Food Meme

[debitha]

Bold the ones you've eaten; italicize the ones you want to eat; strikethrough the ones you never want to touch; leave the ones you're neutral about trying.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Alligator
6. Black pudding - I tried it, but I just can't deal with the contents.
7. Cheese fondue - Yum.
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich - I am not sure why this is even on the list. Has anyone who is not allergic to nuts not had a PB&J sandwich?
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses - Actually, I'm not sure whether I've had this or not.
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed buns - Yum, bao!
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 - Spicy pepper bad.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - I have major texture issues with oysters. Blech.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi - I've had sweet, but I don't think I've had salted
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - Hell no.
43. Phaal - Hotter than vindaloo apparently, which puts it out of my running.
44. Goat’s milk - I didn't like it very much, but I was about 7 at the time.
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 - Looks tasty.
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV - Echhh, beer.
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin - Whut? Google and Wiki list this as a kind of clay.
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - As black pudding, but with additional texture issues.
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - Breakfast cheese at the Hostel in Norway, it is weirdly caramelly and I like it.
75. Roadkill - It's mostly that I have quality/health control issues with this.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail - This is almost a strikethrough, but I'm probably persuadable.
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini - YUM!
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict - Breakfast of Champions
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef - I have heard that this is divine.
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish - I have cooked it myself, in fact.
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I must confess to having to ask Google about quite a lot of these. :o)

Most of the things on the list I would try, but I'm not real excited about.