If all your foodblogging friends and contacts and idols jumped off a cliff, Girlie, would you follow?
Nope, but I'll do a meme about eating tasty and strange foods!
This one has been making the rounds for the last six weeks or so. It started out on the UK's own Very Good Taste, then quickly jumped the pond and has been showing up on pretty much every blog I read. (No, that's not exhaustive!) And, hey, it looks like fun, and takes my mind of the impending (ongoing?) collapse of the US economy!
Here are the rules.
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.
And just to shake things up a little, I'm going to link to pictures of some of these things if I've documented them already. (And remember, with the Flickr links - underneath each picture is a link to the post I wrote about it.)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
(No, but I have had nettles... does that count?)
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
(why yes, it's one of my favorite things in the world!)
11. Calamari
(fried, of course, and grilled)
12. Pho (oh good lord yes - in Saigon, but not Hanoi)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
(I did grow up in Chicago...)
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle (even went to a festival!)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
(nom nom nom)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
(I still remember my first, in San Sabastian... sigh)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (Husbear even made some, though it was never blogged)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
(another all-time favorite food)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
(in Aosta)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
(and I had to make one for a Texas state senator. Another stupid story...)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (half-point? No?)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
(was this list written by a frat boy?)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
(from a streetcart in Bangkok)
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
(Jellied, whole fried, or Japanese BBQ style?)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
(only in margarita form...)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
(love ya, Belgium!)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
(my mom owned a teacher's store next to a health food store.)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
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
(sure is easier now that it's legal!)
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
(have some in the fridge now! I should post more pics...)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
(Nope, just regular.)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
(Dude, I'm Jewish!)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
(when DON'T we have polenta?)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
So, a B-. 80/100, with nothing I wouldn't try - though it might take me a while to get talked into a raw scotch bonnet, and that abalone better be sustainable.
Let's see if I can talk Mr. Pants into doing this. I wonder how far off his list will be from mine?
