{"id":7374,"date":"2023-03-29T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2023-03-29T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:28:41","slug":"barbados-national-dish-on-wheel-of-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/barbados-national-dish-on-wheel-of-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbados&#8217; National Dish on Wheel of Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why the sudden spike in interest about our national dish? Turns out it&#8217;s due to the popular Wheel of Fortune game show!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at barbados.org we received an email from Google advising of a significant change in top queries for our website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"566\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/national-dish-query.png\" alt=\"Email from google highlighting spike in queries on the national dish of Barbados\" class=\"wp-image-7375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/national-dish-query.png 566w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/national-dish-query-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was this, we wondered. <br>It didn&#8217;t take us long to discover that the island was the subject of a Wheel of Fortune puzzle on March 22nd in the<em> Food and Drink<\/em> category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheel-of-fortune-board.png\" alt=\"Wheel of Fortune board showing The National Dish of Barbados\" class=\"wp-image-7381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheel-of-fortune-board.png 900w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheel-of-fortune-board-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheel-of-fortune-board-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contestant Cory Houser successfully solved the puzzle and won himself over US $86,00 in cash and prizes for his appearance, including a trip to Barbados where he&#8217;ll be able to enjoy our national dish &#8211; <strong>Cou Cou and Flying Fish<\/strong> &#8211; for himself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/barbados-recipes-cou-cou.htm\"><strong>Get the recipe for yourself!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/barbados-recipes-cou-cou.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coucou-flying-fish.jpg\" alt=\"Cou cou and flying fish served on a plate\" class=\"wp-image-7384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coucou-flying-fish.jpg 280w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coucou-flying-fish-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the sudden spike in interest about our national dish? Turns out it&#8217;s due to the popular Wheel of Fortune game show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,54],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}