Random survey

I’ve been pretty low on content at the moment so the following from Denman…

“ Here’s what I want you to do:

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) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results. „

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The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred – I got 70%

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (Cochon!)
6. Black pudding – The Butcher Shop
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (out of the pond in a close family friend’s yard)
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari (TGIFriday’s)
12. Pho (somewhere in Falls Church in the early 90s or Pho Saigon in Langley Park during college)
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 (plum wine during Thanksgiving some time in college)
19. Steamed pork buns (I’m Asian!)
20. Pistachio ice cream (woot Friendly’s!)
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 (tea at the Ritz)
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 (Europe trip after HS)
48. Eel (aunt’s house)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (fresh, hot donuts near Wilmington, DE)
50. Sea urchin (Kotobuki – I think it had gone bad)
51. Prickly pear (the juice, at some point)
52. Umeboshi (some variation on pickled plums early in life and recently)
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 (why?!)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs (Chinese restaurant in Boston at my cousin’s rehearsal dinner)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (best funnel cake at White Marsh Mall when I was a kid)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (my sister and bro-in-law brought home an enormous tin of smuggled caviar from Ukraine for Thanksgiving)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (visit to Spain)
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum (British-Singaporean-Chinese friend made it for me)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (French Laundry!)
85. Kobe beef (French Laundry)
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish (too many times to count as a child)
95. Mole poblano (for some potluck at church as a kid)
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (aunt’s)
100. Snake