• Question: What is your favourite food and colour

    Asked by pinkmonster12345 to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 9 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by purple, marleyt, navkirand, slickaxel, libbygbgb, ethantheamazing, dom1234, jacksmith, marshy007, 69alltheway, bbrinded, yaqubh, gordonator.
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      Grant Campbell answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      To eat – chocolate! No contest!

      For more general interest beyond just eating – bread! Again, no contest. Bread is simply the world’s most important food, in terms of its influence on history and its ongoing importance now. As somebody has written “It is a much more serious task to write history in terms of bread than of battles.” Somebody else wrote “Bread reigned over the ancient world: no food before or after exerted such mastery over men”, while Socrates said of wheat (from which bread is made) “No man qualifies as a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat”. You learn a lot about the world, including history, politics, technology and science, when you learn about wheat and bread. Bread is also extremely complex (largely because of its aerated structure), and so extremely challenging and interesting to try to study as a scientist.

      Favourite colour – the colour of the inside of my eyelids when I’m asleep!

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      Julie Bland answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Hi Pink Monster,
      Cheese, I am really lucky to study the food I love! Especially part of my job is to eat a lot of it, which is sometime difficult at 8 in the morning :). Also there so many different varieties and ways of preparing it, you never get bored!
      My favourite colour would be green which represent nature.

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      Nik Watson answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Favourtie food depends on my mood but you cant really go wrong with steak or pir or pizza.
      Favourite colour is red today

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      Duncan Gaskin answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Don’t have one favourite, I like lots of things. Chocolate is good, can’t beat a nice steak sometimes and a bacon sandwich………. yum!

      As for colour, I’ve had a lot of white cars.

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      Rachel Edwards-Stuart answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Favourite food would be impossible to say – I have so many, and it slightly depends on how good the ingredients are and how well it has been made!
      Colour is much easier to answer (maybe because I am not an artist I feel I can have a favourite – red is my favourite colour).
      But one thing I love is how you can really easily trick people with colour and flavour – if you add green food dye to a lemon flavoured drink, everyone is convinced it is lime. And dye strawberry juice black – no one can tell what flavour it is! They even fooled wine tasters in France this way, making them think white wine was red!

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