What did Harry and Meghan serve their wedding guests? The faddy eater's food quiz of the year

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1. Of course, we all spent the year drinking collagen-infused gin while bingeing on banoffee hummus. But which of the following was not a UK food trend in 2018?

   1. The Victorian-era vegetable salsify

   2. Fragrances you could eat

   3. Smoked wood shavings

   4. Cheese tea

2. 

   He was known for his bold and courageous magazine covers, such as one with a boiled egg on it. So why did the Woodward and Bernstein of supermarket-branded content, William Sitwell, step down as editor of Waitrose Food magazine?

   1. He was discovered to have been friends with Jacob Rees-Mogg

   2. He dedicated an entire issue of the magazine to puy lentils

   3. He joked that a proportion of Waitrose’s customer base should be force-fed meat or killed

   4. He admitted that he bought all his wine from Aldi

3. Why did the owner of Stanich’s burger joint in Portland, Oregon, claim it was forced to close in January?

   1. It was voted best burger place in the US and it could not keep up with the influx of new customers

   2. Beef prices shot up due to Trump’s tariffs

   3. The place attracted too many Instagrammers, who demanded increasingly visually appealing burgers

   4. The chefs all became vegan

4. 

   Meat was declared officially over this year, despite the slightly inconvenient fact that meat production was higher than ever. The meat-free Beyond Burger did make headlines, however, but for what reason?

   1. No professional chef was able to distinguish it from real meat in a blind tasting

   2. It could realistically “bleed” thanks to added beetroot juice

   3. It was made on a farm to “absorb” the cattle-rearing atmosphere

   4. It was known to moo when you took a bite

5. 

   This was the year that Heston Blumenthal realised he could put whatever the hell he wanted in his food and nobody was going to stop him. So which ingredient did he claim to have sprinkled in soup as a thickener?

   1. Ants

   2. Dust

   3. Gravel

   4. Popping candy

6. 

   Harry and Meghan showed how different they were from normal royalty by inviting around 1,200 commoners to hang around the grounds of Windsor Castle while they got married. But what did they serve the ordinary folk as a picnic?

   1. Cucumber sandwiches and a scone

   2. A platter of cold meats, cheeses and caviar

   3. Newspaper-wrapped fish and chips

   4. Diddly squat – guests were told to bring their own food

7. 

   The food world mourned the death of Anthony Bourdain, aged 61. His famous 2000 book Kitchen Confidential dispensed many pieces of culinary wisdom. Which of these is made up?

   1. “Sauté pans were designed for hitting imbecile sous chefs”

   2. “Don’t touch my dick, don’t touch my knife”

   3. “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins”

   4. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride”

8. 

   It was a year in which the UK public finally started to catch on to the smooth and salty delights of sea urchin. Mmmm. But which part of the creature were people eating?

   1. They weren’t eating the urchin itself, but its regurgitated food

   2. Its eggs, scraped from inside the shell

   3. The animal’s faecal matter, expelled after a period of overfeeding

   4. The organism’s gonads

9. Crippling food shortages and rising grocery costs were just two of the reasons why people enthusiastically voted for Brexit (did you not see it written on a bus?). But which specific product was the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, Michael Gove, warned could disappear from our shelves within a fortnight in the event of a no-deal Brexit?

   1. Mars bars

   2. John West sardines

   3. Heinz tomato soup

   4. Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie

10. 

    Which impressively lazy item did Marks & Spencer remove from its shelves for resembling everything that is wrong with late-stage capitalism?

    1. Pre-cracked eggs selling for £1.99 each

    2. A slice of cauliflower “steak”, priced at £2.50

    3. Potato that had been mashed for you, at £4.99 for 500g

    4. A full English breakfast cooked, eaten and digested for you, at £7.25

Solutions

1:C, 2:C, 3:A, 4:B, 5:C, 6:D, 7:A, 8:D, 9:A, 10:B

Scores

1. 10 and above.

   Wow! You’re clearly a fearless foodie, who knows their urchin innards from their digestible gravel. Your insides may have no idea what is happening, but at least your food knowledge is flaming hot.

2. 7 and above.

   Not bad. Maybe hold fire on submitting that head-chef application to Noma for now – but you’ve served up a respectable score.

3. 8 and above.

   Not bad. Maybe hold fire on submitting that head-chef application to Noma for now – but you’ve served up a respectable score.

4. 6 and above.

   Not bad. Maybe hold fire on submitting that head-chef application to Noma for now – but you’ve served up a respectable score.

5. 4 and above.

   Oh dear. Admit it, you’ve spent the entirety of 2018 in a Wimpy, haven’t you?

6. 3 and above.

   Oh dear. Admit it, you’ve spent the entirety of 2018 in a Wimpy, haven’t you?

7. 2 and above.

   Oh dear. Admit it, you’ve spent the entirety of 2018 in a Wimpy, haven’t you?

8. 1 and above.

   Oh dear. Admit it, you’ve spent the entirety of 2018 in a Wimpy, haven’t you?

9. 9 and above.

   Wow! You’re clearly a fearless foodie, who knows their urchin innards from their digestible gravel. Your insides may have no idea what is happening, but at least your food knowledge is flaming hot.

10. 5 and above.

    Not bad. Maybe hold fire on submitting that head-chef application to Noma for now – but you’ve served up a respectable score.

11. 0 and above.

    Oh dear. Admit it, you’ve spent the entirety of 2018 in a Wimpy, haven’t you?