From Wandering Coyote’s fabulous food blog Retorte, a fabulous food “me-me”.
Here’s what to do:
- Copy the following 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.
I’ve tried 60 out of 100. How about you?
(I’ve linked to the ones I had to look up)
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
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 [ick!]
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda [not yet!]
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam Chowder in Soudough Bowl
33. Salted Lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac
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 $120 or more
46. Fugu (aka pufferfish)
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 [huh?]
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snails
79. Lapsang Souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom Yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu
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
casa azahar 
Wow – you did way better than I did, in both things you’ve eaten and things you’re willing to eat! I feel so unsophisticated now!
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Hey, BTW, you’re in Spain…what do you make of that lemon shortage I was talking about? Are you affected much at all?
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I only get 48 that I’ve eaten. And I think I may have eaten some rattlesnake, so make that 49. Half the stuff I haven’t eaten, I have no freaking idea what it is, and would have to look it up. I have eaten haggis, but just on a lark to see what it was. And I hate Scotch, so that’s out. Other than that an fugu, I’m pretty open. Pass the fried grasshoppers, please.
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Good lord, I’ve eaten nearly all of these. Except the ones I don’t recognize and horse. I even had dog once.
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Okay, I’ve just made it a bit easier by linking to the ones I had to look up, which I should have done while I was looking them up in the first place (duh).
I hadn’t noticed there was a lemon shortage, WC, but it seems to be mostly affecting the production of lemon juice, which I don’t buy.
Did you like haggis, Silverstar? I’ve always been curious to try it though, like black pudding, I think I would only ever eat it very sparingly.
What was dog like, Rain? Did you know it was dog before you ate it?
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azahar you really must try Pho and Wasabi Peas (but not together)
what’s Head Cheese? is it related to smegma?
Eewwwwww
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Not quite, nursemyra, but it’s definitely as vile as smegma.
Head cheese
Really, it’s even worse than it sounds.
How many food items on the list have you tried?
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Great list az! I’m not 100% sure how many of those I’ve managed, but my count came to 48 maybe plus or minus a few. Tom Yum is definitely worth a try! Bagna Cauda I’ve been meaning to make for years now, and still haven’t got round to it. Have you tried clam chowder not in a sourdough bowl? If not, do so if you get the opportunity! Yum!
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Dog was like really dry beef, actually. Not like chicken at all. Although, given it was dark meat I think they gave me the bum. And I ordered it specifically because it was dog. I’m with my mother; if you travel to an exotic country and don’t eat at least one thing that disgusts you, you weren’t really there.
She ate sheep’s eyes when she was in Saudi Arabia, and she said they were just as nasty as you’d expect.
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Dan, I wonder if you’re the only one I know who’s had a 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu.
I adore clam chowder (new england as opposed to manhattan) but have yet to have it in a sourdough bowl. Eating the bread after it’s soaked up the chowder must be amazing. And Tom Yum also looks very yum indeed.
I’d probably try dog, but not sheep’s eyes *shudder*.
I have tried deep-fried testicles and brains here and they weren’t bad – couldn’t have eaten a whole plate of them though.
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And not just once but thrice! 🙂 But it is something everyone who loves food should try at least once.
I had the clam chowder in a sourdough bowl thing in San Francisco when I was there – it seemed to be a very popular tourist thing because there were a gazillion places doing it. And yeah, eating the bread was great. But I love chowder so I was kind of wishing there was more chowder and less bread. No pleasing some people, eh?
If you don’t have a Thai restaurant near you, you can actually make a pretty passable tom yum from a premade paste. It’s not the real thing, but it’s not too bad. Watch out though ‘cos it’s HOT.
I tried brains once, basically just not very interesting rather than disgusting or anything. Sweetbreads on the other hand… yum!
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I got 79. Some of the things I have tried are now on my Wouldn’t eat at all list — like the Krispy Kreme doughnut. I’ve never had a jello shot and never will, not because I don’t like vodka but because I am not interested in combining it with artificial flavor and artificial color.
I’ve had several 3 star tasting menus courtesy of the cruise industry. Man oh man, I love good food.
