Thursday, September 4, 2008

Random Food thoughs

Here's a list of 100 odd foods. Everything in Purple I've tried, and in italics there is no way I would ever eat it! I've been pretty adventurous in my food, how about you?

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 (i've had the cognac)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
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
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
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis (i've seen what it really is)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (ranks up there with haggis Yuck)
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
So, how did I do?
Foods eaten: 65.5
Foods I don't ever want to try: 17

3 comments:

Shevy said...

I've had at least 31 out of your list, including a couple that you won't consider (many, many years ago before I began keeping kosher).

Things I haven't had and can't imagine eating (not for kashrut reasons, although all but one are non-kosher, but for the "yuck factor"):
Whole insects
Fugu (not *dying* to risk paralysis & death)
Chitterlings
Roadkill
Horse

Anonymous said...

Ive only eaten 5 things on the list and one of them was a Big Mac meal..I'm so cultured..lol :)

Kathrin said...

I'd like to add one which could be on the list... kangaroo. I live in Australia, and can't imagine eating it, but anyone who has always says it tastes wonderful! I just can't imagine eating Skippy though.

I've very unadventurous, but funnily enough I have eaten crocodile, it tasted so much like pork I'm not convinced it was crocodile!