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1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.
The VGT Omnivore's Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile - not recommended; it tastes mostly of soft gristle.
6. Black pudding - meh.
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi [potato (aloo) and cauliflower (gobi) curry]
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses [cheese]
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (Or Cajun variants thereof.)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda [vegetable dip - olive oil, butter, garlic & anchovies]
31. Wasabi peas - Not thrilled with wasabi, and I don't think peas would improve it.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - Clam chowder, yes.
33. Salted lassi - sweet lassi, yes.
34. Sauerkraut - again, meh.
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - Cognac, yes.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - not that interested.
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu - not until I am much older.
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - in the traditional English way, with mashed potatoes and peas.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi [pickled Japanese "plums" (related to apricots). Very tart.]
53. Abalone
54. Paneer.
55. McDonalds Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine[French fries in cheese curds and gravy]
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores - good, very sweet, but gopping.
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian [fruit] - as ice cream; tasted like overripe honeydew melon
66. Frogs’ legs - as a cold dessert soup in a Chinese restaurant, and it was really good.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - if it's good, its very good, if it's bad, its awful.
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 [tea]
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 [dark, rich, spicy chicken mole] - not that thrilled; chocolate shouldn't taste of onions.
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta - blech.
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
I don't think I would aboslutely refuse, under any circumstances, to eat any of these items, but it would have to be a pretty special occasion to try most alcohol (I will make an exception for single malt whisky), insects or cigars.
Notes in square brackets are explanations from comments in Pegg Kerr's journal; thanks to all who explained some items I'd never heard of.
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.
The VGT Omnivore's Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile - not recommended; it tastes mostly of soft gristle.
6. Black pudding - meh.
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi [potato (aloo) and cauliflower (gobi) curry]
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses [cheese]
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (Or Cajun variants thereof.)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda [vegetable dip - olive oil, butter, garlic & anchovies]
31. Wasabi peas - Not thrilled with wasabi, and I don't think peas would improve it.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - Clam chowder, yes.
33. Salted lassi - sweet lassi, yes.
34. Sauerkraut - again, meh.
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - Cognac, yes.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - not that interested.
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu - not until I am much older.
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - in the traditional English way, with mashed potatoes and peas.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi [pickled Japanese "plums" (related to apricots). Very tart.]
53. Abalone
54. Paneer.
55. McDonalds Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine[French fries in cheese curds and gravy]
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores - good, very sweet, but gopping.
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian [fruit] - as ice cream; tasted like overripe honeydew melon
66. Frogs’ legs - as a cold dessert soup in a Chinese restaurant, and it was really good.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - if it's good, its very good, if it's bad, its awful.
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 [tea]
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 [dark, rich, spicy chicken mole] - not that thrilled; chocolate shouldn't taste of onions.
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta - blech.
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
I don't think I would aboslutely refuse, under any circumstances, to eat any of these items, but it would have to be a pretty special occasion to try most alcohol (I will make an exception for single malt whisky), insects or cigars.
Notes in square brackets are explanations from comments in Pegg Kerr's journal; thanks to all who explained some items I'd never heard of.