It has been ages since we have had a meme around here! And since I have been including many food related posts, this one seems rather apt! It comes from Very Good Taste which is a great blog about food and stuff!
Here’s what I want you to do:
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 here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
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 (it was at College, ok!)
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 more (but I am willing to accept donations towards achieving this!)
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
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 (maybe! Not willing to cross it out, but then again…)
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. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (This is definitely on my list to do though!)
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
OK! So I am an adventurous eater (58/100), but there are plenty of things on the list I have not eaten but do hope to try! How do you score? Post your results to your blog, link to www.verygoodtaste.co.uk but also let me know here how you go! Oh and yes, there is only one thing on the list I probably won’t try! And I have eaten a Four and Twenty Pie and many people say they contain horse meat…
August 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Fiona,
I have eaten all but 8 of those, and some of them may be due to me not knowing. Good list!
PS: Horse tastes like, well, horse. You aren’t missing much.
Cheers, Andrew
August 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
See http://www.martin-english.com/whatsup/2008/08/the-omnivore-100/
My bigges problem is I tend to judge whether something is going to be ncie by the look of it, rather than the name….So I may have eaten some mroe stuff on the list and not known it
August 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Have eaten 50/100. Poutine – glad it is on the list. As for the haggis my mother made it on Robbie Burns day one year and we all had to have a go. The cat enjoyed it the most
One food that I *have* had that isn’t on there: deep fried ants. The city of Bucaramanga Columbia specialises in serving hormigas – giant ants. I did give em a go. Buttery and crunchy all at once.
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