8.29.2008

What have you eaten?

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

(yes) next to those I have eaten...

1. Venison (yes)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (yes)
4. Steak tartare (yes)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (scary, no)
7. Cheese fondue (yes)
8. Carp
9. Borscht (yes)
10. Baba ghanoush (yes)
11. Calamari (yes)
12. Pho (yes)
13. PB&J sandwich (yes)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (no, but alternate should be a stadium game hot dog!)
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns (yes)
20. Pistachio ice cream (yes, sadly)
21. Heirloom tomatoes (yes, happily!)
22. Fresh wild berries (yes)
23. Foie gras (yes)
24. Rice and beans (yes)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche (yes, and you must get the right kind! i can show you where to shop.)
28. Oysters (yes, raw and awesome!)
29. Baklava (yes)
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas (yes)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (yes!!)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (yes)
35. Root beer float (yes)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (?no thanks?)
37. Clotted cream tea (yes)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo (yes)
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (does cheese count?)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala (yes)
48. Eel (smoked eel is the best!)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (yes)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (yes)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone (yes)
54. Paneer (yes)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (yes, and I won't do that again.)
56. Spaetzle (yes, and I may not do that again, either.)
57. Dirty gin martini (yes)
58. Beer above 8% ABV (yes)
59. Poutine (no, but I would like to try it)
60. Carob chips (yes, sadly)
61. S’mores (yes, gladly!)
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (ay! no!)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs (yes)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (yes, with lots of toppings!)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain (yes, yum!)
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (yes)
71. Gazpacho (yes)
72. Caviar and blini (yes)
73. Louche absinthe (yes)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (yes)
78. Snail (yes)
79. Lapsang souchong (yes)
80. Bellini (yes)
81. Tom yum (yes)
82. Eggs Benedict (yes)
83. Pocky (yes, Yea for Pocky! I love strawberry the best.)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef (yes)
86. Hare (yes)
87. Goulash (yes)
88. Flowers (yes)
89. Horse (um, no.)
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (yes)
92. Soft shell crab (yes)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish (yes)
95. Mole poblano (yes)
96. Bagel and lox (yes)
97. Lobster Thermidor (yes)
98. Polenta (yes, often!)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake (this one, was it John who went camping and they found a snake and one of his friend's dad cooked it. That should be the only acceptable way to eat snake. Not, for example, in a restaurant. But caught while camping and cooked over the campfire. I've not eaten it.)

I think shark and homemade ice cream should be on this list, but I guess it is just 100, so some of them would have to be traded off. Maybe horse and, I don't know, nettle tea?