Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Omnivore's Hundred

I found this over at our friend the Suburban Banshee's, and found it amusing. You bold what you have eaten and cross out what you'd never even consider eating. Since with this formatting I can't cross out, I'll italicize. Wow, some people have wild imaginations when it comes to food...

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (raw hamburger? ugh!)
5. Crocodile... um, perhaps...
6. Black pudding (I've eaten the Spanish version, fried. It's actually kinda good.)
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 cart16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - Does limoncello count?
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 headcheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche YES! GOTTA LOVE THE STUFF!!!!
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... I am no smoker...
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
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala... sounds good.
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin... um, no...
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...don't do it...
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake I Looooooove churros with chocolate...
68. Haggis... yuck
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu... I'm not suicidal...
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini... no, but why not, sometime...
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant... no, but sometime I might
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

3 comments:

Lucia Rosa said...

I'm #ing yeses and :< ing nevers. I haven't looked up the unfamiliar ones, so I might be adding more :< s later!

1. Venison#
2. Nettle tea#
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare:<
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding# (actually morcilla, which comes to the same thing)
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# (strawberry)
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 headcheese
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 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#
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores#3
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# (made it, too!)
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.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash#
88. Flowers# (honeysuckle)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish # (I think)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta ##
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Don’t worry if you don’t recognize everything in the hundred, Wikipedia has the answers!

Anonymous said...

Agnes, have you never had sauerkraut? It is amazing; you must try it! I haven't got much on you, but at least I've had venison, gazpacho, and wasabi peas. Like me, I can see you've tried but will never stomach another PB&J!

Agnes Regina said...

Yes! PB&J's are an infernal invention!