Omnivore's Hundred Thing

Perusing food blogs eventually lands you at the Omnivore's Dilemma list, a compilation of foods that one blogger thinks every "good omnivore" has tried at least once.

I thought it was interesting and maybe you might too. Or not. Don't particularly care, I just really like lists. I added some side notes for your entertainment. The purple ones are dishes I have tasted.

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 (Baba ghanooooooooooouusssshhh!)
11. Calamari
12. Pho (prounouced "f-uh" for crying out loud)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (the lady on 13th and Kincaid wins my heart)
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 (yuck)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (heeyy babbyy)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (incidentally, I graduated Magna Cum Laude)
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/Jell-O (dear Kate Nix, you are my downfall)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (and cheese and meat)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more (damn, I wish)
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala (fave)
48. Eel (actually had it raw the other night)
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 (*sigh* Oregon, I miss you)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (mmmm vegan)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (what's that smell, sort of like rotting flesh and sewer? oh, it's that...)
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 (uh...wtf?)
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

There you have it. I seem to have done quite well...nearly half methinks and I'm still young! Some of these I will not try, namely roadkill, but others I can get to during my travels!

ellen