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Quiz: Do You Know Where These Iconic Global Foods Are From?

If You Get 16/20 On This Food Geography Quiz, You Have A High Culinary IQ

The iconic garbage plate is popular in upstate New York, particularly in Rochester. It's basically a plate loaded with fried potatoes, baked beans, sliced hot dogs, onions, mustard, and chili.

Upstate New York

Stroopwafel is a popular food in The Netherlands. It actually originated in the Dutch city of Gouda (you know, like the cheese). It's basically two very thin waffles stuffed with caramel filling. If you haven't enjoyed one with your morning coffee, you haven't lived.

The Netherlands

This comfort food is basically a cheesy tater tot casserole made with ground beef, canned soup, and some veggies, but in Minnesota everyone knows it as a tater tot "hotdish."

Minnesota

If you've never heard of hokey pokey ice cream, you probably aren't a kiwi. This popular flavor in New Zealand is plain vanilla ice cream with small chunks of honeycomb toffee.

New Zealand

While it originated in the Chinese province of Hainan, Hainanese Chicken Rice is now considered one of the national dishes of Singapore. It's simple yet delicious, made of poached chicken, seasoned rice and a trio of three sauces: chili sauce, ginger-garlic sauce, and sweet dark soy sauce.

Singapore

Borscht is a cold soup made of beets that is commonly eaten all over eastern Europe and Russia. It's a slavic and national dish that traces its roots to Ukraine and Russia.

Ukraine

This popular street food in Germany is made of pork sausage cut into bite sized pieces and smothered in curried ketchup. It's often served with fries as a quick street food.

Germany

A quintessential eat in the Big Easy, the Muffaletta was brought to New Orleans by Italian immigrants. It's Sicilian sesame bread stuffed with olive spread, sliced cheese, and cured meats like sopressata, capocollo, mortadella.

New Orleans

This chewy, savory cheese bread made with tapioca flour is a popular snack or breakfast food in Brazil.

Brazil

The Hawaiian take on Japanese onigiri, Spam musubi is made up of a slice of grilled Spam served with a block of sushi rice, all wrapped together with seaweed.

Hawaii

This traditional Scottish food is made with sheep offal, onions, and oats, and tastes like a crumble sausage. It's commonly served with mashed potatoes.

Scotland

Smørrebrød is a Danish open-faced sandwich served on buttered, dense rye bread and topped with anything from pickled herring or hard boiled egg to smoked salmon. Often Smørrebrød looks like a work of art and is _almost_ too pretty to eat.

Denmark

Most countries have their own version dumplings, and in Russia it's called pelmeni. Typically they're stuffed with ground meat and onions, boiled, and served with sour cream or butter.

Russia

Khachapuri is a Georgian national dish that is basically a cheesy bread boat. It's baked until the cheese is golden brown and bubbling.

Republic of Georgia

Bun Bo Hue is a Vietnamese spicy beef and rice noodle soup in a super savory broth made with lemongrass, ginger, and chiles.

Vietnam

One of the most iconic Malay dishes, Nasi lemak is made of fluffy coconut rice served with fried anchovies, peanuts, sambal sauce, and other toppings like hard boiled egg and cucumber.

Malaysia

This old-fashioned, three-ingredient Australian snack is just bread with butter, margarine, and tons of tiny sprinkles. It's usually cut into triangles.

Australia

This Egyptian dish — a popular street food — is a sort of clean-out-the-fridge recipe made with rice, chickpeas, macaroni and lentils all topped with spicy tomato sauce and fried onions.

Egypt

The national dish of South Africa, Bobotie (pronounced ba-boor-tea) is essentially a casserole of ground, curried meat topped with a milk and egg mixture.

South Africa

Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish that uses fried, unripe plaintains as the main ingredient. The plantain is cooked with chicharrón and garlic, mashed, and often served with a protein like shrimp or pork.

Puerto Rico

You've got a lot to learn when it comes to cuisines and dishes from around the world. So try shaking up your routine and introduce some new flavors from different countries and cultures into your diet. You never know when you'll find your new favorite dish.

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn eating tortillas.

You're not the most adventurous eater.

When it comes to international food, you know a thing or two. You've probably traveled a bit, or at least you're open exploring and trying lots of different cuisines. Want to take your international food IQ to the next level? Get even more adventurous with your eating and try some new recipes inspired by places around the world.

You're pretty well-versed in international cuisine.

It's obvious that given your knowledge of global cuisine, you're well traveled, cultured, and you've got an adventurous palate. Good for you!

Blake Shelton and Jimmy Fallon eating sushi.

You're a world traveler.

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People Are Sharing The One Food That Gives Away Where They're From. Can You Guess The Right Answers?

Let's play a game to test your knowledge of food from all around the world. Redditor u/itsfuckingpizzatime asked, "Only using food, where do you live?" and there were a ton of responses. So, can you guess the country or state associated with these iconic foods?

People Are Sharing The One Food That Gives Away Where They're From. Can You Guess The Right Answers?

Let's play a game to test your knowledge of food from all around the world. Redditor u/itsfuckingpizzatime asked, "Only using food, where do you live?" and there were a ton of responses. So, can you guess the country or state associated with these iconic foods?

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