Jayne With A Why found this totally pointless but irresistible waste of time: 100 things you may or may not have eaten. It comes from Very Good Taste.
Copy this list, embolden the items you have tried, add sarcastic comments to taste. Then go to Very Good Taste and add to the millions of comments on that post.
2. Nettle tea (nope: I really only like tea that's made out of, like, tea)
3. Huevos rancheros (sounds Spanish - must o' done)
4. Steak tartare (only once though...)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (fried and crunchy)
7. Cheese fondue (why?)
8. Carp (don't think so)
9. Borscht (beetroot, yeuch!)
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J (peanut butter & jelly) 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 (how bizarre)
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (???)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (yueck: used to sell it when I worked on the deli counter at Sainsbury's - it was only ever bought by Martians)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (hottest chilli on the planet, thank you but NO!)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (snot on a shell - not doing it again)
29. Baklava (not doing that again either)
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (?? Lassi I think, yes)
34. Sauerkraut (yes, but, why)
35. Root beer float (root beer with a blob of ice cream? Yepp)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (don't do cigars)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (one of my favourite Spanish dishes is rabo de torro)
41. Curried goat (half a point - roast goat, not curried)
42. Whole insects (no fucking way. Filleted is okay)
43. Phaal (not knowing)
44. Goat’s milk (made into cheese, yes)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (wasted on me - I'd only put Coke in it)
46. Fugu (poisonous fish? feck off)
47. Chicken tikka masala (England's national dish - of course!)
48. Eel (not knowingly)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (bleuch)
50. Sea urchin (bleuch)
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 (sounds good though - gotta lurve dem trans-fats)
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads (I'd rather die)
63. Kaolin (strangely, yes (with morphine, right?))
64. Currywurst (made-up food)
65. Durian ('the smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust...')
66. Frogs’ legs (the waitress who served it was a vegetarian friend, and she explained exactly how they got the legs when she took the order: first and last time)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (despite liking haggis, I couldn't stoop to chitterlings)
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 (the beer, yes, the plant product, no)
89. Horse (not knowingly)
90. Criollo chocolate (???)
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab (too much effort)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
I don't know how they could have omitted the pinnacle of Scottish cuisine:
101. Deep-fried Mars Bar
7 comments:
101 Deep Fried Mars Bars? (conjours up images of trying to scrape it off me dentures and/or trying to prize my jaws apart!
Some very interesting things on the list though I must say. I'll freely admit to being a wuss when it comes to meat & innards stuff. I'd lose weight rapidly if my diet consisted of the things I DON'T eat on that list!
Mine is here.
As well as Mars-bar tempura, how about macaroni pie deep-fried in lard?
FX:Sound of Dr Atkins spinning in his grave.
My score: 58.5/100 (and I've also had #101 the dfMb)
#63-- Do they mean as in Kaopectate (my count is up to 59.5), or do they mean as in small child or pregnant woman with pica eating dirt? (Then no)
#76 -- not sure, but I've had Everclear, which is 170-190 proof grain alcohol, so that's even scarier (if it counts, then 60.5).
#68 -- YOU served me haggis, Keefie, hidden in an unsuspecting turkey cavity one Christmas!
nice stuff!!! i got 27.5 hmm not very impressive eh?
i guess once you take alcohol and pig products.. that cuts out a lot.. funny they added things like calamari and lapsangsouchong.. nothing too fancy about those i think.. as well as goat's milk!! what's so special about that? ok it's not in high demand but everyone must have tried goat's cheese etc...
nice postie , keefie
HMHB, myself and a number of very interesting young exotic dancers from a Latino troupe passing through Dubai shared a number of imbibements last night over a dish of wasabi peas as we celebrated a year of Fat Expatting...
Just thought you'd like to know that...
I've done my list here
Keefie, you may recognise one of my images!
Good God! Unfortunately, I have attempted so many of these things. Is this what happens when we expatriate to the Middle East and holiday from there?!
Thankfully, I have never tried the National Dish of Glasgow - the Fried Mars Bar.
My heart thanks me, too.
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