CerebralDebris

My lovely fiancée Charlotte, who maintains a blog of her own (in french – venture forth if you dare), keyed me in to this blog post and I thought it was interesting. The Omnivore’s 100. I quote:

Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food – but a good omnivore should really try it all.

This is an idea I can get behind, and so I shall. Click upon the more link to check out the 100, including what I’ve eaten, what I’d like to eat, and what I’m too much of a wussbag to ever eat!

Here are the instructions included with the original post:

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) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

Here, then, are my answers. Remember: bold = have eaten, strikethrough = not interested. Everything else = I’ll get to it sooner or later! My comments are in (blue parens).

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison (Bambi bits!)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (not in this country anyway. American beef = raw sewage. Maybe sometime in France)
5. Crocodile (tastes like chicken)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (not a fan)
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (don’t dig hotdogs that much so hasn’t been a priority)
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle (only in Charlotte’s mom’s turkey recipe – which she says doesn’t count!)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns (mmmmm …)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (of many varieties!)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (oh, hell yes)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (probably too fiery for my tastes)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (but not raw)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (also chili!)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float (and a Coke float)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I like big maduros)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (boring)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (had it in soup)
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (goat cheese? Yes. Plain milk? Not yet)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (close, but not quite that pricey)
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (NOT a fan. Krispy Kreme = overrated)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (actually … I may have. Unsure)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (but not since I gave up fast food five years ago)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (good, but a non-dirty bone-dry gin martini with three olives is better)
58. Beer above 8% ABV (many times)
59. Poutine (I’ve also had sausage poutine, bacon poutine, and all-dressed poutine)
60. Carob chips (blech)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (yeh … it’s a rock. No thanks)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (had the chance, turned it down)
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (all four)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain (meh … take it or leave it)
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho (delicious, especially when chunky)
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe (not yet. Soon)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (not technically)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (Duh. American kid who grew up in the 80s, here …)
78. Snail (surprisingly boring)
79. Lapsang souchong (Charlotte loves it)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (Oh, my sweet, delicious pocky!)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (Not yet. Soon!)
85. Kobe beef (Not yet. Soon!)
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (Many opportunities … never had any interest)
92. Soft shell crab (only in sushi rolls)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish (fried catfish tacos at Bogota = so good)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox (but only a bite)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta (I beg Charlotte for her delicious polenta often!)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (I … may have had this and not known)
100. Snake (pretty much tastes like chicken)