I’m not much for meme games, but I couldn’t resist this list of 100 foods to try, which I saw first on Karan’s blog and then also on Solonor’s blog.
You’ve played this game before — just highlight the ones you’ve eaten. Karan also crossed out ones she would never eat, but there was only one thing on this list that I would not eat (roadkill). Solonor added a couple more variations, but I skipped those. Bottom line for me, 70 out of the 100 things on this list have crossed my lips at least once. Several of the things are among my all-time favorite foods, a few were specialities introduced to me in cooking school, and one was completely by accident (alligator). A few of the more exotic things I had to look up
Here’s my pass:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (well, alligator, actually)
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 (just shavings on top of a pasta dish, but still…)
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
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
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
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
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
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. (in Paris, no less)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
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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Roadkill is the only thing here not on your menu. Good call!
My friends and I played that game on a private message board and the only thing I ruled out was whole insects. You’d be up for that? I’d eat venison roadkill. I guess.
You gotta get on that borscht. I’m of Eastern European ancestry and used to have it homemade by my grandma. That is some seriously good stuff.
I don’t know if I could eat those squishy grubs that the Survivorman guy eats, but I could eat crunchy bugs like they keep showing on the Olympics.
I’m sure I would like borscht, I’ve just never had the chance to try it.
You’ve had aloo gobi – at the indian place in Portland from my plate the first time we went.
How do you remember what you ate in some random Indian place almost 15 years ago?
Brian…have you no romance in your bones?
Apparently not.