Comments | chiashurb: 100 Foods meme

chiashurb

100 Foods meme

Jan 04, 2012 17:48

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.
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teaotter January 5 2012, 00:32:56 UTC

For a lot of these, the quality and preparation really matter. Poorly done frogs legs are rubbery and nasty. Well-done, they're tasty -- though still not worth the effort, from my experience. Maybe exceptionally well-done frogs legs are exceptional, but I consider that to be true of pretty much any ingredient.

Similarly, cheap tea packet lapsang souchong is terrible, but the loose leaves you can get from tea stores are usually excellent.

If you're looking to cross several things off your list at once, try a good sushi restaurant. You should be able to get sea urchin (uni), eel (both sea and river), abalone, and possibly umeboshi.

I can't believe you've never had pho or borscht. They're soup! How can you not have had soup?!? Okay, so I've never had pho at home, but the restaurants give you giant piles of bean sprouts and basil leaves so you can condiment your soup at the table, it's wonderful. I highly recommend it.

aedifica January 6 2012, 19:05:54 UTC

For a lot of these, the quality and preparation really matter.

Yes! Eel sushi done well is delicious. Eel sushi done badly makes me want to spit it back out. (Fortunately, I think all the restaurants I've had it at have done it well, and I've learned not to get eel when I get grocery-store sushi.)

Edited to add: specifically, unagi maki. Yum.

kiarrith January 5 2012, 02:29:00 UTC

We are growing nettles this year and will happily brew you some tea. Also martinsburg has an amazing jamaican place with scrumptious curried goat, probably oxtail but I dont recall.

kiarrith January 5 2012, 02:29:41 UTC

Ah,we also have lapsong souchong...forgive typos, laptop dead, using phone

dancinglights January 5 2012, 05:07:55 UTC

Poutine is one of the few things for which I will shamelessly break vegetarianism in front of people who go through effort to accommodate my diet. In fact, it and day scallops are the only things I can think of.

That said, I did this exercise a while back and I'm quite certain I've tried quite a lot more of the list now that I've a more-restricted diet. One gets more adventurous when fewer things are categorically food?

Various responses to the list, since it's more fun replying here than posting it myself aedifica January 6 2012, 19:37:53 UTC

I don't think I've ever had venison. Must be why I'm not an Iowan anymore?

Borscht is tasty. My college roommate Maria, who was Russian, taught me to eat it with a spoonful of sour cream stirred in. It's a very different soup that way, and tasty both ways.

I had some Amana fruit wine last night! I'm slowly working my way through a bottle of rhubarb, and I have an untouched bottle of sweet cranberry and one other kind, but I don't remember which kind. We did a family trip to the Amana Colonies in October, and we stopped by one of the wine shops there and tasted ALL THE WINES, and Katie and I each brought some back. (I'm still on the alcohol-unfriendly but aedifica-friendly antidepressant, but a shotglass-sized serving of wine gives me no ill effects.)

Nate introduced me to canned smoked oysters on crackers (he likes butter crackers like Ritz for this). Canned not-smoked oysters aren't nearly as tasty in this application ( ... )