It makes perfect sense to fill this out while digesting dinner.

[frobzwiththingz]

Ganked from donnad

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronome Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
1) bold those you have tried
2) strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
2b) Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.



1. Venison
2. Nettle tea [cheating here - i've had nettle soup. close enough]
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 (Yum!)
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 [Yo! Wake Up! You're paying $25/lb for Chopped Liver!]
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters [fried, ok. Raw, not so much.]
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas (Ew, hate peas!)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar I prefer sherry with a cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects [many kinds. June Bugs got me a girlfriend, whome i eventually married. Don't knock 'em til you try 'em. Can do without the too-seafood-y sauce the korean can of silworm larvae were packed in. Larvae themselves were OK.]
*43. Phaal
44. Goats milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle 60/$120 or more
46. Fugu In a maki roll, at Japonica in Manhattan. No noticeable effect.
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut Make sure they're warm. otherwise, not worth it. When warm, godly.
50. Sea urchin Only thing i've ever encountered that i simply *could not* get down, no matter how hard i tried. I never thought such involuntary reactions to food existed until this.
51. Prickly pear Decent tasting. Dont pick them bare-handed. Getting the spines out of your skin is annoying.
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. Mc Donalds Big Mac Meal I *hope* i never have to eat one of these again.
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini Ugh. gin AND olives. Yuk!
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads Yum Yum Yum Yum. Did i say Yum?
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian The Necker Cube of taste. It's creamy and fruity! It's Rotting Garbage! CreamyFruity! RottingGarbage!
66. frogs legs They do taste mostly like chicken, crossed with rabbit. Too small to really be worth it.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe [Maybe. I'm not sure what types of absinthe i've had. I wil say that *one* of them didnt suck.]
74. Gjetost, or brunost (???)
75. Roadkill Does racoon count?
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
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
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake rattlesnake

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

People keep on missing bagna cauda, which is dead simple and quite easy, I find it surprising

a perfectly seared piece of foie gras makes chopped liver taste like, well,nothing close to foie

[canongrrl.livejournal.com]

right there with you on the foe gras - I love both but nothing beats a perfectly used foie gras

I'll also second the sea urchin - I've tried it three times now (last time because it was super fresh) and no - chalk + raw egg isn't good at all.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

Oh, i love foie gras, but the part of my brain that watches the wallet keeps repeating the "$25/lb for chopped liver" line. The part of the brain that watches the stomach usually wins.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

How'd the fried plantain go? Did it bug you like banana does?

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

I *like* plantains. They don't do the banana thing at all. Go figure.

[blk]

That's because plantains are gooooood.