Monday, August 18, 2008

The Omnivore's 100

I recently heard of the Omnivore's 100 through Chocolate and Zucchini and was intrigued. The idea is that these are 100 foods that Very Good Taste (a British food blog)'s author, Andrew Wheeler, thinks every good omnivore should try at least once. So I've gone through and bolded everything I have tried and crossed out what I don't think I'll ever try.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

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  *  Unsure, though I think I have
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
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 in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar *  like the cognac, can't do the cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear  (for some reason, not a fan)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal  (but not at all recently...blech)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV  (my favourite beers are!)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads  YUM!
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis  - haven't had this yet but hear it's very similar to a Tunisian dish called Osbane...
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill     (Sorry - not interested.)
76. Baijiu  but not since I was a teenager, oddly enough.
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.*  Unsure... I've had some fantastic tasting menus at amazing places but don't really keep track of Michelin stars.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse  but don't really want to have any ever again.
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa  - no clue what the rose part means... Being a good Tunisian, I've had tons of harissa in my lifetime though.
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

So that's 13 Nos (of which 2 are nevers), and 2 unsures... That's not too bad.