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[blackberry444]

From g8burThe text and instructions below were copied from hooloovoo_42's post; they originated from http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk.

Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

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 here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk 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 ganoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho (no idea what that is!)
13. Peanut butter and Jam sarnie
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses (no idea what they are!)
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, but no sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat ceegar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects ( do chocolate ants count?)
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 (no idea what that is)
53  Abalone
54  Paneer
55  McDonald's Big Mac meal
56 Spaetzle
57  Dirty gin martini  (i've had a gin martini, but don't know what a dirty one is)
58  Beer above 8% ABV
59  Poutine
60  Carob chips
61 S'mores
62  Sweetbreads
63  Kaolin - with morphine
64  Currywurst
65  Durian
66.  Frogs' legs
67.  Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68.  Haggis
69.  Fried plantain
70.  Chitterlings or andouilettes
71.  Gazpachi
72.  Caviar & blini
73   Louche absinthe
72  Gjetost or brunost
75  Roadkill (not as far as I know, anyway)
76  Baijiu
77  Hostess Fruit Pie
78  Snails
79  Lapsang Souchong
80  Bellini
81  Tom yum
82  Eggs Benedict
83  Pocky (who?)
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 shelled crab
93  Rose harissa (Ive had harissa, but don't know whether it was rose or not)
94  Catfish
95  Mole poblano
96  Bagel and lox
97  Lobster Thermidor
98  Polenta
99  Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
100  Snake

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

You've put it all in bold. Even the stuff you won't try. Did you forget to close a tag somewhere? (I'm guessing after Calamari, since you comment that you don't know what Pho is so probably haven't eaten it!)

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Boy! You were quick. I'd just that second posted it and found out what I'd done. Corrected it now, I hope!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

i've had a gin martini, but don't know what a dirty one is

It's one with some liquor from the olive bottle added into it. So it's salty.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Oh! Maybe I'll try that sometime!

[incognitas.livejournal.com]

Baklava...drool.Had some in the Turkish restaurant Mary took me to in London two weeks ago.I'd forgotten how good the REAL thing was.

I'd have to cross off the whole insects too and I wonder if it included roasted caterpillars.Do I detect the hand of mother?She also refused to allow me to have any wild honeycomb either which I was very put out about.

I still am, having managed to get my hands on some wild African honey at one point.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

I was very cross with Ma over that, specially considering how I helped the men collect the bugs and put them into buckets of water.

*And* they smelled wonderful cooked on a shovel over a wood fire.

Mind you........I did wonder about whole insects, because I regularly eat prawns and other similar seafood which seem like big insects to me.