Here’s what I want you to do:
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--I've had alligator though.
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--Probably, but I can't remember.
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 in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36.
37. Clotted cream tea
38.
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
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.
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear--We used to live in South Africa so this was a common fruit.
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone-probably but I'm not 100% sure.
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal--But not anymore!
56. Spaetzle
57.
58.
59. Poutine--I am Canadian after all!
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian-Does dried count?
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis--Mum was Scottish, what can I say?
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette--does kobukuro count? Almost the same.
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73.
74. Gjetost, or brunost--but I didn't like it much.
75.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong--I love Lapsang souchong!
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef--Yonezawa beef is more famous around here!
86. Hare--I've had rabbit.
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--I made it once...it was terrible!
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
3 comments:
I wonder what motivated these particular choices for the list. There's a bit of a European bias though there are Asian dishes. Also, why is venison on the list but not rabbit or squirrel? If it's supposed to be atypical or exotic foods, they'd fit the bill. (For the record, I've had venison, rabbit, and squirrel and disliked them all.)
I'm kind of annoyed at the heavy concentration on meat, expensive or luxury foods and alcohol in the list as the low level foods seem outnumbered by the posher ones 2 to 1.
It's certainly an interesting list though!
That was a fun meme to read- I was surprised how much i could tick off the list.
YOU LIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA!?!?!?! How cool that must have been.
Loved the pic of you meeting up with a fellow blogger.
I can't remember if I told you that I may have work out there in January/ February. My company asked me to go out to Yamagata City for next weekend but the other office had already lined me up for an event in Sanjo. Anyhow, Tsuroka or Sakata was on the list of places that I could be sent to work.
Orchid64--I think the list was created by an English person, which probably speaks to why so many European and Indian dishes.
I've eaten rabbit, but not squirrel....had moose, buffalo and a bunch of other weird things too!
I wasn't impressed by all the alcohol either. I do eat meat so it didn't bother me, but I think there should have been more fish or "common" foods. I'm assuming that this is a list for gourmets, or rich people!
Lily! You're going to come to Tsuruoka or Sakata? Either one is great! If I have enough notice I'll be happy to meet up with you. Tsuruoka and Sakata will likely have lots of snow in Jan or Feb, and it'll be a little cold...be prepared.
We did live in South Africa when I was really young. Dad worked for oil companies so we tooled around the world. It was cool....and very hot!
I was so happy to meet up with M. I don't read her blog every day, but happened to read it on Sunday and saw she was in town. It was a happy coincidence. It was also a treat to have coffee with another foreign woman.
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