpacho?" That is how some people spell it.
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Level 37
Apr 15, 2018
If they spell it wrong, then yes, it is the spelling.
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Level 46
Sep 6, 2017
Thanks for including Biltong- best thing to come out of South Africa
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Level 36
Sep 8, 2017
You mean since Charlize Theron ?
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Level 73
Nov 16, 2017
I'm surprised at the low scores on this quiz. I guess living in a multicultural country/city helps!
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Level 48
Apr 15, 2018
Marmite not acceptable for Vegemite?
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Level 48
Oct 15, 2018
nope... marmite is not Aussie and you are struggling to find it in a supermarket here unless you look under imported foods
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Level 89
Dec 1, 2020
Not on your bloody life, mate! 😊
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Level 59
Apr 18, 2018
Samosa Originated in Central Asia.
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Level 14
Nov 2, 2018
i didnt know porridge was apart of this quiz.
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Level 74
Dec 3, 2018
Please accept "khao tom moo" or just "khao tom" for "congee". It's a Thai rice soup/porridge, and once I thought of it I couldn't get my brain to go anywhere else.
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Level 52
Nov 6, 2020
I love how all these countries have such interesting cuisines that you could have at a restaurant and Australia gets Vegemite. Pretty accurate.
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Level 37
Jul 5, 2021
I have heard many foreingners describe samosas but never in such a funny way triangular fried pocket.
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Level 78
Nov 3, 2021
Please consider accepting kopytka for the Polish potato dumplings. They are very popular and fit the clue just as well.
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Level 34
Dec 10, 2021
Please specify what Asian country calls it congee, other Asian countries have rice porridge but it has different names to it
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Level 54
Nov 18, 2022
I kept putting in "Sheperd's Pie" for about a minute before I realized.
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Level 73
Feb 2, 2023
Salmorejo is also a spanish cold tomato soup, it should be accepted as an answer together with gazpacho
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Level 56
Jul 31, 2024
i spelt sheperds pie correctly and it wouldn't accept it