Aug 18, 2008 10:17
Ganked from several places, but most recently seen by me on Uncertain Principles, a list of "odd" foods. Bold the ones you've eaten, strike out the ones you never would.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (but I have had alligator)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
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 (I've even eaten a soft pretzel sold on a street corner)
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns (staple when I lived in Hawaii)
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 (allergic to shellfish - I'd like to live, thank you!)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas (I've even had wasabi peas covered in chocolate. Interesting taste combination)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (YUCK. I really, really hate this stuff. Probably from my days working at a place called Frank 'N Stein)
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 (if I could try this in Japan, I probably would, if it were a true fugu chef))
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin (actually, I'm not positive - I MAY have had this the last time I was in Japan. Never did figure out what that one thing was....)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone (again, shell fish)
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV (Mmmmm..... Beer.....)
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
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (Not to the best of my knowledge)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini (had to look this up - sounds pretty good, actually)
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 (I love coffee, but was pretty "meh" about this)
100. Snake
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