Food for Thought

My friend S posted this awhile back. She found it on the blog Very Good Taste. One of my greatest pleasures in life (behind family and music, of course) is food. It is seriously a wonder that I am not horribly overweight. I get very excited when I get to try new foods. The idea of the list below is that it is 100 foods that everyone should try at least once.

Is there anything you would add to this list, or any foods below with which you have had interesting experiences? I had to look some of them up, so don't think that I am so cool that I knew what all of these were...

The Omnivore's 100
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.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (Yes, it tastes like chicken.)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho (My Vietnamese food experiences are severly lacking)
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 (Oh, how I love them.)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie grois (Excuse my while I squirm uncomfortably as I think how tasty it is.)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (I think slicing it the deli ruined it for me.)
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 (Foul. I would be willing to give it another shot in hope that what I had was poorly made.)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
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
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 (Just reading this makes me want one.)
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 (This sounds awesome. Cheese Curds, fries, and gravy. But does it mean the Quebecois dish or the Acadian?)
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (I have no clue what this is.)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis (I would really have to work myself up to it.)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (Does it count that I have never had them together?)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (Much like S from whom I took the list, I'm not too sure if I had itgrowing up or not.)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong (Kate can't stand it when I make this. She calls it my "BBQ tea." It's best really sweet.)
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 (Don't get me started on the pizza place at Wayne State that uses this in lieu of ham.)
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

I think to this list I would add croque-monsieur, gyros, sweet potato fries, spicy tuna roll, monte cristo, and scotch eggs...and about a 100 more dishes!