Wednesday, December 17, 2008
100 foods
I stole this from T-Dawg, who also stole it.
1- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2- Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3- Cross out any item that you would never consider eating. (I italized them because it was easier).
4- Optional extra – post a comment linking your results.
The VGT Omniovore’s Hundred:
1- Venison
2- Nettle tea
3- Huevos rancheros
4- Steak Tartare
5- Crocodile (technically no, but I’ve eaten alligator)
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- Hotdog 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 (it sounds gross, but I’d probably eat it if nobody told me what it was)
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-
37- Clotted cream tea
38- Vodka jelly/Jell-o
39- Gumbo
40- Oxtail
41- Curried goat
42- Whole insects
43- Phaal (not sure if I’d eaten this, but I’ve had some kind of Indian curry dishes before)
44- Goat’s milk
45- Malt whiskey from a bottle worth $120 or more (thanks Pop-Pop, however, yuck.)
46- Fugu
47- Chicken tikka masala
48- Eel
49- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (hells yea. Hot ones too)
50- Sea urchin
51- Prickly pear
52- Umeboshi (but the girls on
53- Abalone
54- Paneer
55- McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56- Spaetzle
57- Dirty gin martini (I don’t like olives, but I’ve tried one)
58- Beer above 8% ABV
59- Poutine
60- Carob chips
61- S’mores
62- Sweetbreads
63- Kaolin (everything I read says it’s clay, which I haven’t eaten, but that it’s also in toothpaste and it’s a food additive, so I’m saying yes)
64- Currywurst
65- Durian
66- Frogs’ legs
67- Beignets, churros, elephants ears or funnel cake (yes to all)
68- Haggis
69- Fried plantain
70- Chitterlings or andouillette
71- Gazpacho
72- Caviar and blini (it’s gross, and I had it on crackers not blini)
73- Louche absinthe
74- Gjetost or brunost
75- Roadkill
76- Baijiu
77- Hostess fruit pie
78- Snail (tried one – bleh)
79- Lapsang souchong
80- Bellini
81- Tom yum
82- Eggs Benedict
83- Pocky
84- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (I don’t do tasting menus, I eat)
85-
86- Hare (on a pizza, no less)
87- Goulash
88- Flowers (in salads)
89- Horse
90- Criollo chocolate
91- Spam
92- Soft shell crab
93- Rose harissa
94- Catfish
95- Mole poblano
96- Bagel and lox (no fish!)
97- Lobster thermidor
98- Polenta
99- Jamaican blue mountain coffee
100- Snake
I thought I had a pretty good mix of stuff I’ve tried and stuff I would try. If you look at it, just about all of my “no’s” are fish related. And things coming out of the ocean are gross. Although I’ve eaten sushi on occasion…and I like calamari.