Things I have ate...
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2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
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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...
2 Comments:
Impressive list and happy to say I've tried quite a few of them too.
I like you blog very much.
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