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Foods that Start with A

Based on a picture, can you guess these foods and drinks that start with the letter A?
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Last updated: June 9, 2020
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First submittedMay 8, 2012
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Andouille Sausage
Star Anise
Anjou Pear
Alfalfa sprouts
Acorn Squash
American name
British name
Plant from which tequila is made
Comes from Brazil
Blue agave
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Level ∞
Jun 9, 2020
This used to be a text quiz but I converted it into a picture quiz.
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Level 64
Jun 9, 2020
Couldn't spell 'andouille' for the life of me so figured I was wrong. Nope, just can't spell.
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Level 84
Jun 9, 2020
Today I learned that there's an e in anise.
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Level 38
Jun 21, 2020
I learnt there's an e in absinth.
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Level 69
Jun 23, 2020
There's actually a difference - it depends on where it's manufactured, much like whiskey vs whisky. Sans 'e' usually means central/eastern Europe, Bohemian style. With 'e' usually means western Europe/elsewhere (typically France).

If it isn't already, the answer should be accepted without the 'e' (I can't recall if it did).

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Level 81
Jun 22, 2020
There's an e in a nephew too.
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Level 83
Jun 9, 2020
did animal crackers not have chocolate on them ?. I think the cadbury version in Europe did.
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Level 84
Jun 9, 2020
Not in the U.S. The ones in the photo look exactly like the ones I had as a kid in the 1970s.
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Level 73
Jun 21, 2020
I tried cookies, biscuits, then moved on to the other pictures. Never had them but I've seen them.
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Level 72
Jun 23, 2020
Should have tried "a cookie", "a biscuit"...
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Level 81
Jun 10, 2020
i sense we are going to get a lot more quiz resets into picture formats now... can't keep up
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Level 25
Jun 10, 2020
Aubergine and Andouille were the easiest for me as a French speaker :)... Also I always say "Aspargus"... just learnt it's "AspaRAgus"... my English is getting better! :)
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Level 71
Jun 12, 2020
I always thought that tequila was made from the leaves, but I found out that all the leaves are chopped off and the bulbous base of the agave holds a soccer-ball size of white pulp.
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Level 84
Jun 12, 2020
As fas as I remember: the leaves can be used to create clothes and paper. Also, during the Prehispanic Era, the leaves were turned into thatch for the humble houses.
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Level 66
Jun 21, 2020
It's made from worms.
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Level 69
Jun 21, 2020
The word for aubergine went straight out of my head, and I live in the UK...
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Level 64
Jun 21, 2020
wow... real hard one. Even in French I didn't know about half of them
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Level 73
Jun 21, 2020
I enjoy the picture quizzes. Thank you for converting the quiz.
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Level 89
Jun 21, 2020
Seconded. Made it easier for me.
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Level 72
Jun 21, 2020
I never knew there was another name for arugula. Good thing this wasn't a letter R quiz. I never would have gotten rocket.
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Level 68
Jun 22, 2020
I'm the opposite! I only knew it as rocket, and have never heard of arugala.
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Level 35
Jun 21, 2020
I'm really out here writing "aggplant" because I had no clue
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Level 68
Jun 22, 2020
In New Zealand we call abalone the Maori name paua. But I knew the answer from reading the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins".
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Level 68
Jun 22, 2020
In New Zealand I have never seen acorn squash (and never heard of it). We have something that looks very similar called buttercup.
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Level 75
Jun 22, 2020
I've seen buttercup squash but never grown it. I grew acorn squash once but they were too hard to cut open and I found them stringy and less flavorful than butternut. Someone suggested poking holes in them and baking them whole in the oven, but I even had trouble gouging a few holes in them. Maybe I should trying growing buttercup - do you recommend them? If I'm lucky I might get a couple before the squash bugs and squash vine borers decimate them.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
@ander217 You just poke them with a fork to make the holes. Acorn is okay, but kabocha is where it's really at if you want a great nutty orange flesh squash. You can bake, roast, steam or stew it, and the entire skin is completely edible so it's less work.
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Level 62
Jun 28, 2020
I've never seen it either. My first thought was 'butternut', then I thought, 'this is an A quiz'.
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Level 28
Jun 23, 2020
Allspice... I mean seriously!
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
Some sense of scale would help, like an image of allspice in a spoon. I was peering at the magnified image wondering, what in hell are those! :P
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Level 50
Jun 25, 2020
Allspice was easy, how did people not get it?
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Level 88
Sep 13, 2020
It didn't occur to me. Not sure that I'd ever actually seen allspice before.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
It was a question of scale for me. I'm very familiar with allspice, but I thought it was some kind of berry or fruit because there was no size referent.
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2021
I am embarrassed to admit how old I was when I learnt that allspice is its own spice, and not a blend of "all" spices.
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Level 52
Jul 3, 2020
15 of these I've never heard of. The remaining 5 were easy
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Level 78
Jul 10, 2020
The andouille is misleading for a European, because a French andouille is a large andouillette and it doesn't resemble the Louisiana style andouille sausage at all.

Still, it's all about the learning, and I have done that.

I had never heard of or seen an acorn squash either.

Thanks to Lenny and George for knowledge of alfalfa.

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Level 83
Jul 16, 2020
Wait... allspice isn't an American term for mixed spices?? Oops
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Level 22
Oct 21, 2020
Nice quiz, some of them i forgot tho
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Level 79
Oct 25, 2020
I tried 'animal biscuits' and 'animal cookies' for animal crackers.
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Level 54
Oct 26, 2020
I thought that was an asian pear!
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
No, those are round. And delicious. Also called 'apple pears'.
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Level 52
Nov 11, 2020
I was thinking, “I don’t know any other pears than the D’Anjou pear.” Didn’t know it was also known as an Anjou pear.
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Level 74
Dec 15, 2020
For what it's worth, the d' just means of or from.
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Level 44
Dec 7, 2020
I swear alfalfa sprouts is called kress in England
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Level 75
Dec 30, 2020
Cress yeah, it's delicious!
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2021
That is really a terrible picture for andouille sausage.
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Level 67
Aug 1, 2021
I got acai by typing in Asia cuz I was thinking of Asian Pear
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Level 51
Dec 27, 2021
Please accept "anju" for anjou
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Level 67
Jul 27, 2022
Dang--all I could think of was "wormwood!" Absinthe really does make the heart grow...