Now, come on, head cheese is just basically a sausage without casing. I notice that moose head soup was not on the list, I have had the misfortune to have it served to me while on Arctic Chamber Orchestra tour. Basically, you take the head of the moose and boil it until all the meat and brains fall off of it, and then serve it. It was not bad tasting, just totally bland; I thought it could have used some salt, onions, celery, and carrots and then it would have been quite good.
Never have had sweetbreads; I refuse to eat kidneys and will only eat the liver of an animal I knew personally, since the job of the liver is to detoxify and process toxins. A non-organic liver is likely to be full of carcinogens and other bad stuff.
My grandfather used to try the manliness of his daughter’s fiancees by having them help him butcher a calf before breakfast and then serving fried calf’s brains to them. My father was the only one who “passed” that test, and I believe that I would not. Of course, that was long before Mad Cow disease showed up.
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“But it is something everyone who loves food should try at least once.”
Okay, Dan, you can take me to El Bulli if you ever come to visit. 🙂
“Now, come on, head cheese is just basically a sausage without casing.”
I beg to differ, hmh. It is a disgusting gelatinous mess of quivering mystery meat chunks and tastes vile. Even the name is disgusting. *shudder* But I’m with you on jello shots.
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oh so head cheese is brawn, I’ve eaten that. I think I’ve had maybe 88 of the other dishes. I’ve not knowingly eaten roadkill but I have had kangaroo while in the country so it’s possible….
I don’t know anywhere that serves fugu but I’d like to try it some day. not really interested in kaolin 🙂
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There’s a place near me that makes head cheese in such a way that the uh “particles” are arranged in concentric rings set in gelatin. It’s like a rose window of pig death.
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Oh man, if I could only get a booking! That place is seriously hard to get a reservation at. They get something like a two hundred times more requests than they can fill and the entire year’s worth of reservations are made within a couple of days of them taking requests. 😦
Now on the other hand if you’re ever coming to Paris…
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I make it just 17 (definite), with two or three more possibles. Sad or what?
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Haggis, unless you were born in Scotland and raised on it, is definitely an acquired taste. I ate it at a Highland Games just to be able to say I had. Once was enough.
What I like, that’s difficult to get anymore, and not on the list is beef tongue. We used to have it all the time, supermarkets would sell it cheap when I was a kid. Now you can’t find it unless you go to a butcher shop, and then they want three prices for it.
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“It’s like a rose window of pig death.”
Yum!
I was thinking of the El Bulli near Sevilla, Dan, in the Hacienda Benazuza.
“Sad or what?”
Sad. Very sad… 😛
You could find beef tongue here pretty cheap, Silverstar, but I guess the airfare would cancel that out.
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73. I was surprised how many I had to look up. I like weird food. Weird good food.
We used to eat beef tongue and heart back in the olden days. It was cheap. Beef liver not so much, but occasionally. Chicken livers and hearts pretty often. Wouldn’t eat liver at all now unless I raised the animal myself. I’m with you, healingmagichands.
I did my first and only jello shots with my mom in Vegas. They were gross, tasting of artificial colors/sweeteners and bad vodka. I’m sure it would be possible to make better ones, but I’ve never felt compelled to do it.
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I got about 47.
I started to leave a long comment before, but seem not to have actually submitted it. I seem to recall that I was surprised the number was as high as it is, seeing as I stopped eating meat 19 years ago. It would seem that I was fairly adventurous with trying the meaty things in my childhood and adolescence.
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Hey nice! You showed me that before but I forgot all about it. 🙂
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80 out of 100
http://mudhooks.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-dear-friend-az-posted-this-on-her.html
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And I happen to like head-cheese. With cheese…
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Make that 81. I have eaten insects, even if not intentionally. I have swallowed a few moths in my time while cycling and a HUGE one while swimming.
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49
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50 out of the 100. Hadn’t realized it would be that high; and I’m another inadvertent bug eater. I hate bugs.
Definitely go for the Tom Yum if you get a chance, and the Pho. Tom Yum is good, even if it is hot!
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You, you have eaten a lot of stuff!
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Hi magpie and welcome! 🙂
I guess I have eaten a lot of stuff, though not as much as I’d like to.
Oh, and inadvertently swallowing bugs doesn’t count.
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