The Omnivore’s Hundred
Apparently I'm a very bad omnivore. Take a look.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - duh, I live in Los Angeles.
4. Steak tartare.
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding.
7. Cheese fondue.
8. Carp - of course, but not often - it's filled with bones.
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari - yum
12. Pho - double yum, but hold the tripe.
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi - aloo gobi matar, yum.
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - does umeshu (plum wine) count?
19. Steamed pork buns - steamed & baked barbeque pork buns from dim sum, yeah.
20. Pistachio ice cream - at an Indian ice cream shop, yes
21. Heirloom tomatoes - fan-friggin'-tastic
22. Fresh wild berries -
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans - duh, I live in Los Angeles.
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - kaki? Interesting when battered and fried for Chinese New Year. Much sweeter raw.
29. Baklava - in Greece. Armenian bakeries do it well too.
30. Bagna cauda - My first time was at the Stinking Rose, a garlic restaurant, in Beverly Hills. Iron Chef Morimoto suggests a spinoff recipe with crab naan in his cookbook, the New Art of Japanese Cooking.
31. Wasabi peas - tasty with rice crackers
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - many, many times. Bonus points if you toast the lid with a bit of Parmesian.
33. Salted lassi - tried it, but I normally go for mango lassi.
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - mmm... beer. Coke floats are good too.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
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 - will get back to you.
47. Chicken tikka masala - super yum!
48. Eel - unagi or anago? BOTH! Best way to eat it: unagi don - over rice.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - *drools* 200 calories of deliciousness. Bonus points if the light is on and the doughnuts are warm.
50. Sea urchin - ah uni. Recently tried it. Adventure-man Bear Grylls described it as "salty, orange egg". He's quite right.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi - good as onigiri.
53. Abalone - it's an algae-eating foot, people!
54. Paneer - paneer makhani, yes.
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips - definately not chocolate. more like dog chocolate.
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin - you mean clay?!
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - no, the smell was too off-putting.
66. Frogs legs - frog, yes. frog's legs, no.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - sorry Marisa.
69. Fried plantain - makes good chips
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe - absinthe was recently legalized, but not this brand
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill - only if I hit it and knew it was fresh, like a deer or a cow.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - old school
78. Snail - At a Japanese restaurant once, yes. Little snails in the shell (you evict them with a toothpick).
79. Lapsang souchong - smoked black tea? of course.
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum - you know it's good when you sweat and sniffle.
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky - I like green tea, strawberry, and the hard-to-find Canadian maple. I wonder if they make a Hokkaido melon flavor...
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare - you mean rabbit?
87. Goulash
88. Flowers - yes, a pansy at tea.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam - spam musubi!
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
Originally from Very Good Taste UK.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - duh, I live in Los Angeles.
4. Steak tartare.
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding.
7. Cheese fondue.
8. Carp - of course, but not often - it's filled with bones.
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari - yum
12. Pho - double yum, but hold the tripe.
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi - aloo gobi matar, yum.
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - does umeshu (plum wine) count?
19. Steamed pork buns - steamed & baked barbeque pork buns from dim sum, yeah.
20. Pistachio ice cream - at an Indian ice cream shop, yes
21. Heirloom tomatoes - fan-friggin'-tastic
22. Fresh wild berries -
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans - duh, I live in Los Angeles.
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - kaki? Interesting when battered and fried for Chinese New Year. Much sweeter raw.
29. Baklava - in Greece. Armenian bakeries do it well too.
30. Bagna cauda - My first time was at the Stinking Rose, a garlic restaurant, in Beverly Hills. Iron Chef Morimoto suggests a spinoff recipe with crab naan in his cookbook, the New Art of Japanese Cooking.
31. Wasabi peas - tasty with rice crackers
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - many, many times. Bonus points if you toast the lid with a bit of Parmesian.
33. Salted lassi - tried it, but I normally go for mango lassi.
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - mmm... beer. Coke floats are good too.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
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 - will get back to you.
47. Chicken tikka masala - super yum!
48. Eel - unagi or anago? BOTH! Best way to eat it: unagi don - over rice.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - *drools* 200 calories of deliciousness. Bonus points if the light is on and the doughnuts are warm.
50. Sea urchin - ah uni. Recently tried it. Adventure-man Bear Grylls described it as "salty, orange egg". He's quite right.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi - good as onigiri.
53. Abalone - it's an algae-eating foot, people!
54. Paneer - paneer makhani, yes.
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips - definately not chocolate. more like dog chocolate.
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin - you mean clay?!
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - no, the smell was too off-putting.
66. Frogs legs - frog, yes. frog's legs, no.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - sorry Marisa.
69. Fried plantain - makes good chips
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe - absinthe was recently legalized, but not this brand
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill - only if I hit it and knew it was fresh, like a deer or a cow.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - old school
78. Snail - At a Japanese restaurant once, yes. Little snails in the shell (you evict them with a toothpick).
79. Lapsang souchong - smoked black tea? of course.
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum - you know it's good when you sweat and sniffle.
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky - I like green tea, strawberry, and the hard-to-find Canadian maple. I wonder if they make a Hokkaido melon flavor...
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare - you mean rabbit?
87. Goulash
88. Flowers - yes, a pansy at tea.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam - spam musubi!
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
Originally from Very Good Taste UK.