A British foodie site has come up with a list of what it calls The Omnivore's 100 -- a hundred foods that everyone should try at least once in their life. I've posted the list on the extended entry, with the foods from it that I've tried in boldface. How do you fare? If everybody cuts and pastes their own list into a combox entry, the entries will stretch into infinity. My suggestion: take a look at the list, and if anything strikes you as comment-worthy out of your own omnivorous experience, weigh in. It's a fun list, so take a look after the jump...
My surprises from the list: I can't believe I've gotten to the ripe old age of 41 and not yet tried caviar, soft-shell crab, or snails. But you know, I will go to my grave never having eaten head cheese, snake, horse, steak tartare, sweetbreads or chitlins.
A list like this is of course idiosyncratic, but let's say you have a choice of five things for your Omnivore's 100 list that aren't on the British one. Which five foods do people have to try before they die? I would put on my personal Omnivore's 100 the following. Not saying they're the best foods, just ones people who like to eat should have eaten:
1. Barbecued ribs (pork or beef).
2. California roll with wasabi and sliced ginger.
3. Green papaya salad.
4. Pasta with pesto sauce.
5. Stroopwaffels. (Dutch cinnamon and syrup waffle cookies)
[H/T: Nancy Nichols]
The VGT 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
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And the one thing that I will agree with Bill Clinton on wholeheartedly: a rib-and-fry plate from McClard's in Hot Springs.
I've never had Curried Goat, but does Barbecued Goat count ... or, to be more precise, BBQ Goat?
Also, while I have never had "Chitterlings," I have had Chittlins -- quite a few.
Someone please explain to me why Tiramisu isn't on this list?? How WOULD one post something in bold font, out of curiosity?
My general philosophy is I will try just about anything you put in front of me. Unless it is obviously insects, or sex organs. Sense of adventure is clearly a motivating factor in my personality, else I would not be in Iraq.
I still have a few items to go, it seems. I've listed those I don't THINK I've tried. Language barrier has occasionally made it impossible to know what I was eating. Language barrier also prevents me from knowing what half this stuff IS:
2. Nettle tea
4. Steak tartare
6. Black pudding Is this blood pudding? If so, I've had it.
12. Pho
14. Aloo gobi
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
25. Brawn, or head cheese
30. Bagna cauda
36. Cognac with a fat cigar Won't smoke anything
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O I hate Vodka
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
46. Fugu
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
59. Poutine
63. Kaolin
65. Durian
68. Haggis
73. Louche absinthe Soon as I get back Stateside...
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill LOL
76. Baijiu
81. Tom yum
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
90. Criollo chocolate
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
97. Lobster Thermidor What IS this?
AnotherBeliever: "My general philosophy is I will try just about anything you put in front of me. Unless it is obviously insects, or sex organs."
Replace "Unless" with "Especially when", and you have *my* "general philosophy", or 'Shorter DSL.' [assuming that's not redundant - DSL.], too.
Both items being in short supply in these precincts, though, my inner Spinal Tap lyricist must needs content himself with the reflexive plaint, "Or so I have read..."
I took a shortened version of the test. Was surprised by my rank.
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