for the foodies, like myself.
I took this idea from another friend's blog.
The Omnivore's 100
The bolded items items are the ones I have eaten. The ones crossed-out are items that I would never consider eating. Those untouched are still on my "to try" list. The more obscure ones I have included links to, so you can read the despcription on Wikipedia, whether I have tried it or not.
1. Venison (delicious...especially love the venison jerkey made by my uncles- a Thanksgiving treat)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (not as fabulous as tuna tartare, but still delicious)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (absolutely not!)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
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 (Yuck!)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (one of the absolute best things about summer)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or Head cheese (yuck!!!)
26. Raw Scotch Bonner pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (LOVE!!!- especially with a dollop of cocktail sauce made with LOTS of horseradish and a saltine)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (would LOVE to...sounds delicious)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl
33. Salted Lassi
34. Sauerkraut (I can eat it by the spoonfuls:)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (jello shots, right?)
39. Gumbo (a MUST on the Gulf Coast- LOVE it)
40. Oxtail (in oxtail soup from Matt Murphy's in Boston)
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phall
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth quite a bit of money
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (especially tasty after a long run)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abelone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (extra dirty, please)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (do you really eat this?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frog's legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cakes
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Absinthe (we had this in Prague...wasn't so impressed)
74. Gjetost
75. Roadkill
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a 3-Michelin-star restaurant (yes, please!)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers (make salads so pretty)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish (obviously, I am from the panhandle)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox (Sunday morning favorite from Belly)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake