Do you have what it takes to snatch the 'Food Meister' title? (Warning: this game may cause a period of procrastination!)
You'll never beat the un-guessability of the pawpaw. You'll have to go and track your own non-commercially produced regional oddity 😊
"Peppercorn rent" - I first heard of it in a book.
Which book? Very good question. I could not tell you where I read it first. But I know I have since come across it several times. It's one of those requisites
all food historians simply must include at some point. "And peppercorns were so valuable, you could pay your landlord in pepper! Hence the phrase peppercorn rent!" Which, of course, is a phrase no one has heard of outside the context of said food history books. Although according to wikipedia, it is a legal term. Who knew?
I will say I am impressed at the photos I have dug off my hard-drive for this game. Didn't even know I had this last one.
[Edited: 2011 Jun 23 22:33 - Stephanie and Andras:35953 ]
Reply to this That would be a banana flower 'heart', though I've never eaten it myself.
Reply to this And I'm so glad this one wasn't guessed immediately
I was sleepy!
Prepare your next one, Jason, because that's a banana inflorescence or heart.
Bring it on!
Reply to this Looks like some sort of roe/cavier - the egg of an aquatic creature of sorts. Hard to tell which without knowing the size - could be trout, or salmon?
Reply to this Hmmm... are these grapes? In the process of becoming raisins, perhaps?
Reply to this Has to be a type of fungi - because there's no way it's a vegetable (that does not look very leaf/root/stalk-like to me. Although I could be completely wrong).
Reply to this Some sort of soft, orange candies / fruit pastilles?
Reply to this Oooh, good guess Hana! I like it.
Or a rock-salt - something with magnesium would account for the color. From either the Himalayas, Bolivia or Australia (all of which have beds of orange-pink salts).
[Edited: 2011 Jun 24 18:32 - Stephanie and Andras:35953 ]
Reply to this Not fruit pastels
Not rock salt, neither is it from the Himalayas, Bolivia or Australia.
Its an unprocessed ingredient from Africa.
[Edited: 2011 Jun 24 19:00 - aspiringnomad:90 ]
Reply to this Baobab seeds? (which I would put in a "fruit" category, but no matter...)
Reply to this Nope, Not Fruit nor Seed.
This is not alive though it once constituted part of something that is...
[Edited: 2011 Jun 24 21:06 - aspiringnomad:90 ]
Reply to this If it's not an animal, not a fruit/seed, not a vegetable (rules out root, stalk, stem), not fungi - than that leaves bark of something, the root nodule of something, the excrement of something or the by-product of something (ie: honey or birdsnest, although that wouldn't constitute an 'alive' anything)
Hmm....
Reply to this Then I'd say it's a flip between frankincense or myrrh.
Or mastic. Because that one I've actually seen used in cooking.
[Edited: 2011 Jun 24 22:22 - Stephanie and Andras:35953 ]
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