The food quiz of the year: from vegan sausage rolls to chlorinated chicken
How well did you follow the gastronomic scandals and side eyes of 2019? Here’s your chance to find out
Boris Johnson’s diet consists solely of chlorinated chicken washed down with the salty tears of the disadvantaged. But in order to get himself elected he had to pretend to like normal things, too. What did he claim he couldn’t get delivered to Downing Street due to security concerns?
A Domino’s American hot pizza
Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper
A Thai green curry
A pot of Jeremy Corbyn’s damson jam
When Marc Veyrat’s restaurant La Maison des Bois was stripped of a Michelin star, he didn’t take it too well, bless. To what did he compare the experience?
Losing a girlfriend and the Champions League
Having to eat in a British restaurant
Falling in love with an uninterested pig
Being buried alive with a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish
It was the food hit of the year, largely because it made Piers Morgan cry. But what was the key ingredient in Greggs’ vegan sausage roll?
Soy protein mince
Quorn
Pureed jackfruit
Reconstituted potato starch
A video prank that joyously combined “food” with “er, is that child cruelty?” went viral this year – what did it involve?
Dipping your toddler’s feet in chocolate fondue
Making your child eat insects
Squirting jelly up your kid’s nostrils
Flinging cheese slices at your baby’s face
What did pub chain JD Wetherspoon add to its menu in October?
Limited-edition “Brexit bangers” to celebrate the EU divorce that never happened
A full range of British red wines
A meat-free burger to cater for its increasingly vegan clientele
Gammon-infused craft ale
Men used to tell women to get back in the kitchen. Now they want them out of it. For what reason did Marco Pierre White say he preferred male chefs?
They know how to use a knife properly
They drive faster, so turn up to work earlier
They can stomach working with raw meat
They handle pressure without getting emotional
No, it’s not a Richard Littlejohn fever dream: what did some London councils decide to ban this year?
Ice-cream vans
Any food items served on pieces of slate
Tips for waiting staff
Street food
The climate crisis was officially proven to be a bad thing this year thanks to which disturbing effect in the UK?
Chips were an inch shorter than normal
Corner shops reported a 200% increase in chocolate bars melting
Several restaurants closed citing the cost of air conditioning
A fivefold increase in spiders found in supermarket bananas
Meat from animals is sooo last year. And so, apparently, is meat from plants. So what did one ambitious Californian startup claim it could make meat out of this year?
Sheep faeces
Exhaust fumes
Insect energy
Thin air
There was an outbreak of “Sacré bleu!” on the patisserie scene when the new owners of Patisserie Valerie revealed which cost-cutting measure that had previously been in place at the beleaguered bakery?
Hiring patissiers with no formal training
Reheating croissants bought from a nearby supermarket
Using eggs that had gone up to a month past their best-before date
Using margarine instead of butter in the puff pastry
10 and above.
Perfect! You’ve been following Boris Johnson’s takeaway choices just to win this quiz and that’s not at all weird.
7 and above.
Congratulations – you know your meat-free meals from your Michelin-starred moaners.
0 and above.
Terrible. Clearly this world of meat-free sausage rolls and shrivelled chips has put you off food for good.
4 and above.
Middling. Butter, marge … it’s all the same thing to you, no doubt.