Sunday, September 7, 2008

Food Meme

I got this one from Peter over at Tippin' The Scales.

1) Bold all the items you have eaten.
2) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

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
- still have one now and then especially when low on funds.
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 - only once and they were quite remarkable
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras - once, but no more.
24. Rice and beans - I'm from New Orleans.
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters

29. Baklava - delicious in small quantities
30. Bagna cauda - used to make my own in my previous life.
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi -
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - ah those memories.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - Cognac… yes, I hate the smell of cigars.
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 £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - don't care for them.
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
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs - I'm from New Orleans
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - yes, and oh yes. (it's spelled Andouille - forget the "tte")
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 - nasturtiums and carnations
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - as often as I can get it. Sauted or broiled is best.
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish - I'm from New Orleans...
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox - you forgot the cream cheese
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake - once was enough.

I think that's about 63 % and please take into account that I couldn't reformat a few of the entries, blogger you know...but you get the idea.

Feel free to snip this and add it to you own site. We learn more about one another in these painless, little ways.

And so it goes.
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5 comments:

  1. Yes, isn't it curious how lists of simple things can tell us so much about each other.

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  2. Man, that's some list. Many on it I don't even know what they are. If I were more mobile I guess I could travel more and learn all about these foods.
    I'm going to think twice before I invite you over for a very mundane American meal.

    JJT

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  3. Lapsang souchong you may have had if you have ate in any bad chinese restaurants.

    In our house we have the expression "I am so hungry I could eat snake".
    Like you I have never had any. I don't intend to have any.

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  4. I DID eat snake - once. I was in TexASS and 15 years old. Like that old Sondheim song "I never do anything twice" and while in many cases I have, not in this one.

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  5. After reading this I suddenly realize that my culinary life has been a sheltered on. Living in New York it's not as if I don't have opportunities.
    Say, when are you coming up to the city again? Maybe we could have lunch together some place exotic, at least exotic for me.
    THC

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