It’s a Friday night and I’m not in Madrid or Istanbul or anywhere else for that matter. I’m sitting in my flat catching up on the blogosphere, decompressing from three weeks of a bit too much fun, really. (And the cycle is about to repeat itself.)This gal has got to get some rest. So I’m going to do The Omnivore’s Hundred…a very clever traffic-building tactic if I do say so myself…
How it 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 extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results
My results? I’ve eaten 77 of these…and about the only thing I wouldn’t touch is Fugu and a fat cigar. Together or separately.
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. 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
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 more46. 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
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (I saw a TV show about eating roadkill once. If it was nice roadkill and if I were hungry, I’d eat it.)
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 (I feel like I have had horse before. I just can’t remember where.)
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
4 comments
Ah, i just posted this myself! It’s been very interesting to see it doing the rounds.
Of the ones you’re missing, only umeboshi and fancy scotch are really worth going out of your way for, and most people probably will hate umeboshi at least on a first try.
I had prickly pear gelato not long ago, which was great because of the super magenta color, but the flavor is just kind of nondescript sweet fruit.
Gjetost and durian: both plain nasty, with durian by far the worse of the two. I like acquired tastes, but I’m not even hoping to acquire those.
I think you would have tried horse if u have ever had chorizo! Its usually high in horse content, and some supermarkets in the uk were in trouble about it a few years back. but if you ever have it in france/spain then you defo have!
Ugh I only managed 61 – I would however say that Black Pudding is awesome if its properly made, that and White Pudding – not from a greasy spoon but a proper breakfast place
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