100 Things to Eat

[spudtater]

The Omnivore's Hundred, from the Very Good Taste blog

Bold = Yup
Normal = Nope
Strike = Hell, no
Italic = Really Should

1. Venison
2. Nettle Tea... or some sort of nettle-based drink, anyway
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare — NOM NOM NOM
5. Crocodile — fishy chickeny
6. Black pudding — do not want
7. Cheese fondue — many, many times
8. Carp — not that I can remember, anyway
9. Borscht — now there's a dish of variable taste
10. Baba ghanoush — bleugh, aubergine
11. Calamari — NOM NOM NOM
12. Pho — only the instant noodle kind, which really doesn't count
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart — not as good as real German frankfurter and a crusty roll, though
16. Epoisses — I've had Vacherin, though
17. Black truffle — I think I've had white. Too subtle for my liking
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes — thanks, Cairn o'Mohr
19. Steamed pork buns — a taste worth acquiring
20. Pistachio ice cream — now that brings back childhood memories
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries — wild strawberries, Germany
23. Foie gras — do not like liver, or paté, particular
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese — might try it someday. When I'm feeling brave
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche — proper Argentinian stuff, too
28. Oysters — NOM NOM NOM
29. Baklava — NOM NOM NOM. Best I ever had was in Iran. Sorry, Greece!
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas — NOM NOM ARGH MY SINUSES
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut — NOM NOM NOM
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo — although I should source a more authentic version than Mamma's
40. Oxtail — I assume chunks in soup counts
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects — no, spiders swallowed while asleep doesn't count
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more — arguably, at a tasting session
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala — meh
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear — from an Egyptian street vendor
52. Umeboshi — possibly
53. Abalone
54. Paneer — not to my knowledge
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV — Duvel, Orkney Skullsplitter
59. Poutine — last time I want to actually feel my heart racing
60. Carob chips — bleugh
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads — turned down the offer of a taste
63. Kaolin — errr... the mineral?
64. Currywurst
65. Durian — chickened out, to my shame
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis — on a regular basis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette — nah, wouldn't be able to
71. Gazpacho — my mum's recipe is the best
72. Caviar and blini — fantastically tasty fish eggs, horrid little stale pancakes. why?!
73. Louche absinthe — although I drink ouzo this way
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill — no thank you
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie — what's this obsession with US snack foods?
78. Snail — tastes mainly of the garlic used to drown out the taste of the snail
79. Lapsang souchong — unless I had it at a synod
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum — how have I avoided this? Again, tom yum-flavoured instant noodles don't count
82. Eggs Benedict — meh
83. Pocky — the fantastically-named "Men's Pocky" is the best
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant — not my scene
85. Kobe beef — disappointing
86. Hare
87. Goulash — not anything approaching real goulash
88. Flowers — I was bored...
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate — not to my knowledge
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa — not with roses, anyway
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano — Viva Mexico on Cockburn Street does a good one
96. Bagel and lox — I think I might, or it might have just been smoked salmon
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee — maybe
100. Snake

I make that exactly half. Must try harder.

I do worry that I sound like a bit of a ponce from the above list. Caviar, oysters, kobe beef! Bloody hell. I guess this is something I can thank my father for — he was always keen to get us to try interesting (and sometimes expensive) stuff, even if just the once.

Comments

[brucec.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just me but I had caviar at Christmas and it really didn't seem very special - and the dinner that followed was atrocious :/
I don't imagine Kobe beef being very nice either - isn't it specially bred to be really fatty? I think it sounds quite unpleasant.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I think caviar might only appeal to people who enjoy oily fish generally. How do you get on with anchovies, for example?

As for Kobe beef, I'll admit that a certain amount of fat in beef is vital to generate a complete taste. However, some people seem to obsess over the taste of fat at the expense of other flavours. Because of its fattiness, Kobe beef tastes almost lamb-like. In hindsight, there was no way I was going to enjoy it, since lamb isn't a particular favourite of mine. Ah well — not like I had more than a few bites, anyway!

For some reason, after thinking about Kobe beef, I was having difficulty figuring out what the next entry, "hare" was. It wasn't until I brought up the Wikipedia page that I finally parsed it as an English word!

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with fresh roadkill. Cheapest way to get pheasant.

Deliberately aiming for the idiot birds is probably going too far...