Food Meme

[kiyakotari]

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. Put in italics the ones you haven't had but WANT to try.

Ganked from calalillith, who ganked from radiotrash, and so on.


1. Venison (Grew up with this and elk as the staple meats in my diet. Have some of both in my freezer right now, in fact.)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (We called it blood sausage, but...yeah.)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (The American staple can blow me.)
14. Aloo gobi (I love Indian food. Only spicy foods I can stomach. Go figure.)
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Époisses de Bourgogne (Had to look this up. I love cheeses. I want to try this.)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (I don't consume alcohol. Though I've had the opportunity to have this many times - my father made kiwi wine, for example.)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream (Oh god pistachios - YUCK.)
21. Heirloom tomatoes (I dislike tomatoes, as a general rule. I don't think I have ever had these.)
22. Fresh wild berries (I grew up in the pacific northwest...this is berry central. Thimmbleberries are my favorites. Salmonberries are kind of blah. Huckleberries and those teensy-tiny wild strawberries are pretty good.)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (Hell no. I would stop breathing.)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (Yes, and I almost puked.)
29. Baklava (Love it - in small doses. It's so sweet, I can't handle very much.)
30. Bagna cauda (No, but now I need to. Sounds delicious.)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (Yes, and it was nasty. Never again.)
35. Root beer float (Yum. Now I want one.)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (Do not consume alcohol...or smoke.)
37. Clotted cream tea (Made this in Girl Scouts. It was tasty.)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (Again with the alcohol! Though I did try a sip of vodka, as a child.)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (I spent way too long on a farm to be comfortable eating something that was that close to a cow's anus.)
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects covered in chocolate (As long as ants count...yes. They were unremarkable.)
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more (Why is alcohol even on this list...it's NOT A FOOD, it's a drug.)
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala (One of my favorites.)
48. Eel (Another favorite.)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi (I don't like this.)
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 (Dirt isn't up there on my list of things to try.)
64. Currywurst (Daniel says, "That stuff is fucking delicious," so it's on my list of to-try foods.)
65. Durian
66. Frogs' Legs (Frogs are pets, not food!!) TT_TT
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (I have had multiple items in this list.)
68. Haggis (FUCK yes. I love this. We celebrate Robbie Burns' birthday, every year!)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (No. Just...no.)
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (I have had caviar and blini, but never together...does that count?)
73. Louche absinthe (ARGH.)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (Uncle hit a deer.)
76. Baijiu (No. Alcohol.)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong (I like tea.)
80. Bellini (Alcohol again.)
81. Tom yum (I don't think I've ever had this, but it looks delicious!!)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (Three-what?)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (You know, I don't think I ever have had hare or rabbit!)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse (This has historically been considered "poor man's meat" for a reason.)
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab (I adore spider rolls.)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano (Mom used to make this. It was nasty.)
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (Not big on alcohol as an ingredient, either, though I do make exceptions in SOME cases.)
98. Polenta (Yum!)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (Don't drink coffee. It makes me nauseous.)
100. Snake (Again - pet, not food.)