Thus confirming that I will try ANYTHING once

[gemfyre]

Even coffee, but nothing high chilli - because I know it will only register as pain.

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronome Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
1) bold those you have tried
2) strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
2b) Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea*
3. Huevos rancheros*
4. Steak tartare*
5. Crocodile
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp*
9. Borscht*
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari - hah, I often get this with my fish and chips
12. Pho*
13. PB&J sandwich - I hate peanut butter
14. Aloo gobi* - I have tried similar things already
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 - have some in my freezer at home
20. Pistachio ice cream - I don't get it
21. Heirloom tomatoes* - I've eaten plenty of my mum's homegrown tomatoes, do they count?
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras*
24. Rice and beans* - When I go to Costa Rica, oh yes.
25. Brawn, or head cheese* - I'll try it once, but I think it will make me retch.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche*
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda*
31. Wasabi peas*
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - well, honestly, I haven't had the sourdough bowl yet.
33. Salted lassi* - I haven't been brave enough to get a salted one yet, but I love sweet mango lassi.
34. Sauerkraut - proper homemade Estonian style.
35. Root beer float - I hate root beer/sarsparilla, but I HAVE had spiders (Aussie word for floats) plenty of times with other drinks.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - I'd try the cognac, but I'll pass on the cigar thanks
37. Clotted cream tea*
38. Vodka jelly (he means jello shots)
39. Gumbo*
40. Oxtail*
41. Curried goat*
42. Whole insects*
43. Phaal - too hot for me sorry.
44. Goat’s milk*
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more*
46. Fugu* - Just once
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%*
59. Poutine*
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores*
62. Sweetbreads*
63. Kaolin* - why would you eat this on it's own? Maybe after you had fugu.
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*
80. Bellini*
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*
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab*
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano - I have had mole, but it wasn't too hot
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor*
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee*
100. Snake*

Comments

[aequanoctis.livejournal.com]

Head Cheese is common stuff here, and it deeeeelicious!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I think you'd really like criollo chocolate.

[indescribble.livejournal.com]

I have some nettle tea. The herb shop with all the jars in the Fremantle markets sells it.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

I propose a new rule:

5) Underline anything you've never heard of.

(I did that in my entry - 20% I've never even heard of. And 63% never even tried. Bah. Strange foods are overrated anyway)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I Googled the ones I didn't know. :)

Like bagel and lox - I've never ever heard it called that but I have indeed had it (smoked salmon and cream cheese on a bagel).