Monday, August 18, 2008

A hundred foods you should eat

From Frog.
Those I've eaten are in bold. I had to look up an embarrassing number of these up, but a lust for travel and a stomach of steel has resulted in a pretty bolded list.

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. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart

16. Epoisses - I'm not sure. Maybe.
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes - Maybe.
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn or head cheese - I highly suspect so.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche - assuming eating it as banoffee pie counts.
28. Oysters
29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lass
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly

39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail - in kkori gomtang (꼬리곰탕).
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - larvae in Korea and spider in Cambodia
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 - possibly in pate
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain

70. Chitterlings or andouillette - possibly, and I've definitely had pork scratchings
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - not sure
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini

81. Tom yum - I think so
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 - in Tia Maria, for sure. Not entirely sure otherwise.

3 comments:

Greg said...

Hmmm. You are clearly far more of a gastronaut than me, having eaten many things I have not and me having eaten only three that you haven't: Borscht, Prickly pear,and Currywurst.

Hmmm. Still, I shall be indulging in haggis again this weekend. In the Last Drop, all going well.

Sofiya said...

I've eaten everything on that list except fugu, roadkill and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Of those three, I think the peanut butter and jelly sandwich is the thing I'd like the least. The thought actually makes me feel quite nauseated!

Amanda said...

What?!?!?! Noooooooo!

I'm eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich for dinner just now, actually.