Omnivorous meme

[giantsloth]

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods that Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives (via madkestrel).

It's a weird list, part cuisine world tour, and part "ooh, how challenging and adventurous!" I'm not a big fan of the latter mindset, but anyway....

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

1. Venison (not that I find it particularly digestible)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (Breakfast House, RIP)
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 (Surely I've had some, but I can't recall exactly.)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream (It was my favorite flavor when I was a kid)
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 (I don't get the bread bowl thing, but I realized I have had this at an airport Legal Seafood.)
33. Salted lassi (I always get a mango lassi, although I have tried the salted lemonade at Vietnamese restaurants.)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I don't eat cigars.)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly (What's the point?)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (Wilderness Survival merit badge holders, represent!)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (You do not need to spend a lot of money to drink good whisk[e]y.)
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (A dozen at a time, washed down with 2 liters of soda, was the standard high school snack.)
50. Sea urchin (When it's good it's very, very good and when it's bad, it's awful.)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi (Tried it, not really a fan.)
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (Not in many years.)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (In case you hadn't heard, martinis are delicate, not briny.)
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 (Cafe du Monde, yum.)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe (have had it several times, cannot stress how much it is not a big deal.)
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

Comments

[czakbar.livejournal.com]

Definitely a weird list, but it's making me hungry. If you eat beef, you have to try Kobe beef sometime. I think the Japanese restaurant in Madison we typically go to has good Kobe beef if I'm remembering correctly.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Kobe beef was one (as was the non-grape fruit wine) where I didn't have a clear memory of consuming any, although it's certainly possible I've had it. But yeah, next year in Madison, I will make a point of trying it. And actually, now that I am typing up here, I realize--duh--that I have had non-grape fruit wine, because I've had plum wine.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

There is a world of difference between the average funnel cake and a good beignet. I'm just saying. (And I think most funnel cakes are average.)

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree completely. Funnel cakes are the things that burn your mouth, get your hand greasy, and get powdered sugar on your shirt. Beignets are tasty treats you have with chicory coffee.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

I noticed balut isn't in there. Which makes sense, 'cause that shit is just nasty.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Have you tried balut? Given your globehopping background, I'm guessing you might've. I think I'd try at least one bite. Note: this does not mean I am auditioning for any reality TV shows.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

I have seen it. That was enough.

(Sort of like the smell of vegemite, which I also never tried, despite it living in my house for ten years.)

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Vegemite on toast, yum!

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

More like, "axle grease on a shingle."

Serves me right, marrying a Kiwi.

[colonelrowe.livejournal.com]

I got at least a 95 percent on that one.

Since you're over thirty, you've probably had horse as an ingredient in a blended oil something was deep fried in at some point in your life. And pretty much anybody whose had "french fries" on the European mainland has probably has had pure quill horse fat. The farther east, the more likely.

I've heard of food banks that take roadkill venison.

I've had roadkill racoon.

I'd almost guarantee you've had carp if you've ever had any commercially prepared seafood product.

You haven't had head cheese? Really?

Mostly, I can't believe you haven't had bagna cauda. Oh man, you gotta get you some of that. A good crusty bread dipped into a sauce made out of anchovies, garlic, butter, and olive oil. Oh, man, I want some right now!

Snake tastes kinda like squirrel. Hey, how come squirrel ain't on this list?

[chrismclaren.livejournal.com]

I was just going to reply to Richard to say "Bagna cauda? Really?"

But apparently you beat me to it.

I'm with him on the roadkill thing though.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

It's a big world.

I will stop by the Italian market and see if they have a large flask of bagna cauda, though. And perhaps I will wash it down with nettle tea.

[colonelrowe.livejournal.com]

Man, I just looked again. You haven't had curried goat?!?

I'm almost jealous of you that you still get to have that for the first time.

PS I bet Wilton makes a mean bagna cauda!

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Some of the stuff I didn't mark, I've probably had once or twice but it just wasn't memorable. Cuz I'm not the foodie that you are.

As far as carp or horse go, I was reading the quiz as "have you had a big steaming hunk of carp or horse?"