Grocery Market Word Play (from National Public Radio Sunday Puzzle)

This week, I would like to present the first weekend puzzle from NPR (National Public Radio). These puzzle questions might lack validity for EFL students whose learning settings are not the US ground, because the theme for the questions this week is brand names you find in American grocery store. Let us just give it a try though for fun. Here we go!

Every answer is the brand name of a food or beverage that you might buy at the grocery store.

   

   1.   Preserves — Consists of a word meaning "lollipops" around the letter M

   2.   Soup — Conceals the word OGRES in consecutive letters

   3.   Breakfast cereal — Is an anagram of WHITE SEA

   4.   Baking goods — Is an anagram of RUBY LIPS + L

   5.   Cookies — Spelled backward, is a two-word phrase meaning "betting

 everything"

   6.   Soft drink — Consists of four consecutive state postal abbreviations

   7.   Beer — Completes the phrase "older ___" in a punny way

   8.   Juice — Also names a kind of car engine

   9.   Beverage product — Hidden inside the phrase T-BONE STEAK

Answer Keys 

   

   1.  Smuckers

   

   2.  Progresso

   

   3.  Wheaties

   4.  Lays

   5.  Pillsbury

   

   6.  Coka Cola

   7.  Budweiser

   8.  V8

   9.  Nestea

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