Things I have ate...

From Jayne with a Why? Not too bad - eight to go!


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) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.


The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:



1. Venison (wonderful stuff, got a haunch in the freezer for Christmas…)

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros (and cooked it too in a Tex Mex restaurant)

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile (smoked, from Inverawe Smokery in Scotland)

6. Black pudding (Val the Old Pole from Le Marche Noir made the best ever)

7. Cheese fondue

8. Carp

9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari (best enjoyed at a table on the dock outside The Captain’s Cabin, Fiskardo)

12. Pho (not yet..)

13. PB&J

14. Aloo gobi

15. Hot dog from a street cart

16. Epoisses (and worse!)

17. Black truffle (fresh, new season’s, every year)

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (Moniack Wines headbanging bottlings!)

19. Steamed pork buns (favourites are from Lang Kwei Fong)

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoess

22. Fresh wild berries

23. Foie gras (even as a dessert – Micheal Goodman’s foie gras crème brulée at Napa)

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn, or head cheese (also known as potted hough)

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters
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29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas (wasabi paste and wasabi powder, yes)

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (on arrival at Boston Airport)

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar

37. Clotted cream tea

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O shots

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail (and braised hearts, tongue, ox cheek, kidneys…)

41. Curried goat (not curried, but grilled and stewed on Greek islands)

42. Whole insects (does the agave worm from the bottom of a bottle of Mezcal count?)

43. Phaal (after 17 pints of lager, of course!)

44. Goat’s milk (and sheep’s, and camel’s)

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (favourite tipple!)

46. Fugu

47. Chicken tikka masala

48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut

50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi (plums – only known cure for dysentery!)

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 (for medicinal purposes)

64. Currywurst

65. Durian

66. Frogs’ legs

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

68. Haggis (take one sheep, turn inside out, cook)

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 (1 and 2, but not 3 yet!)

85. Kobe beef

86. Hare (and rabbit)

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

100. Snake (again, smoked)


92/100. Must try harder...