Foods that Start with S

Based on a picture, can you name these foods that start with the letter S?
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French
often made with veal
the seeds on this bun
Sesame Seeds
also known as emmental
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Level 82
Oct 20, 2020
The difference between sugar snap peas and snow peas is pretty minimal... I would recommend accepting either one.
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Level ∞
Oct 20, 2020
Snap pea / sugar snap pea will work now.
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Level 81
Oct 24, 2020
But sugar snaps (as they're called in the UK) still doesn't work! (no one calls them sugar snap peas)
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Level 83
Nov 1, 2020
^ I call them mangetout, I've hardly ever heard anyone use 'sugar snap' or 'snow pea'
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Level 77
Jan 17, 2021
Snow peas tend to be called "mangetout" in the UK (in Waitrose and Tesco, at any rate). What are called "sugar snap peas" are visibly thicker.
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Level 79
Jan 18, 2021
^ this
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Level 91
Jun 29, 2021
Sugar snap peas look a whole lot more like soybeans than they do snow peas.
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Level 59
Jan 17, 2021
really? interesting. I think they are totally different. snow peas are thin, and sugar snaps are thick.
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Level 85
Oct 20, 2020
The sage photo you use doesn't seem very representative of the photos that show up when you do a Google image search for "sage". For one thing, most of the latter have leaves much more elongated than in the former. For a second thing, your photo obscures the coarse texture of sage leaves that is more visible in the Google photos.
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2021
It was pretty obviously sage to me. That's about what my sage plant looks like.
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Level 88
Oct 20, 2020
It would be helpful to use an image of sesame seeds that included an indication of scale. I was trying to find a name for much larger seeds, for example, sunflower seeds! 😊
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Level ∞
Oct 22, 2020
Done!
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Level 88
Oct 22, 2020
Perfect! Thank you so much. Cheers from Downunder, Nadine
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Level 83
Oct 21, 2020
The schnitzel picture also looks very similar to pictures of scaloppini.
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Level 75
Oct 21, 2020
That's what I kept trying. And thought I was spelling it wrong. Then it dawned on me, try schnitzel.
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Level 80
Oct 21, 2020
Doesn't look like any schnitzel I've ever eaten :)
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Level ∞
Oct 22, 2020
I just Googled pictures of schnitzel and it all looks like what's in this quiz, but pictures of scaloppini look different. Also, the schnitzel in this quiz looks like every schnitzel I've every had, including in Austria. What am I missing?
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Level 81
Apr 22, 2023
It's at best a very unflattering image of one
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Level 34
Oct 21, 2020
Not everyone is from the U.S, please accept edamame as well as soybean.
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Level 75
Oct 21, 2020
sedamame*
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Level 71
Oct 21, 2020
Edamame doesnt start with S though
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Level 69
Jan 18, 2021
Then edamame have no place being in this quiz! Have never called them soybeans and was trying all sorts of things inc soya beans etc while still thinking 'but they're edamame'.
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Level 63
Apr 23, 2023
Well, tough luck. That's how it is sometimes.
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Level 81
Mar 16, 2023
That's a Japanese word. Although Japanese is spoken in the US, it's generally not considered "from the US". Also it doesn't begin with an 's'.
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Level 78
Oct 21, 2020
Sunflower seeds... I don't think those are sesame seeds.
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Level 79
Oct 25, 2020
They are.
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Level 83
Nov 1, 2020
Sunflower seeds are larger, with black and white stripes
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Level 82
Oct 21, 2020
I had problems with a few ... sage doesn't usually look like that around here - more narrow and pointy and greyish. Soybeans are practically never used fresh (green)
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Level ∞
Oct 22, 2020
Care to suggest a different sage picture? This particular sage looks exactly like the one on my balcony but I'm open to suggestions.
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Level 79
Jan 18, 2021
Mine is a salvia purpurea. Seen here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/319966748523739642/
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Level 70
Nov 2, 2020
Surely soya bean should have been acceptable. I don't know anyone who calls them soybeans.
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Level 59
Jan 17, 2021
I don't know anyone who calls them soya bean. I've only ever heard them called soybeans
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Level 44
Nov 10, 2020
Starfruit is also called carambola! Add this typein!
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2021
No!
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Level 59
Jan 17, 2021
that doesn't start with an S, though, soooo
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Level 35
Nov 20, 2020
That schnitzel looks very much like fish & chips.
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Level 68
Jan 17, 2021
The schnitzel looks just like one I would cook at home. And the sage plant looks like the one I have at home growing in my garden.
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Level 75
Jan 17, 2021
Surprised at how few knew soybeans. Maybe just comes with being a vegetarian.
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Level 59
Jan 17, 2021
I honestly thought the soybeans were sugar snap peas at first! But as an American, I typically would call that edamame. Once I realized that, I knew it was soybeans
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Level 79
Jan 18, 2021
yep, I agree CMC315, edamame are just immature soybeans blanched in salt water.
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Level 65
Jan 17, 2021
The seafood one had me thinking for a moment - then I remembered what other countries call prawns!
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Level 72
Jan 18, 2021
They are different animals
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Level 72
Jan 17, 2021
Am I the only one who doesn't know what samosa is? I was stunned to see 58% got it
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2021
I have only heard of it one maybe two times. One was a travel gameshow. Where the challenge was they had to find a local to make it for them. So I remembered it, but never heard of it before. (And I vaguely remember once since, where more people did seem to know it and I was huh how do you all know this. But maybe I dreamt that..)
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Level 68
Jan 17, 2021
Veg samosa is a must have starter at any Indian restaurant, imo. So good!
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Level 79
Jan 18, 2021
Samosas are delicious Indian snacks. They are very well-known in the UK, probably because of our large Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi communities, and that they feature on almost all "Indian" menus and take-aways.
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Level 69
Jan 24, 2021
I feel bad for you not knowing what they are. In the way that, you're missing out. They are delicious.
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Level 59
Jan 17, 2021
"Also known as Emmental" is misleading. Emmental is just one variety of several thousand different Swiss Cheeses. Would be better if it said "Emmental or Gruyere for example"
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2021
Agreed, it threw me for a second. Huh it has another name? Then I thought ah (example of) holey cheese.

edit I do not know though if gruyère is a Swiss cheese. Not questioning it, just do not have the knowledge (I know it is Swiss though).

I believe the Dutch Leerdammer and Maasdammer are both Swiss cheese for example

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Level 66
Jan 18, 2021
This clue was very misleading. Definitely needs to be reworded. To me, any cheese from Switzerland is Swiss cheese.
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Level 75
Jan 19, 2021
Got them all second time round. I did spend ages trying to think of the US name for watercress, then realised it isn't watercress...

BTW yes what's the deal with "Swiss Cheese"? Is that just what Emmental is called in the US then? Isn't e.g. Gruyere cheese also Swiss cheese?

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Level 34
Jan 21, 2021
Sushi is the best!
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Level 69
Jan 24, 2021
Fun reading the comments to see how regional some of the terms for food are.

That being said, where I come from the only schnitzel we see is pork. Took me a while to get that one.

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Level 76
Mar 10, 2021
accept spaghetto singular? according to your interesting facts, that’s a valid term, and the picture does contain more than one spaghetto
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Level 77
Jul 13, 2021
I could NOT think of scallop. I kept trying shallot...ugh
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Level 64
Sep 4, 2021
How come you accept sugar snap pea but not soya bean? In the UK it's soya, not soy
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Level 66
Jul 31, 2022
Please accept scollops for "scallop" - this is a correct term.

Never heard of soybean for edamame.

Schnitzel is with a variety of meats, not sure why veal is specified.

Swiss cheese is a bit of an odd one.

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Level 85
Apr 5, 2023
Schnitzel is sometimes made with Veal, but it's not common. I've only ever seen it as an option once. Pork is by far the most common meat.
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Level 81
Apr 22, 2023
A rather poor image for Schnitzel
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Level 71
Jan 2, 2024
Please could you accept "soya bean"?