Thursday, August 28, 2008

How adventerous of an eater are you?

This was interesting. On my friend's blog (in my links, A Life Less Sweet) she posted a list she got from the blog Very Good Taste. It's a list of 100 varied foods he felt every good omnivore ought to try.

Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions.

Bold all items you've eaten.

Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

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. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi (Well, I'd tried lots of curries, many without sauce...so I GUESS is it similar.)
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (close to a stikeout...)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes That whole alcohol thing...
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (Never wild, but from my own garden, yes.)
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 big fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal --probably not, but I won't entirely rule it out.
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu Ah, no.
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
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 That whole tea thing...
80. Bellini Lots of alcohol on this list
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare...close to a strikeout...
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab..close to strikeout...
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor...again CLOSE to strikeout...
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

So, we learn that I am not very adventurous of an eater. And that I don't like fish. And that coffee, tea and alcohol will also make a lot of strikeouts.

2 comments:

cathy said...

I was about to question the catfish, but then saw your statement about how you don't like fish. Well, if you ever need a fish, catfish is a very mild, tasty fish!

Very fun! Glad that you did it too!

Cynthia said...

Some of those I wasn't even sure what they were. I haven't tried many meats besides the usual.
Your blog reminded me that I had fresh wild berries just this past week. A park I walk at grows fresh blackberries and raspberries and the blackberries are delicious. The raspberries are a little too hard.