This fun foodie meme is via Omnivore Herbivore Carnivore via Very Good Taste. I am an adventurous eater for the most part – I’ll try anything once. I don’t know a lot of items on this list, or haven’t had access to them. I was 18 years old before I even tasted a bagel. It was pretty much all eastern North Carolina country food up until college. I add my personal comments in italics.
How It All Works:
1) Copy the 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
The 100
1. Venison (YUM! With grits and gravy – double yum!)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (I don’t know why – I’ve eaten similar dishes)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (I’ll eat alligator if I have another opportunity to buy it.)
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 (I’d try it in a heartbeat if offered.)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns (Eh, depends on the situation. I generally avoid pork from inhumane or unknown sources.)
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 (just a fingernail clipping-sized taste – whew!)
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 (ick)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (separately, not in combination.)
37. Clotted Cream Tea
38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O (would try to be polite, but otherwise I hate Jell-O.)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I’m sure that we all have by accident without knowing, but I can’t go there on purpose yet.)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (it originated 30 miles from here)
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 (uh, hell no.)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (I was very drunk and trying to appear as fearless as my dinner companion. I don’t remember the taste.)
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 (oh God, how horrible.)
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 (My Great Aunt Mildred got mad at someone once who shot a rattlesnake in such a way that he “ruined the meat.”)
How many have you eaten?
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