Saturday
20Sep2008
Omnivore's 100
Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 8:37AM
The Very Good Taste Omnivore’s Hundred:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yeah, I know about about 2 years late on this theme, and that thousands of similar themes have come and gone. However, I wanted to know how many I'd tried, and I figured I'd share with you, as you haven't heard from me in forever. I'll do a real post to make up for it, I promise.
* - So, about 75: It's generally a bad idea to eat something if you don't know why it died. If you're the one who ran over the otherwise perfectly healthy critter, than all well and good. If you see a critter dead on the road, leave it be. That's the way Bird Flu starts, when something particularly virulent kills a creature, and you go ingesting it in order to see if perhaps you can give the virus or bacteria enough chances to mutate into something that works for your species. Gross, I know, but I'm not the one who put "Roadkill" on the Omnivore 100.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yeah, I know about about 2 years late on this theme, and that thousands of similar themes have come and gone. However, I wanted to know how many I'd tried, and I figured I'd share with you, as you haven't heard from me in forever. I'll do a real post to make up for it, I promise.
* - So, about 75: It's generally a bad idea to eat something if you don't know why it died. If you're the one who ran over the otherwise perfectly healthy critter, than all well and good. If you see a critter dead on the road, leave it be. That's the way Bird Flu starts, when something particularly virulent kills a creature, and you go ingesting it in order to see if perhaps you can give the virus or bacteria enough chances to mutate into something that works for your species. Gross, I know, but I'm not the one who put "Roadkill" on the Omnivore 100.
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Reader Comments (4)
I had no idea what "VGT Omnivore 100" was, so I had to look it up. Turns out it's It's a list of foods that, according to "Very Good Taste" British food bloggers, everyone should try at least once.
Wait a second... You've never had clam chowder in a sourdough bowl? It's fantastic! A lot easier to find than crocodile and haggis and those other things, too. And I recommend currywurst, as well, but it has to be "proper" currywurst, meaning obtained from a street vendor in Germany!
Heh, sorry. I had meant to link to the original. I will update the post with appropriate links.
I have had clam chowder before, but not in a sourdough bowl. It is the way of things.
A trip to a decent Japanese restaurant should get you numbers 18, 50 and 52, at least, if not also 42, 46 and 89.