Omnivore's Hundred Meme

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Lifted from fjorlief

 

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) Italize things you would like to try.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare ugh, I can't even eat rare beef.
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari mmmmmm!!!!
12. Pho I've got a lemongrass allergy...
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart uuuugggghhhh.  As if hot dogs aren't bad enough, we have to introduce the street cart possibility?  blet.
16. Epoisses  ...maybe.
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns too too delicious!
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras also, blet.
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper  ...why?  They're not notoriously flavorful, just notoriously hot.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters never again, gross gross gross gross.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi though I prefer the sweet rosewater variety
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar  ...eeww.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O  I'm a jello purist, and I HATE vodka.  blet.
39. Gumbo I wish it didn't have okra and shrimp.
40. Oxtail good in soup.
41. Curried goat oh, yum!
42. Whole insects  Does the ant population in Eugene count?  I remember a certain tabbouleh at

corvideye's house that was very, very anty.  Also, various bugs end up in salad.  I don't think I've ever eaten them on purpose...
43. Phaal well, I'd try it, 'cause I like spicy things, though things that are gratuitously spicy with little other flavor seem not to be worth it, really.
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut YUCK.
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone  All I hear about this from Bill makes it sound like the best treat ever. 
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal Yeah, when I was a kid...
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini  "dirty"?! plus, gin tastes like cat pee.
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads My grandfather always wanted me to try them.  NO.
63. Kaolin There's a farm here that sprays their apples with it.  It's more or less flavorless if you don't wipe it all off. 
64. Currywurst
65. Durian I withhold full judgement until I've smelled 'em.
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette What, like chitlins?  Another food my grandfather always wanted me to eat.  NO.
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini  I thought it was blackberry jam.  *sad, salty, over-fishy tear*
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill  see "venison" and "hare"
76. Baijiu sounds too much like vodka.
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail  a successful attempt by my grandmother to get me to try one of her favorite treats.  Rubbery garlic butter.
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini might be all right.
81. Tom yum  see sad story about lemongrass allergy.
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three--star restaurant.  What does this mean?
85. Kobe beef  Cows.  Are supposed.  To eat.  GRASS.
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse No longer legal in this state, can you believe it?
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam  My grandmother got me to try snails, but not this crap!
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox  Lox is so yucky.  What did the poor salmon ever do to deserve such treatment?
97. Lobster Thermidor  Lobster isn't very interesting.
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

 

60/100, and a few I haven't tried.  Not too bad.  I will try damn near anything, despite the few things on here that I vehemently won't try.  No organ meats!  Flargh!  Bugs?  Sure.