Food meme

The rules of the meme: bold those you have tried, strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.


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

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (aka blood pudding or blood sausage)
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 [ahem. lactose intolerant]
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
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda [never had it, but it sounds good!]
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (is that a different version of mango lassi? I've had that.)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I used to be part of a cigar-and-networking club)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly (red/white wine jelly, yes. Vodka jelly, no.)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal [see #26]
44. Goat’s milk [again with the high-lactose items!]
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (aka pufferfish)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi [there are a lot of Japanese items on this list...]
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini [not a martini fan, but I've tasted it.]
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine [uuuugh. cheese curds on my french fries? no thank you!]
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs (No Kermit legs, please)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (aka chitlin's)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost [and even more cheese!]
75. Roadkill [I suppose it would depend on what kind of animal and how much gravel was embedded in 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
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse [I've eaten camel, does that count?]
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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