My friend L sent me this link to the Omnivore’s Hundred, and I love a meme, and I am really hungry right now (contemplating some vending machine carrot cake, L!!!! (she hates it when I do that)) so here we go. Bold what you’ve eaten and strike through what you would never eat.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile [I have, however, eaten alligator.]
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
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 [I actually don’t remember trying this but my husband assures me that I have, so okay.]
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese [I am counting this as a yes because over the course of my lifetime, I have easily eaten my weight in scrapple, which is a delicious regional variation of head cheese. RAPPA SCRAPPLE FOR EVA! ETA!!! Head cheese is actually more like souse meat than scrapple (which is more like liver pudding than head cheese) but as I’ve eaten souse meat, I shall leave number 25 as it is.]
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 [Never had them together!]
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
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine [I’ve never had poutine but OMG do I ever want to try it. French fries, cheese curds, and gravy? Yes please.]
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin [I am crossing clay off this list in the hopes that I never have to it.]
64. Currywurst [BRING IT ON.]
65. Durian [Durian fruit is as bad, if not worse, than every terrible thing you have read or heard about it.]
66. Frogs’ legs [Animals I will never eat include: cats, dogs, frogs, turtles, and rabbits. If I’ve ever had it as a pet, or if it starred in a beloved children’s book I read, I won’t eat it. Arbitrary, but effective.]
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
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill [What can I say? I come from an area of the country where if you hit a deer, you take it home and dress it.]
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. [I have enjoyed the tasting menu at Tru, but that’s as close as I’ve come.]
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare [Edit: MissPrism informs me in the comments that rabbit and hare are actually quite different, so I have un-bolded number 86. I also opted not to cross it out, since I’ve never had a hare as a pet and as such would probably eat one.]
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
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August 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Colleen
Wow. My palette is REALLY limited. Need to try new things…
August 19, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Joanne
I’m surprised at how many of these I SHOULD have had by now, like fondue or a Krispy Kreme. But then I LOVE durian, and regularly have a durian shake at my favorite Pho restaurant.
August 19, 2008 at 7:18 pm
OTM
Eh, I’m old and I’ll try anything once. I probably racked up half of those in the last six years or so.
Holy shit, Joanne. I’m impressed. Seriously, my husband, my friend J, and I often have conversations the gist of which are “Who the hell actually likes durian???” I shouldn’t be so amazed by it. I love some much reviled foods (natto and Marmite spring immediately to mind). I just can’t handle durian.
August 19, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Tracey
So you never read Charolotte’s Web? I swear, that book almost made me a vegetarian in elementary school. Almost.
My best friend once heard about a traditional belief that another year is added to your life every time you try a new food. I think I need to send her this meme.
August 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Shannon
I am SO doing this tomorrow.
And now I really want some curried goat see what you did.
August 20, 2008 at 5:14 am
MissPrism
Hare’s surprisingly different from rabbit. Much darker and richer – more like venison, in fact.
I didn’t know scrapple was the same thing as head cheese, though. Glad I can cross that one off the list!
August 20, 2008 at 8:37 am
OTM
Ah, well I will correct that! I am nothing if not an honest meme-er.
I just doubled checked on head cheese and it’s actually more like souse meat than scrapple, but I’ve eaten that, too, so I’m good.
August 23, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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August 27, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Lisa
I did this too! It was so fun. I’m jealous – your culinary experiences are much broader than mine!
However, I worked in a deli and simply could not wrap my mind around headcheese and souse and scrapple. I know from slicing them how they look and smell … but how do they taste?
August 28, 2008 at 9:45 am
OTM
Well, I have been eating scrapple since I could eat solid food. Plus my dad used to shoot squirrels with a .22 while standing on our back porch (IN A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HAHAHA) and we’d eat them (note: squirrel is actually awful imho). I’ve eaten muskrat – the butcher near my grandparents’ house sold it. With a rural upbringing, you kind of end up with a high tolerance for eating odd animals and all sorts of organ meat. My grandfather and I used to eat potted meat on saltines for lunch all the time. I would eat Vienna sausages right out of the can for a snack. Chicken livers were a regular dinner item (and cheap). I haven’t eaten souse meat since I was a kid, though, and I can’t remember what it tastes like but I will still eat scrapple every chance I get.
My favorite brand of scrapple is Rappa. It doesn’t taste livery at all and has a nice savory flavor and good spice to it. It’s not greasy. I generally don’t like to get scrapple in restaurants as they usually slice it really thick and then deep fry it. I like it sliced a little thinner and pan fried, so the outside is really crisp and then the inside is still soft. Now I want a scrapple sandwich really bad!!!!
I am lucky to live in a city where most of these foods are easily available. You can actually purchase whole insects shrink wrapped at an Asian food market about a mile from my apartment.
One thing I’m not sure where to get, though, is haggis. My friend and I decided we need to go on a haggis mission.
September 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm
L
Guess what?! I can now cross whole insects off my list (because of my db co-worker) and sweetbreads (thanks to my awesome lady friend)! Haggis, look out.