Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Food fun!

I've seen this exercise on a few blogs and copied it from Cathy. It looks like fun, and apparently everybody's doing it. On the original Andrew says: Here’s a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

How the Omnivore's 100 works:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.

2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.

3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

4) Optional: Post a comment at Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

I can't work out how to cross items out - the only two I would categorically not eat are 23 and 85. And probably not that dirty gin martini either.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding

7.
Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari

12. Pho
13. PBJ 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
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 $120 or more Oh I wish ...
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut

50. Sea urchin (kina)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone (NZ paua to be precise)
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
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. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu
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

What about you?

5 comments:

Uncle Les said...

HI. This is Les from "Child of the Wind". I am on Facebook; look for Les Chatwin if you use FB.

Otherwise can you email me at lchatwin@gmail.com - i try and get to Sydney at least once every 5 or 6 weeks to meet my academic supervisor and would love to meet for coffee.

Jan said...

Interesting list. What is haggis? And how did snake taste?

Mavis said...

Haggis is a scottish 'dish' - seasoned offal stuffed into a sheep's stomach and boiled. Quite a lot of herbs, onions and oatmeal which give a strong flavour. Surprisingly tasty. I also had a vegetarian version in Edinburgh that was delicious. At a conference in Western Australia a few years ago we were served a carnivore dinner that seemed to exist only of Australian animals. From memory the snake was in sausages and was fairly bland.

Patrick C said...

I'm quite fond of haggis as well!

Jan said...

MJD--thanks for the food descriptions. I've always read about "haggis" in books. My mother's mother was from Scotland, but immigrated to Canada.

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