Food Meme
This is a list of 100 foods that every omnivore should eat sometime in their life. The idea is to bold the ones you've eaten. I got this from Random Musings from the Desert
- Venison (see #75)
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile
- Black pudding (a/k/a blood sausage)
- Cheese fondue
- Carp
- Borscht
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses (Je t'aime smelly cheese!)
- Black truffle
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- Steamed pork buns
- Pistachio ice cream
- Heirloom tomatoes
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (did not actually eat whole pepper)
- Dulce de leche
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda
- Wasabi peas
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut
- Root beer float
- Cognac with a fat cigar (handrolled is best)
- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly/Jell-O -Shots
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects (anything is good if there is a thick enough chocolate coating)
- Phaal (My brother talked me into it. Now he won't eat anything hotter than a Rolaid)
- Goat’s milk
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
- Fugu
- Chicken tikka masala
- Eel
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi (Judy's office is in LA's Little Japantown)
- Abalone
- Paneer
- McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
- Spaetzle
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV
- Poutine (Je t'aime Montreal)
- Carob chips
- S’mores
- Sweetbreads
- Kaolin (Kaopectate)
- Currywurst
- Durian
- Frogs’ legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- Haggis
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings, or andouillette
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini
- Louche absinthe (this is absinthe clouded with water, right?)
- Gjetost, or brunost
- Roadkill (no, not a squirrel. I hit a deer and got to keep it. It was a very expensive meal or 8)
- Baijiu
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- Snail
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini (You can get one with your burger at Harry's for about $75, all up.)
- Tom yum
- Eggs Benedict
- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (French Laundry -- rocks!)
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers
- Horse (I was just in a retaurant in Verona that offered Cavallo carpaccio -- I passed)
- Criollo chocolate
- Spam
- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa
- Catfish
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- Snake
It is somewhat frightening how many of these I have done. Some are an addiction (bagels & lox) or a treat (sea urchin) or an over-the-top indulgence (French Laundry), but many if not most are pretty much one time things.
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