Very Good Taste’s Omnivore’s 100

Fancy a bit of sea urchin, darlin'?

The Omnivore’s 100 List over at the British food blog Very Good Taste was created to present the 100 foods all red-blooded foodies (or omnivores, whichever you’d like to be called) should taste at least once in their lifetimes.  It’s a very interesting, oftentimes unusual list, really, and just proves that if something is even remotely edible, someone’s bound to eat it, even enjoy it.

Stel of baby rambutan tagged me for this particular meme-list, by the way.  (Her recent posts on after-school yumyums for her young brood are enchanting!)

The rules are very simple:

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 over at Very Good Taste linking to your results.

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
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 (Ever had wine made from mangoes?  Intoxicating!)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream (Going through a pint whilst I’m typing this.)
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (Ever tried berry picking in Baguio?  Unforgettable experience…)
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
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 (Refer to picture above…)
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 (if it’s ain’t real chocolate, I ain’t eating it!)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (By accident, once, as a child…)
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 (I don’t subscribe to the idea that all writers should drink this.)
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

Oh, and Stel also tagged me for the Six Random Things About Me meme.  So, here goes:

1. I didn’t really learn how to cook or bake till after college.  My Home Ec teachers in grade school, high school, and college said I’d never learn; look at me now…
2. I hate horror movies.
3. My favorite colors are shades of pink and red.
4. I always keep at least one bar of dark chocolate in my bag.
5. My high school principal told me I would never amount to much.  Boy, am I glad I proved the depraved monk wrong.
6. I take a magnesium salt supplement every day.  (Long story, but let’s just say it’s done wonders.)

All that said, I tag the following: Nix, Connie, Nicquee, Iska, Ate Lara, and Shella.