Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Food Meme

I wish blogger had something similar to a lj cut. Oh, well.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Italicize any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Star* things that you'd really like to try eating.



1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue (I have it for dinner often!)
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 (yum! I love this stuff)
17. Black truffle*
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (blueberry! apple!)
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 (thanks, Michelle)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi* (I don't like sweet lassis, but I wonder if I would like a salty one... maybe not)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I hate cigars)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly* (I'm intrigued)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal * (wiki says this is a very hot curry, hotter than vindaloo... I don't find vindaloo that hot, so I could try phaal- then again, I'm going by a restaurant that Indian people won't go to)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel (thanks, Clint)
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 (does last night's gin martini with concentrated olive drippings count?)
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 (um, these are all very, very different... all quite tasty, though)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (ew)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (never together, though)
73. Louche absinthe*
74. Gjetost, or brunost (YUM. I heart gjetost tons and tons. Caramelized goat cheese, you can't go wrong with that!)
75. Roadkill (but I know someone whose father sells it at his shop)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini (Michelle's are the best)
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

some of these are less exotic than others... such as the ones I make for myself on a regular basis.

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