A British food blogger came up with this list of 100 things that he feels that every omnivore should try in his or her life, and since I love food, I thought it was a fun game…
All of the items I have eaten are bolded with the items I would not consider eating italicized.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos Rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (No, but I’d be interested in trying it)
6. Black pudding (I tried this in England and would probably never eat it again.)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (Don’t like it.)
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 (I had to look this up, and found that it is a cheese from France, which means I have probably tried it? But can’t recall.)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (No, but this sounds cool.)
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 (No, thank you!)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper. (No, but I will take this as a challenge.)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna caude
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 (again in England – yum!)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I would try them if pressed, but only cooked.)
43. Phaal (I had to look this up, and since I have eaten a lot of British Indian food, it seems like something I have probably eaten, but I will not count it. I love hot curries, so am intrigued.)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/€80/$120 or more
46. Fugu (No.)
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 (I don’t know what this is.)
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
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 (love!)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (Do Restaurant Week menus count?)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa (I had to look this up, and it sounds amazing.)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
100. Snake
69% – Not bad, but I have some eating to do.
