Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Omnivore's 100

This began at Andrew's Very Good Taste Blog

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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.
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The 100

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile [maybe it was 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. Hot dog from a street cart


16. Epoisses

17. Black truffle (although I don't remember it)

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
[peach, homemade by a chef friend]

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes

22. Fresh wild berries (a staple!)


23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans


25. Brawn or head cheese (yeah, as a kid, forced to)

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (raw? definitely cooked but not raw)

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters

29. Baklava


30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (in 1976, yeah)

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut


35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar 

37. Clotted Cream Tea 

38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O (college party)

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects (cricket)

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

50. Sea urchin


51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi

53. Abalone 

54. Paneer

55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal (1975? did they exist then?)

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 (rabbit? well, yes, then)

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