Saturday, September 13, 2008

OK, I'll Bite

Melissa had this on her blog so I got hungry.

The Omnivore's 100

The rules are:

1) Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here linking to your results.

And the list:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
(I think Alligator is close enough)
6. Black pudding
(and black sausage)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
(just had some last week)
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich

14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
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 (once was enough)
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 (do rice weevils and ants count?)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (no I will not play russian roulette with my food)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50.Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi (well, not the Japanese fruit, but the Chinese preserved plum)
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (maybe, it would have been in an Indian dish, I suppose)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (well, when I was a kid, I'll admit to eating this)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV (Bulgarian homemade people's beer)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (ah, smelly fruit, I've seen it in the oriental market)
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
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 (I don't remember, I think I may have tasted rattlesnake years ago)

OK to I can claim 81 for sure, 3 maybes and only one that I won't touch (fugu) although head cheese would probably rate a quick nibble.

Hubby ordered a stew of mixed veal parts while in Bulgaria last week. It had tongue, brain, tripe etc. I passed on tasting the brain. Don't want to get mad calf disease.

I was always an adventurous foodie. My mother took care to point out all the poisonous vegetation in the yard, lest I try a taste. I found out that water hyacinth really tastes yucky even if Manatees do eat it.

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