The Post Quiz: Famous Foodies - Answers
Created | Updated Dec 7, 2014
Let them eat cake…or Peach Melba.
Famous Foodies: Answers
Not all the people who had food named after them were famous. But we bet they all enjoyed it.
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Do you have culinary ambitions? (2legs, we're looking at you.) Name your dish after yourself, your nearest and dearest, or some opera singer you're stuck on. You can add to the lexicon.
1The play was called Thermidor, about the French Revolution.2Nelly Melba was a peach of a girl.3No, bison DON'T have wings.4Think Atkins Diet.5Okay, that's the official story. The reality is murkier, with candidates including the candymaker's baby granddaughter and a stealth advertising campaign involving famous baseball player Babe Ruth. It is a fact, however, that Otto Schnering, president of the company, dropped thousands of Baby Ruth bars over Pittsburgh in 1923. Each bar had its own little parachute.6To celebrate the Battle of Waterloo.7Mr Foster really liked bananas.8 His name was Bob Cobb.9Yep. His name was Sam German.10The pizza makes the colours of the Italian flag.
