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:

  1. 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!

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  2. 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!

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

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