Shaking off the weekend (and a very nice weekend it was!), we’ll get things started slowly today, with a little meme. Thanks to Estaminet for the tag. Looks like I’m hitting 89%, so contrary to past expectations I don’t truly eat everything.
Instructions
- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
- Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
- Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
- Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The List
- Venison
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile
- Black pudding (in London and Dublin)
- Cheese fondue (a childhood favorite)
- Carp
- Borscht (a favorite recipe of my late aunt)
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari (any way I can)
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi (curried potatoes and cauliflower)
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses (how on earth did I miss this? I really love a good stinky cheese)
- Black truffle
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (rhubarb!)
- Steamed pork buns (nyaaghm!)
- Pistachio ice cream (Tosci’s)
- Heirloom tomatoes (is there another kind? not on a biscuit, there’s not)
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (I guess what I’m trying the next time I make Thai food)
- Dulce de leche
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda (I think this calls for a little fondue/bagna cauda party!)
- Wasabi peas (favorite office snack ever)
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (overrated)
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut (the best was my grandmother’s, usually buried outside in the winter to cure)
- Root beer float
- Cognac with a fat cigar
- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly/Jell-O (alas.)
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects (not any time soon, either.)
- Phaal (anyone know an Indian restaurant around Boston that serves this? Sounds like a challenge)
- Goat’s milk (not knowingly, anyway)
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
- Fugu (not yet.)
- Chicken tikka masala
- Eel (mmm, unagi)
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi
- Abalone
- Paneer
- McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
- Spaetzle
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV (oh yes)
- Poutine (not yet!)
- Carob chips (although not on purpose)
- S’mores
- Sweetbreads (mmm, thymus!)
- Kaolin (in all likelihood, but not on purpose)
- Currywurst
- Durian (I had to look this up)
- Frogs’ legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (or all of the above!)
- Haggis (I really want to. Preferably with a stiff Scotch nearby)
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings, or andouillette (I’ve always been curious about the chitlins preparation though)
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini (thanks, Caroline and Russ!)
- Louche absinthe (thanks, Dan and the Cheeselords)
- Gjetost, or brunost (yay, European breakfast buffets)
- Roadkill (nope. I’m Southern with Appalachian roots, but not that Southern or Appalachian.)
- Baijiu (sigh, another unique alcoholic beverage to try)
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- Snail (oh wow. Jetlagged plus escargot = sublime)
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini
- Tom yum (I make a mean tom yum)
- Eggs Benedict
- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers (rose gelato and fried zucchini flowers ftw!)
- Horse (not knowingly)
- Criollo chocolate
- Spam (spam spam spam)
- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa (sounds good)
- Catfish (every summer Friday growing up–thanks, Denbigh Methodist Church)
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor (I like ’em better just steamed)
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- Snake