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[badseed1980]

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme: bold those you have tried, strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.

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 in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (er, does in cheese form count?)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (several kinds!)
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 (huh? the clay?)
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


Pretty pathetic for someone who considers herself quite the foodie.

Comments

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

After going to a lot of effort to select all of mine, and then having it post incorrectly (by bolding everything), I have given up, and deleted the whole thing. Hmmph.

That'll teach me to break my "no memes" rule!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

LOL! And here I was thinking you were like some gourmet superstar Tony Bourdain in female form!

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

I honest-to-goodness had quite a few. Maybe 40? And I was all pleased with myself...but I just don't have the patience to re-do it. Hmmph.

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

50) Sea urchin - I thought I had seen you eat Uni at sushi
59) Poutine - You haven't had at this Gargoyles?
63) Kaolin - "white dirt," "chalk," or "white clay," Southern pregnant ladies sometimes do eat it. Bizzare!
90) Criollo chocolate -If you have had Hershey’s Single Origin collection Java bars you have too!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't yet tried uni. I'd like to, though.
Poutine isn't top on my list of things to try, but I will sometime. It just doesn't interest me much.
Kaolin is something I usually associate with facial masks!
I haven't had those bars. I've had other single-origin chocolates, though.

[tiltedsideways.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've eaten kaolin accidentally!
:P

Crocodile is on the list-- but what about alligator? Does alligator count?


A few things on the list I've never heard of, and of the others only a few I'd never eat! (insects... horse...and probably not roadkill- unless it were damn fresh!)

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I've had gator, but didn't count that!

[vieux-yeux.livejournal.com]

I freaking love baklava. Oooh yes. Living next to Chicago's Greek Town is heaven for me. ;)