Nylonthread tagged me with a fun meme, which I've been meaning to do, anyway, and so appreciate the nudge. Very Good Taste (via Postbourgie and Ezra Klein) gave a list of food items, plus the following instructions:
- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
- Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
- Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
- Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile [Wait, does alligator count?]
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15.
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis [I tried to have haggis when Todd and I went to Scotland years ago, but it was during the mad cow disease scare. Sadly, there was no haggis to be found.]
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
If anyone could help me out with the things not bolded or crossed off the list, I'd be much obliged.
9 comments:
You need help with what these things are? And here I was impressed with what you've done already. :)
I had to look up a lot of them myself, so I might be off here. Black pudding is actually blood sausage, which turns black from the high iron content in the blood. Clotted cream tea is like an English scone with a creamy-butter spread.
And no hostess fruit pie? I don't blame you. I got food poisoning from a lemon one back in college. Never Again!
As you know, I'm not really a fan of fruit in general. So it's not that I wouldn't eat a hostess fruit pie, but if I'm going to spend the calories, I'd much rather it was on a cupcake.
Next party: assorted cheeses, black pudding, and clotted cream tea for everyone!
Done! Whole Foods has clotted cream and Canales Meats at Easter Market has black pudding. It's mostly oatmeal filler soaked in blood, so it's kinda like a Granola bar that's been used to mop up a crimescene.
Love this list...makes me want to try more things. I have never had Carp! What does it taste like? They are ugly so hopefully taste better than they look.
I had frog legs as a kid and loved them! And I agree...cupcake over a fruit pie!
Monkey, I knew I could count on you!
RW, I can't remember. I ordered it because it was misprinted as "crap." There's a lot on the list that I should revisit.
Wonderful wide ranging palate you have. But no more frog legs, please. Just remember all the little frogs on crutches . . .
Oh, I so loved hot dogs off of the street carts when I worked in San Francisco. I'd still eat one, but I'd never let the kids have one. (Like I'm the iron stomach woman.)
What a heck of a list of the foods you have had. Puts my life to shame. Or at least my food life.
Wow, never a hot dog off a street cart? SMART. Did you once have one and totally throw it up, thus crossing off all future possibilities, or just know enough to avoid them in the first place?
Favorite item on this list? Least fave?
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