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[pseydtonne]

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] mentioned this a few days ago and I had to give it a run:

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 www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

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 (a soft cheese aged only one month made from raw milk)
    
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 (a Piedmontese walnut catsup and anchovy fondue)
    
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
    
39. Gumbo
    
40. Oxtail
    
41. Curried goat
    
42. Whole insects
    
43. Phaal (ultra-hot curry)
    
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 (a Japanese form of dried sour apricot)
    
53. Abalone
    
54. Paneer
    
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal I hate mayo permutations and extra bun
    
56. Spaetzle (freshly-made egg noodles)
    
57. Dirty gin martini
    
58. Beer above 8% ABV
    
59. Poutine
    
60. Carob chips
    
61. S’mores
    
62. Sweetbreads
    
63. Kaolin (grit that makes up Kaopectate)
    
64. Currywurst
    
65. Durian (maybe one day, but ugh the smell!)
    
66. Frogs’ legs
    
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
    
68. Haggis
    
69. Fried plantain
    
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (so THAT'S how you're supposed to spell chitlins!)
    
71. Gazpacho
    
72. Caviar and blini
    
73. Louche absinthe ('louche' means opaque or cloudy)
    
74. Gjetost, or brunost (Norwegian whey cheese)
    
75. Roadkill
    
76. Baijiu (rice wine, rice liquor)
    
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
    
78. Snail
    
79. Lapsang souchong
    
80. Bellini (like a mimosa but it's sparkling wine and peach)
    
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
    
90. Criollo chocolate (highly prized breed of cacao)
    
91. Spam
    
92. Soft shell crab
    
93. Rose harissa (North African hot sauce made from rose petals and chiles)
    
94. Catfish
    
95. Mole poblano
    
96. Bagel and lox
    
97. Lobster Thermidor
    
98. Polenta
    
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
    
100. Snake

There were a good few items I'd never heard of or couldn't distinguish from a generic version. I put empty parentheses after those and will fill them in as I research.

There were also several items I've eaten and will never touch again: sauerkraut, for example.

I've never eaten polenta. This is because I'm half-Sicilian and polenta is a northern Italian thing. If I eat that now, I fear the Northern League will stay in power for a decade instead of a year.

-whoo-hoo, Dante

Comments

[proudlyfallen.livejournal.com]

You've never had a Bellini? I thought that was a common drink... Oh well. Shows what I know, right?

Also, I love sauerkraut. ^_^

[proudlyfallen.livejournal.com]

Also, umeboshi's plum, not apricot, and it's not dried, but pickled. They sell them at Whole Foods, but they're expensive and I haven't been able to justify buying some yet.

And prickly pear... Ugh. Did you have to pick those spines out of your fingers for days? I think I was still finding them under my fingernails a week later. And I was careful, too!

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Gee, maybe I didn't have a prickly pear after all. What did I have?

[proudlyfallen.livejournal.com]

Prickly pears are a cactus. The skin's various shades of green and pink, and it's got a few big spines, and many many many teeny tiny spines that you can barely see. That like to lodge themselves under fingernails, into your skin, etc. The flesh is a really deep, dark hot pink color, which looks really cool... but it doesn't have much flavor. And the texture of a really soft, about to go rotten, apple.

I'm glad I can say I tried it... but it's not something I'd ever bother with again. Heh. What did you have?