omnivore 100 | 9:45 am | 6 September 2008
Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions. Bold all the items you’ve eaten. Underline any items that you would never consider eating.
- venison
- nettle tea —no way
- huevos rancheros
- steak tartare
- crocodile
- black pudding
- cheese fondue
- carp
- borscht
- baba ghanoush
- calamari
- pho
- PB&J sandwich
- aloo gobi
- hot dog from a street cart
- époisses —pretty sure I had this delicious stinker in Paris; I’ll check my notes
- black truffle
- fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- steamed pork buns
- pistachio ice cream
- heirloom tomatoes
- fresh wild berries
- foie gras
- rice and beans
- brawn, or head cheese
- raw Scotch Bonnet pepper oh hells no
- dulce de leche
- oysters
- baklava
- bagna cauda
- wasabi peas
- clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- salted lassi —but that’s an idea (I don’t care for the sweet ones much)
- sauerkraut
- root beer float
- cognac with a fat cigar
- clotted cream tea
- vodka jelly/Jell-O
- gumbo
- oxtail
- curried goat
- whole insects
- phaal — again, not a masochist!
- goat’s milk
- malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
- fugu — and won’t ever
- chicken tikka masala
- eel
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- sea urchin
- prickly pear
- umeboshi
- abalone
- paneer
- McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
- spaetzle
- dirty gin martini — the only way to make a martini
- beer above 8% ABV
- poutine
- carob chips —gross!
- s’mores
- sweetbreads
- kaolin —except in Kaopectate, etc.; ask me again when I’m pregnant
- currywurst
- durian —yuck
- frogs’ legs
- beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- haggis
- fried plantain
- chitterlings, or andouillette
- gazpacho
- caviar and blini
- louche absinthe
- gjetost, or brunost
- roadkill
- baijiu
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- snail
- Llapsang souchong
- bellini
- tom yum
- Eggs Benedict
- pocky
- tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant — but I think that three visits to Sanford counts
- Kobe beef
- hare
- goulash
- flowers
- horse —find me some and I’ll cook it!
- Criollo chocolate
- Spam
- soft shell crab
- rose harissa
- catfish
- mole poblano
- bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- snake
