Cryptic Food & Drink Quiz

[SWEETPEA77]

Morning all!
I'm after some help on the following cryptic clues please...i'm totally stuck! The answers are all food & frink related and the numbers in the brackets indicate the amount of letters and words in the answer. Hope you can help! :o) xx

Dark Red (5,7)
Get in a sticky mess (3)
A small almost irrelevant thing (6)
A dog's class (8)
A grenade (9)
Icy Italian-sounding rock (7)
Inflate relative (7)
Governmental dessert (7,7)

[weecalf]

Small amount = Trifle

[valerieb1254]

Government dessert = Cabinet Pudding.

[SWEETPEA77]

trifle! of course it is - what a dope! LOL thanks

[SWEETPEA77]

i've never ever heard of cabinet pudding!! Crikey.
thanks

[valerieb1254]

Dark Red = Black Russian

[JUNKMAN]

2 jam
5 pineapple ?

[weecalf]

Grenade = pineapple

[weecalf]

Dark red =Blood pudding (black pudding)

[SWEETPEA77]

Pineapple - thats a good one! I'd been trying to make pomegranite fit somehow 'cos they look like hand grenades!!

[jonker]

6. Granita

[jonker]

7. Pumpkin

[SWEETPEA77]

I can't believe i didn't get "pumpkin" !! They are soooo obvious when you know the answer!!
thanks again everyone - u people are really good at this!

I still can't work out why grenade=pineapple though... how do you arrive at that??

[jonker]

'Pineapple' is army slang for a hand grenade. They do look a bit like a small pineapple, I suppose. Still can't get no. 4.

[SWEETPEA77]

still stuck on this blooming one....

A dog's class (8)

arrgghhhh its driving me nuts! lol