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Aug. 18th, 2008 06:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonne[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] mentioned this a few days ago and I had to give it a run:
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
- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
- Bold all the items you've eaten.
- Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
- Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
- Venison
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile
- Black pudding
- Cheese fondue
- Carp
- Borscht
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses (a soft cheese aged only one month made from raw milk)
- Black truffle
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- Steamed pork buns
- Pistachio ice cream
- Heirloom tomatoes
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
- Dulce de leche
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda (a Piedmontese walnut catsup and anchovy fondue)
- Wasabi peas
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut
- Root beer float
- Cognac with a fat cigar
- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects
- Phaal (ultra-hot curry)
- Goat’s milk
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more.
-
Fugu - Chicken tikka masala
- Eel
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi (a Japanese form of dried sour apricot)
- Abalone
- Paneer
-
McDonald’s Big Mac MealI hate mayo permutations and extra bun - Spaetzle (freshly-made egg noodles)
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV
- Poutine
- Carob chips
- S’mores
- Sweetbreads
- Kaolin (grit that makes up Kaopectate)
- Currywurst
- Durian (maybe one day, but ugh the smell!)
- Frogs’ legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- Haggis
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings, or andouillette (so THAT'S how you're supposed to spell chitlins!)
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini
- Louche absinthe ('louche' means opaque or cloudy)
- Gjetost, or brunost (Norwegian whey cheese)
- Roadkill
- Baijiu (rice wine, rice liquor)
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- Snail
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini (like a mimosa but it's sparkling wine and peach)
- Tom yum
- Eggs Benedict
- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers
- Horse
- Criollo chocolate (highly prized breed of cacao)
- Spam
- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa (North African hot sauce made from rose petals and chiles)
- Catfish
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- 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
