Omnivorousness

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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:



1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
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 (but for fancy raw-milk cheese locally, check out Greener Pastures at area farmer's markets)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (There's someone selling excellent heirloom tomatoes cheap at the Kingsfield Farmer's Market)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (Or Cajun variants thereof.)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (both raw and Rockefeller)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (I don't know if I've ever eaten chowder out of a bread bowl. I've certainly eaten other soups out of a bread bowl.)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (Cigars are not food.)
37. Clotted cream tea (If you ever go to Cornwall, cream tea is mandatory.)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I would consider it but the bug would need to be small. Or at least not a deep fried scorpion on a stick.) (Come to think of it I've had small bugs fly into my mouth and swallowed instead of spitting them out, but listing that here seems like cheating.)
43. Phaal (I just looked that up and no thank. Hotter than hell is not my cup of tea.)
44. Goat's milk (I've never had this, but I've had water buffalo milk)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (Just a sip. Fancy whiskey is wasted on me.)
46. Fugu (I will pass on the "actually might kill you" dishes, TYVM.)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi (I think I've had this; the description sounds like something I tried once)
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (I've made this)
55. McDonalds Big Mac Meal (I have eaten at McDs many times, but I've never gotten a Big Mac. Quarter Pounder, yes, but not a Big Mac).
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips BLEAH.
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (Google says this is a form of clay. Is that on here as a joke?)
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 (I may have had it; I know we've had it in the house, but Ed is the main tea-drinker)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum (Ed makes this. It's fabulous.)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (For unique food-like stocking stuffers, check your local Asian grocery store!)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare as in bunny? I've eaten bunny. I like it best Belgian-style, with stewed plums.
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab (Sea Salt sells a soft shell crab sandwich that's really good)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake


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...

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

It's a really random list. I can't figure out how it was assembled.

I was so disappointed with yak butter tea. I had high hopes for it, too. Yak meat was pretty good, though.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Kaolin is china clay. Sold as "kaolin and morphine" it's used to settle stomachs - although I haven't seen it for years. I've definitely had it in the past (and it works).

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Carob is gross. I seriously had no idea that people associated it with vegetarians until recently and now one of my life's goals is to break that association.

[servant-of-clio.livejournal.com]

I actually think carob tastes ok in and of itself. It's if you attempt to view it as a substitute for chocolate that it's sadly lacking. There just is no substitute for chocolate.

[imponderabilias.livejournal.com]

Kaolin is the major ingredient in Kaopectate (diarrhea medicine).

In Peru, clay is actually mixed with (or used in a sauce for) somewhat toxic varieties of potatoes; the clay neutralizes the acid.

Apparently many people in the Andes think our non-toxic potatoes are watery and tasteless (they are also much more vulnerable to insect predation).

[imponderabilias.livejournal.com]

Meant to link to an article or two:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114046611/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8225438_ITM