100 Foods meme
From "verygoodtaste" dot co dot uk, a list of 100 foods every omnivore should eat! Too much fun to ignore. The instructions are, "bold the ones you've eaten, cross off the ones you don't dare try." I've had slightly more than half.
1. Venison (I think every Iowan has)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (hasn't everybody?)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (I've had alligator, but no croc)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (kind of surprised I haven't)
9. Borscht (I'll be making some as soon as I get shadowmorphic's grandmothers' recipe
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (hasn't everybody?)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (both Amana and Fingerlakes, plus fruited meads I've made)
19. Steamed pork buns (thanks to satyrgrl for introducing me to Dim Sum)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (eaten, grown, had dates centered around. Old news :-) )
22. Fresh wild berries (on the mountains, in the forests, wherever they grow)
23. Foie gras (no, but satyrgrl has convinced me that I should)
24. Rice and beans (one of my favorite New Orleanean dishes)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (recently came off my "no thanks" list. Fine, I'll try it).
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (never heard of it, but after googling, I must find it!)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (vinegar and lacto-fermented)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
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 (overrated)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (worth making from scratch, exactly once, to say you've done it)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV (and also made it)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (¿? the internet tells me this means a type of clay)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (under all four names)
68. Haggis (want!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (mieva_r, help me out here!)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (I've had enough undying cake products in my life, thanks)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
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
1. Venison (I think every Iowan has)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (hasn't everybody?)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (I've had alligator, but no croc)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (kind of surprised I haven't)
9. Borscht (I'll be making some as soon as I get shadowmorphic's grandmothers' recipe
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (hasn't everybody?)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (both Amana and Fingerlakes, plus fruited meads I've made)
19. Steamed pork buns (thanks to satyrgrl for introducing me to Dim Sum)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (eaten, grown, had dates centered around. Old news :-) )
22. Fresh wild berries (on the mountains, in the forests, wherever they grow)
23. Foie gras (no, but satyrgrl has convinced me that I should)
24. Rice and beans (one of my favorite New Orleanean dishes)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (recently came off my "no thanks" list. Fine, I'll try it).
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (never heard of it, but after googling, I must find it!)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (vinegar and lacto-fermented)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
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 (overrated)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (worth making from scratch, exactly once, to say you've done it)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV (and also made it)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (¿? the internet tells me this means a type of clay)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (under all four names)
68. Haggis (want!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (mieva_r, help me out here!)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (I've had enough undying cake products in my life, thanks)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
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