Funistrada

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Funistrada is a fictitious food item. The term was inserted in a U.S. Army survey of soldiers circa 1974 [1] regarding their food preferences. Funistrada, along with a fake vegetable dish called "buttered ermal" and a fake meat dish called "braised trake", was inserted "to provide an estimate of how much someone will respond to a word which sounds like a food name or will answer without reading." [2]

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Funistrada scored higher in popularity than eggplant, lima beans, and cranberry juice. [3] [4] All three fake items, however, had the highest percentage of "never tried" responses. [5]

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  1. ↑ "Armed Forces Food Preferences" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 26, 2022.
  2. ↑ Armed Forces Food Preferences Archived 2022-12-26 at the Wayback Machine p. 4
  3. ↑ "» Funistrada, the Army's 'Ghost Food' - Entropic Memes". www.slugsite.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  4. ↑ Davidson, Alan. "Funistrada." The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  5. ↑ Armed Forces Food Preferences Archived 2022-12-26 at the Wayback Machine p. 54
  6. ↑ Bryson, Bill (1990). The Mother Tongue. London, UK: Hamish Hamilton. p. 77. ISBN   0-380-71543-0.
  7. ↑ "CHOW: A Cook's Tour of Military Food by Paul Dickson - Kirkus Reviews". kirkusreviews.com.
  8. ↑ "Trattoria Funistrada". 16 May 2024.
  9. ↑ Equibase.com. "Equibase - Profiles". equibase.com.


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