Combining Two Of My Favorite Things!

[cinema_babe]

Food and Memes!

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

The rules of the meme: bold those you have tried, strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.

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
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
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
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
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine  In New Jersey we call them "Disco Fries". I don't know why.
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs I thought they were chicken wings; sorry Kermit :(
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
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Comments

[ishitpinecones.livejournal.com]

So was Kobe beef as awesome as everyone says it is?

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

Truth in advertising, what I actually had was Wagyu beef which is the same cow only it comes from TX and they raise it with a diet and regimen close to what they use in Japan.

And yes, oh god yes.

The fat is distributed all through the meat, as opposed to being in little chunks. That means that when you hit the sweet spot temperature of about medium, medium, rare, the fat melts and gives the meat an unctuous mouthfeel and spreads a big beefy flavor all throughout the steak.

Heh, Nice icon!

[catwithbell.livejournal.com]

I was actually surprised to find I have eaten things that you have not.

But why would you not try Fresh wild berries? O.i

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

I'm allergic to most berries; what I call the seedy ones: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and the like. They render me quite red and splochy.

[catwithbell.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite a good reason then!

How about blueberries, boysenberries, elderberries, and the like? With all those nice internal seeds?

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

Not boysenberries, they're a raspberry hybrid, I like blueberries in baked goods and I've had elderberry wine but I don't think it was very good.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Do you avoid all pork? I'm trying to come up with plausible reasons for avoiding huevos rancheros. Combined with andouille (could be nix on sausages) and eggs benedict (could be many thhings), pork is what I'm coming up with. All three of those are quite good, by the way.

Hmm. You've had pork buns. So what could be objectionable about huevos rancheros?

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

I'm not that fond of tomato sauce (except in certain dishes) but the main
reason.....

I loathe eggs.

(Actually, that's only mostly true. There's one way I'll eat eggs and it's so gross and overcooked that I won't eat them in front of another human being. Oh yeah, I drink egg nog too, but if I think about what it is I will and have thrown up. It's a consistency thing.)

Ditto with eggs benedict. Andouille is *way* too spicy and salty for my tastes.

As a general rule I *love* pork. Pigs tremble with fear if they hear I'm in the vicinity. :P