Omnivorousness

Seen all over:

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) Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.

The VGT Omnivore's Hundred:

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IMO, this list needs less alcohol and more exotic food. Nowhere on there do they mention entrails -- not intestine, not tripe. They mention goat's milk but not sheep, camel, yak, or water buffalo milk, nor do they mention salted yak's milk tea, a traditional Tibetan drink that weirds out the westerners. Pocky is nowhere near as weird as a spider roll, and while they ask about catfish and carp, they don't ask about sashimi or things with the heads still looking at you. Black pudding was on there but not English sausage (second only to English hamburgers as the scariest food I've ever eaten, far scarier than curried goat intestine, which I've also eaten). Sauerkraut was on there but not kim chee. A three-star Michelin meal but not an MRE. Venison but not tofu.

I wrote an omnivore's purity test once, but I can't remember if I ever posted it to my LJ...

My Omnivore's Inventory

OK, I wrote this up a while ago and then never posted it, but I like my version better than the meme currently in circulation, so here it is.

1. Hve you ever eaten artichoke?
2. Okra?
3. Cactus?
4. Kumquats?
5. Persimmon?
6. Star fruit?
7. Turnip or mustard greens?
8. Have you eaten a habanero pepper?
9. More than once?
10. Have you ever eaten dandelions?
11. Have you eaten ferns?
12. Have you eaten cat tails?
13. Have you eaten food made from crab apples?
14. Acorns?
15. From other items considered inedible to humans?
16. Have you ever eaten something harvested while hiking?
17. Have you ever eaten a mushroom you picked yourself?
18. Have you ever eaten something despite not being absolutely certain it wasn't toxic??
19. Have you ever accidentally poisoned yourself?
20. Have you eaten tofu?
21. Have you ever eaten a Tofurkey?
22. Have you ever eaten soy cheese, or another non-dairy cheese substitute?
23. Have you ever eaten a non-dairy ice cream substitute?
24. Have you drunk soy milk?
25. Have you eaten limburger cheese?
26. Unpasteurized cheese?
27. Have you ever drunk raw milk?
28. Have you ever drunk goat's milk?
29. Sheep's milk?
30. Yak's milk?
31. Other milk that came from neither a cow nor a human being?
32. Have you tasted either human milk or baby formula as an adult?
33. Have you ever eaten goat?
34. Have you ever eaten rabbit?
35. Have you ever eaten buffalo?
36. Water buffalo?
37. Pheasant?
38. Quail?
39. Ostrich?
40. Emu?
41. Venison?
42. Elk?
43. Moose?
44. Bear?
45. Kangaroo?
46. Snake?
47. Alligator?
48. Frog?
49. Raccoon?
50. Squirrel?
51. Muskrat or nutria?
52. Possum?
53. Rat?
54. Horse?
55. Dog?
56. Have you ever eaten a fish that still had its head attached?
57. Did you eat any of the meat in the head?
58. Did you just say, "yeah, of course, that's the best part"?
59. Have you eaten squid?
60. Octopus?
61. Eel?
62. Oysters?
63. Were they raw?
64. Have you eaten sashimi, or sushi that contained raw fish?
65. Have you eaten caviar?
66. Have you eaten a whole lobster (the kind you have to pry out of its shell)?
67. Crab in its shell?
68. Soft-shelled crab?
69. Sea urchin?
70. Jellyfish?
71. Have you ever eaten snails?
72. Have you ever eaten an insect?
73. Intentionally?
74. Big enough that you had to chew it up?
75. How about insect larvae?
76. Have you ever eaten something just to impress another person with what you'll eat?
77. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that species before?
78. Have you ever eaten something just because you'd never eaten that body part before?
79. Have you ever eaten liver?
80. Have you ever eaten intestines?
81. Have you ever eaten kidneys (a.k.a. "sweetbreads")?
82. Have you ever eaten brain?
83. Have you ever eaten tongue?
84. Have you ever eaten an eyeball?
85. Have you ever eaten a testicle?
86. Have you ever eaten a foot?
87. Did it look recognizably like a foot while you were eating it?
88. Have you ever killed an animal and then eaten it?
89. Have you ever killed a bird or mammal and then eaten it?
90. Have you ever given an animal a name, and later eaten it?
91. Have you ever eaten lutefisk?
92. Haggis?
93. Blood sausage?
94. Black pudding?
95. British sausage?
96. Marmite?
97. Scrapple?
98. Chitlins?
99. MREs?
100. Have you ever eaten something completely unfamiliar (e.g., you were in a foreign country, and ate some food presented to you without knowing what it was)?

The idea here is that you don't give the whole checklist, but instead do it purity-test style: you start with 100, deduct 1 point for every "yes," and then brag about your score like you did in college ("ooooh, I am SO CORRUPT you probably don't want to associate with me...")

My score was 44 and then I remembered a bunch of things I'd eaten. I have edited: my score is 39, which means I've eaten 61 of the listed items. (OK, OK, it's more fun to brag when you're specific. I'll give my answers below the cut.)

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