Food & Drink Local Quiz

[ClaireStan]

If meat is prepared saignant, how is it presented?

Which alcoholic drink is flavoured by sweet potatoes?

What year was instant mash invented?

[Clanad]

Japanese shochu... actually imo-shochu

[JackDanielsU]

Instant mash was invented in 1962 by Edward A. Asselbergs

and saignant is French for "very rare"

[nickmo]

saignant = bloody/rare (as in saignee = bleed)

Shochu or imo-jochu

U.S. Patent 1025373, titled "Dehydrate Potatoes and Process of Preparing the Same", and describing a product that was to be reconstituted in hot water, was applied for in 1905 and granted in 1912.