Adventures in Eating

Ok. I don't normally do really, really long stuff like this unless I'm bored, and today I'm actually not. But this was so interesting! I'm not a food person, per se, but I love variety, so it was fun looking up what some of these actually are.

Anyway.

This guy on a blog called Very Good Taste made a list of 100 varied foods he thought everyone ought to try. (Thanks, Rachel!) So here's what you do: Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions. Bold all items you've eaten. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

Here's mine, and I am not very adventurous!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (I draw the line at raw meat.)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht (Eew.)
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi (I would try it, but I don’t handle spicy very well.)
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 (I’ve had it w/o the bowl)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (Eew.)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a big fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (That was on accident – one flew in my mouth. They’re very bitter.)
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 (Martinis are gross.)
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
69. Fried plantain (Gross, but I’ve had it.)
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 (With chicken, yes. Prawns, no.)
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 (Bagel, yes. Never had lox.)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Ok, so I used to say I'd try anything palatable once ... but now I've found there are a few things I will not touch on principle, for safety reasons, or because they're insanely spicy. I still consider myself fairly open-minded when it comes to food. I would do a whole different list myself, like:

1. Brown Rice
2. Whole Wheat French Toast
3. Karen L.'s water

Yeah. Those are just three foods I cannot do without. hee hee

So try the list! Wikipedia has most of them, if you don't know what it is. Happy virtual tasting!