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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Because I get bored while feeding Regin

No posts in a few days, and this is easy to do while Regin is eating lunch. 

I found this on a food blog.  This (British) food blogger thinks every omnivore should try all of these 100 items at some point.  Fun to play...

Bolded are the foods I've eaten, crossed out are the foods I never would.

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 (haven't the faintest idea)
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 (not sure... I guess from rice doesn't count.)
19. Steamed pork buns (huh?)
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 (a.k.a. Manjar Blanco)
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (ok it was a sweet lassi minus the sugar, surely that's close enough)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (sadly tried both, not together, but still counting it)
37. Clotted cream tea (this is just a tea with cream in it right?)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (think so)
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. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (I think I've had a drink made from this, count?)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (I LOVE Palak Paneer)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (had carob, but not chips, I say that counts)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (George has, but I've been worried to try it with my hypoglycemia and the smell doesn't help)
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (haven't, but had Faroese offal, so counting it)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (not together but still counting it)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (are you kidding me?)
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

So I cheated a little, but that brings my total to 53.  What's yours?
By the way, this wasn't as good of a way to spend my feeding time as I thought.  By now Regin has pooped in his underpants (and we've really been making strides again with his EC) and spread tiny veggies, mayo and boiled egg yolk all over the room.  Bummer.

7 comments:

Caroline said...

Hmmm... 39. Ok, English lesson for you Elisabeth: carp is a type of freshwater fish (ok, so thats not really specifically English... or maybe it is I don't know) and shame on you for not knowing this: english cream teas is a scone with jam and clotted cream (and generally served with tea) YUM! There is LOT of American foods on there, considering it was done by a British blogger. I'd have crossed off raw scotch bonnet peppers myself - surely not worth the pain?

Anonymous said...

you have had plum wine.

Anonymous said...

Mine is 46. The ones that are internal organ type foods are crossed out for me.

Elisabeth said...

Aaaakkk! Ok, I KNOW that carp is a fish! George also thought I meant I didn't, so he told me so too. What I meant was... I have no idea if I have ever eaten it! :P

As for the lack of knowledge of clotted cream, Caroline, you must remember... When I left the UK I was not even 17. I didn't like tea. 'Tea' for me meant little more than 'supper' or Lipton's Instant Iced Tea (blech). Which by the way is served in COUNTLESS restaurants here as "lemon tea." Blech, blech! Anyway, I was going by the link to cream tea on wikipedia, so I guess I was wrong, but I'm still keeping it because I had my fair share of scones too.

And as George says I have had plum wine, so I guess that makes at least 54.

Elisabeth said...

Teddi, you are such a weenie. :P

Please also tell me you crossed off the bugs and road kill???

Anonymous said...

Ummm, yeah I crossed off bugs and friggin ROAD KILL, lol!!

Anonymous said...

60! Although I'm highly unlikely to try the ones that I've missed on that list.

(and I bet we've all eaten whole bugs w/o realizing it. Yuck! Lol!)