Thursday, July 24, 2025

Guess Where This Dish Is From

Son Donald introduced me to Foodguessr, an interesting virtual game that tests your knowledge of world cuisines. The goal is to identify the country of origin of dishes from around the globe based on a photo and clues.

The first screen has a photo of the dish, the ingredients, and the basic description. Based on the information you type in where you think the dish is from. If you get the country wrong, it tells you how close to the correct country you are (on a hot/warm/cold scale) and what direction to move.

In each round there are five chances to come up with the right answer. After two incorrect guesses, the name of the dish is revealed. After five incorrect guesses, the answer is revealed.

The dishes range from easy (it only took me a few seconds to look at the photo and read the description of a brain sandwich to know it was from the United States) to hard (who knew that a dish called Potjiekos, with ingredients listed as meat, onions, vegetables [such as pumpkin, corn, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes], spices, cooking oil, dessert wine, and Dutch-Malay spices came from South Africa?) 

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15 comments:

  1. Well, I got the first dish right on the first try. After that, non-foody that I am, I of course sucked at this guessing game, but you find the coolest things to play with.

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    1. In this case I can't take credit for the find, but it is fun.

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  2. Interesting, but not a game I'd be any good at.

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  3. I love these sorts of games. Pretty sure my results won't be very good, but I'll have a good time playing.

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  4. Sounds like a fun game and perhaps might help me out when I am trying to come up with new dinner ideas. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Isn't it awful trying to figure out what to cook?

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  5. I doubt I would be able to guess the origins.

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  6. First try, 0/5. I was all around it. It was like playing battleships.

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    1. I may or may not pull up a map of the world to help me :-)

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  7. I guess watching my cooking shows paid off. I guessed the first one. We’ll see how I do the rest.
    I don’t have time for this. lol

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