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That Food List
There is a list going round of 100 things that a British publication considers to be interesting and/or exotic food that people should at least try once.
I've eaten quite a lot of them (with a few notable exceptions): my-mother-the-dietician would often bring home unusual foods (well, uncommon on the British dinner table in the early 1980s); then I read somewhere that every year you eat a new food after the age of 35 extends your life expectancy by a year (which probably indicates a correlation between open-mindedness and lifespan rather than the foods themselves helping) and have been keen to try new foodstuffs. So:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at the originating site linking to your results.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - A divine breakfast :-)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
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
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese - I would not have eaten the brawn if my mother had called it 'head cheese'!
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - Would not try again now my curiosity has been satisfied. Some other type of pepper, maybe...
27. Dulce de leche - I would totally try this even though it contains the evil dairy products.
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda - but I do have a recipe (in my Babylon 5 cookbook; also for Flarn)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34.Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - with iced tofu dessert rather than vanilla ice cream. Not keen on the root beer.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
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 - just a sip. Blech!
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads - though I did sit next to people who ate sweetbreads a couple of weeks ago. Why is it that sweetbreads are a type of meat, and sweetmeats are often a type of bread or pastry?
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - smelt a fresh one, ate some dried.
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantains
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - Norwegian room party!
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - but I have eaten a Twinkie. It's probably still in my stomach somewhere, those things are imperishable.
78. Snails
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 - jugged.
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - very nice bean
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
Am now off to Tesco :-)
I've eaten quite a lot of them (with a few notable exceptions): my-mother-the-dietician would often bring home unusual foods (well, uncommon on the British dinner table in the early 1980s); then I read somewhere that every year you eat a new food after the age of 35 extends your life expectancy by a year (which probably indicates a correlation between open-mindedness and lifespan rather than the foods themselves helping) and have been keen to try new foodstuffs. So:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at the originating site linking to your results.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - A divine breakfast :-)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
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
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese - I would not have eaten the brawn if my mother had called it 'head cheese'!
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - Would not try again now my curiosity has been satisfied. Some other type of pepper, maybe...
27. Dulce de leche - I would totally try this even though it contains the evil dairy products.
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda - but I do have a recipe (in my Babylon 5 cookbook; also for Flarn)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34.Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - with iced tofu dessert rather than vanilla ice cream. Not keen on the root beer.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
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 - just a sip. Blech!
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads - though I did sit next to people who ate sweetbreads a couple of weeks ago. Why is it that sweetbreads are a type of meat, and sweetmeats are often a type of bread or pastry?
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - smelt a fresh one, ate some dried.
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantains
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - Norwegian room party!
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - but I have eaten a Twinkie. It's probably still in my stomach somewhere, those things are imperishable.
78. Snails
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 - jugged.
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - very nice bean
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
Am now off to Tesco :-)