Australian Food Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which item of seasoned mince wrapped in flaky pastry and baked in a long tube, cut into portions, is a standard of Australian bakeries, school canteens and parties?

Question 2

Which term, sometimes shortened to Mod Oz, describes the light, eclectic restaurant cooking that draws on Asian and Mediterranean techniques and native ingredients?

Question 3

Which full-strength lager, usually shortened to VB, has for decades been among the best-selling beers in Australia despite little marketing overseas?

Question 4

Which country's large post-war migration to Australia is reflected in Adelaide's distinctive spelling yiros, for a wrap of spit-roasted meat, chips and salad in flatbread?

Question 5

Which deep-fried Australian snack, a thick pastry tube of cabbage, barley, carrot and meat, was created for sale at sporting events and shows in 1951?

Question 6

Which espresso coffee with steamed milk and a thin layer of microfoam, smaller and less frothy than a latte, is claimed as an invention by both Australia and New Zealand?

Question 7

Which widely mocked name, chosen through a public competition in 2009, did Kraft briefly give to a new Vegemite and cream cheese product before renaming it?

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About Australian Food

How well do you know Australian food -- the spreads and pies and sweets, the pub meals, the drinks, the coffee, and the migrant and native ingredients that fill an Australian plate? This quiz has fifty questions in two packs of twenty-five, written the way people search: what is Vegemite, why is it called a democracy sausage, who is the lamington named after, what fish is flake, which beer is really only popular overseas.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the background -- a date, a place, a person, a story.

The first pack covers the icons: Vegemite and the meat pie and the pie floater, the lamington and pavlova and Anzac biscuit, the Tim Tam and fairy bread and the Chiko Roll, the sausage sizzle and the Golden Gaytime, Weet-Bix and Milo and the Iced VoVo, damper and witchetty grubs, kangaroo and barramundi and the Moreton Bay bug, the macadamia, and the iSnack 2.0 misfire. The second pack covers meals and drinks: the barbecue and the burger with the lot, the chicken parma, flake and the flat white, smashed avo and the Starbucks retreat, the halal snack pack and the yiros and yum cha, VB and Foster's and XXXX, beer glass names and the shout, Penfolds Grange and the Barossa and cask wine, Bundaberg, Devonshire tea and smoko, and Modern Australian cooking.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph tied to the subject of the question, chosen so it does not reveal the answer. Every fact has been checked.