Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Omnivore's 100

Taken from Chocolate & Zucchini.

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you’ve eaten (I've used icons instead, and added an asterisk for the items I'm particularly fond of. The things I want to try are italicized.).
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4. Optional extra: post a comment on Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (I have issues with the raw meat thing. But yet I eat and love sushi. How odd.)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (Eww, I won't even touch dinuguan!)
7. Cheese fondue*
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari* (Kid brother and I adore calamari. We can polish off a plate of this stuff sooo fast!)
12. Phở (I have no idea how I've never had pho when I live in freakin San Francisco!)
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 (I'd love to try it sometime!)
19. Steamed pork buns* (I'm not crazy about pork, but I looooove these!)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries* (With mascarpone, please!)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet Pepper
27. Dulce de leche*
28. Oysters* (Raw or on the half shell)
29. Baklava* (I looooove baklava. Bring me some, and I will love you forever!)
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (I'm in San Francisco, of course I've had this!)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root Beer Float* (I hate root beer, but vanilla ice cream makes everything better)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (No, no, NO!)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/€80/$120 or more
46. Fugu (I'd try it if I weren't so scared of the dying thing lol. Maybe on my deathbed :P )
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel* (Mmm unagi and rice!)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (I can only eat one usually, they're too sweet. Besides, for that many calories, there sure is a lot of air in one of those!)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (I wanted to eat them, just like Daddy. Turns out, the only fast food burger I will eat is from In N Out.)
56. Spaetzle (I'm sure I would have enjoyed it more if I had tried it somewhere besides a crappy touristy restaurant in Germany)
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores* (How can you not like s'mores?)
62. Sweetbreads (Eww!)
63. Kaolin (Um, why?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (I'm rather curious about it, but I'm not sure I could take the smell.)
66. Frogs’ legs (Apparently they taste just like chicken. Uh...I'll pass.)
67. Beignets*, churros*, elephant ears or funnel cake*
68. Haggis (Do you not see the pattern here? I don't do innards!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (Uh...why??)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (Disgusting.)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict (One of my favorite dishes to order at brunch)
83. Pocky* (I loooooove Pocky! Especially strawberry flavored!)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (I wish! Who wants to pay for me? LOL)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers (Stuffed zucchini flowers, mmmm)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (I'm Filipino, and Filipinos love their Spam!)
92. Soft shell crab*
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano*
96. Bagel and lox* (I used to always stop by Noah's and get a bagel with cream cheese and lox, right after my training runs. Kinda put all the calories I burned off back into my body, but whatever...they were yummy!)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta*
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake