Omnivore List Meme

[the_siobhan]

Rules

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.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

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. 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
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 head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects chocolate covered ants
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
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
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
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

You know, there ain't a whole lot I won't try at least once.

Comments

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

You've never had polenta, and yet managed to eat horse and snails and black puddin'?
How did that happen?

Not a fan myself. I'm not even really a fan of Cous Cous, but that's a bit like like never having eaten rice

I'm also wondering why anyone would want to eat Kaolin. It's a clay. Although there is a lot on this list I don't recognise, and some things I wish I didn't - like Chitterlings.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It never came up? Maybe because people are always saying, "Try this!" when it comes to horse and snails but polenta is just this thing that people eat. Except that I'd never even heard of it until I starting hanging around with people with Italian backgrounds.

Black pudding otoh, is a standard for Irish immigrant families. I'm always surprised when people haven't tried it.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

It never came up? Maybe because people are always saying, "Try this!" when it comes to horse and snails but polenta is just this thing that people eat.

I didn't even know what polenta was until I was 28. Then someone did push it on me, probably because they knew I'd never eat horse and snails.

Black pudding otoh, is a standard for Irish immigrant families. I'm always surprised when people haven't tried it.

Ugh.
I haven't. Probably never will.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The Wiki entry says Kaolin is an ingredient in stomach medicines. So I probably have eaten it.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

But it's clay. Damn curious. I assume the acids break it down eventually but... *dirt*

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Never known anybody with pica I take it?

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Until this moment I didn't even know it had a name.

[miss-bontemps.livejournal.com]

heh, Beer above 8% ABV, I'm sure I've breathed  it, being Canadian an' all . . .

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

8%?
The United Kingdom laughs at Canada:
http://www.brewdog.com/tokyo.php

18.2% ABV.

[miss-bontemps.livejournal.com]

only because I don't think it's legal here. Yet. ;)

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure it's legally beer.

(I have a homebrew recipe for a 21% beer, but I am too lazy to try it).

[miss-bontemps.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure it's legally beer.

I don't know why, but I laughed so damn hard when I read that. *grins*

[the_axel]

The Boston Beer Company laugh at Brewdog.

...in 2003 one batch of Utopias contained 25.6% abv, beating the records that Samuel Adams Triple Bock and Samuel Adams Millennium had set before it.

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

Tried to get a bottle of that once. The cheapest I found was $200. I love my beer, but I can buy a LOT of Oktoberfest for that price.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

This is my impressed face.
*impressed*

[miss-bontemps.livejournal.com]

oh, and, if you've ever applied lipstick, there's a chance you've ingested some roadkill. I remember some leftie telling me about what some companies consider an 'acceptable' amount of carrion/roadkill in their products. I guess it was supposed to horrify me, but I thought it pretty damn funny.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I've read some recipes for cooking roadkill on your engine block while you're driving. I've never had the nerve to try it.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

They should have a "Italicize the ones you've eaten but would never touch again" option, so I could have a way to say how I feel about Spam and snails.

I've eaten a lot of the list, too, but not all the same ones you have.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I love snails. Black pudding is like beach sand packed in lard.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Blini are those tiny pancakes you're supposed to serve caviar on. They look like crumpets for kittens (TM Janet)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I guess I have had them then.

I didn't like cavier. If I want to eat a handful of salt, I'll just eat a handful of salt.