Aug. 19: I’m a bad omnivore, I guess

This list was originally created by Andrew at Very Good Taste. He believes every self-respecting omnivore should have tried these 100 foods at least once in their life. I stole it from Momma Blogs a Lot but modified the instructions a bit for the HTML-impaired.

• Copy this list into your blog (including these instructions) or a comment below
  
• **Asterisk all the items you’ve eaten, and include comments if you’d like.
  
• --Put hyphens at the beginning of any items that you would never consider eating.

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1. **Venison
   
2. Nettle tea
   
3. **Huevos rancheros
   
4. --Steak tartare (thanks, but I prefer meat that does not moo or neigh as I eat it)
   
5. --Crocodile
   
6. --Black pudding
   
7. **Cheese fondue
   
8. Carp
   
9. Borscht
   
10. Baba ghanoush
    
11. --Calamari
    
12. Phở
    
13. **PB&J sandwich
    
14. Aloo gobi
    
15. **Hot dog from a street cart
    
16. Époisses de Bourgogne
    
17. Black truffle
    
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
    
19. **Steamed pork buns
    
20. **Pistachio ice cream
    
21. Heirloom tomatoes (I hate tomatoes, don’t care how special they are)
    
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 càuda
    
31. Wasabi peas
    
32. **Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
    
33. Salted lassi (Salted Lassie? That’s horrible!)
    
34. **Sauerkraut (mmmmm... reuben sandwich...)
    
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 (‘cept that one time on a bike ride)
    
43. Phaal
    
44. **Goat’s milk
    
45. Malt whiskey from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
    
46. --Fugu (though the street cart hot dog probably has more toxicity risk)
    
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. **Spätzle
    
57. Dirty gin martini
    
58. Beer above 8% ABV
    
59. **Poutine (I wrote about this when we tried it in Victoria in March; totally edible but unimpressive, to say the least)
    
60. **Carob chips (bleah, this gets a big mark for “things I would never try again”)
    
61. **S’mores
    
62. --Sweetbreads
    
63. Kaoliang
    
64. Currywurst
    
65. Durian (My in-laws love durian. They had some wrapped in a bag on their back porch one time and I was sitting out there. I kept thinking, “Gah! What smells like death?” and was just about to ask them if they’d seen the cat lately when I saw the durian. I don’t care how good it may taste. I won’t eat something that smells that bad.)
    
66. --Frogs’ legs
    
67. **Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (Can you think of any other reason to go to a county fair?)
    
68. --Haggis
    
69. Fried plantain
    
70. --Chitterlings or andouillette
    
71. Gazpacho
    
72. **Caviar and blini (My reaction to caviar was exactly like Tom Hanks’ in Big)
    
73. Louche absinthe
    
74. Gjetost or brunost
    
75. --Roadkill (I’m not aware of ever eating it, anyway)
    
76. Baijiu
    
77. **Hostess Fruit Pie (loves me the lemon ones, oh yeah!)
    
78. --Snail
    
79. Lapsang souchong
    
80. Bellini
    
81. Tom yum
    
82. **Eggs Benedict
    
83. **Pocky
    
84. Tasting menu at a 3-Michelin-star restaurant
    
85. Kobe beef
    
86. --Hare
    
87. **Goulash
    
88. **Flowers
    
89. --Horse
    
90. Criollo chocolate
    
91. **Spam (not since I was a kid and didn’t know any better, if that counts for anything)
    
92. Soft-shell crab
    
93. Rose harissa
    
94. Catfish
    
95. **Mole poblano
    
96. Bagel and lox (bagel, yes; lox, no)
    
97. Lobster Thermidor
    
98. **Polenta
    
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
    
100. --Snake

I’m probably one of the least food-adventurous people I know. I got 34/100.