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We have been getting so spoiled with the weather. Mostly it's not really been all that cold, with temps mainly in the single digits on the plus side or just into the negatives. Then when we do have a few colder days like this week, you really feel it worse. Everyone complains but then you remember, it *is* January after all!
Then there's that 100 foods to try before you die meme going around. list below, bolded the ones i've tried. Seems i've not been around much! There's a couple i'm not sure if i have so i left it off the list.
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 ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - possibly
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - possibly
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras - have had pate but not proper goose 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
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut Tried it. once. yuck
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O shot-
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk - have had the cheese, but not the milk
45. Single malt whisky
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
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
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
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
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 - have tried rabbit when i was a kid, same thing i suppose
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - lobster yes, tinned crab yes, but not as such where you eat it like lobster, in the shell
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox (guess i can't cheat. Bagels all the time, no lox)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
100. Snake
Then there's that 100 foods to try before you die meme going around. list below, bolded the ones i've tried. Seems i've not been around much! There's a couple i'm not sure if i have so i left it off the list.
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 ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - possibly
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - possibly
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras - have had pate but not proper goose 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
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut Tried it. once. yuck
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O shot-
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk - have had the cheese, but not the milk
45. Single malt whisky
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
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
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
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
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 - have tried rabbit when i was a kid, same thing i suppose
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - lobster yes, tinned crab yes, but not as such where you eat it like lobster, in the shell
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox (guess i can't cheat. Bagels all the time, no lox)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
100. Snake