Food

[pegkerr]

Gacked from irinaauthor and dichroic:

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) Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.

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 (I have a recipe that I make frequently, Bilbo's Underground Stew, which contains beets).
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho (I LOVE IT! An ultimate comfort food, esp. when I'm sick. I can thank minnehaha K. for introducing me to pho)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses - no idea what this is
17. Black truffle - I think so
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns - not sure
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (Or Cajun variants thereof.)
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda - don't know what it is
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl Sort of, separately. I've had clam chowder, and I've had other soups in sourdough bowls.
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - Cognac only.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O - Hmm. Sounds intriguing, although I've never tried it.
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - Yes! Crickets!
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 - don't know what it is
53. Abalone
54. Paneer - I've heard of it. I think I've eaten it.
55. McDonalds Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine - don't know what it is
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads - not tempted
63. Kaolin - don't know what it is
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - don't know what it is
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - not tempted
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - not tempted
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 - I think
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam - I grew up on Spam and rice dinners
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

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

14: aloo gobi. Yes, Indian. It's a potato (aloo) and cauliflower (gobi) curry, quite good.

38: jello shots. <http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/jello/>

59: poutine. French-fry abuse as practiced in Montreal. Sounds really disgusting. Several people have reported liking it.

65: durian. A fruit, famous for smelling like corpses but tasting, they say, wonderful. Mentioned in the Aubrey/Maturin books, too.

79: lapsang souchong. Yes, a tea. Tastes (or at least smells) like tarred rope. In a good way. I've never been able to make it come out nearly as well as it does for my mother; maybe it's the water.

durian

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

And you know what a corpse smells like how?

K.

Re: durian

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

"Famous for", not "which I think". I was carefully *avoiding* expressing a personal opinion on both halves of the claim.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Then I've had aloo gobi and lapsang souchong.

[bob54449.livejournal.com]

For my nose durian smells like boiled onion and garlic. Well, it is an oily, clingy smell that overstays its welcome, so I am not telling I like it that much or would keep durian fruit in my room gladly, even if it smells MUCH pleasanter than a piece of raw meat one might find in a turned off freezer.

And I must confess - I tasted the onion/garlic taint, too. And I did not like it especially.

(and thanks, now I wonder why corpses might smell of onion and garlic. The South Asian people use garlic so freely that even their dead bodies mostly smell of it? The corpses are washed with garlic water to keep away bloodsuckers, so the garlicky durian gets labeled as having corpse smell?)

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

(came here via haniaw's link)

Poutine is Quebec soul food. It's sinfully yummy, but probably one of the most artery-clogging things you can have. I can only justify eating it maybe once a year. :)

The best kind has thick-cut French fries with fresh curd cheese and a thick brown beef gravy poured over it so the cheese melts and gets very stringy. Even better if the gravy is good and peppery!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Epoisses is a French cow's milk cheese, like Pont l'Eveque.

K.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if that bagna cauda is something with th fat that one finda around kidneys? I should look it up.

K.

bagna caude

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Ittsa dip: olive oil, butter, garlic & anchovies. I've had it at Hair-of-the-Dog parties, but not for years. Very down home. Served hot with vegies to dunk in.

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of caul fat, I think. The stuff they use in pates.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

If your chicken mole was the dark, rich, spicy kind, you've had mole poblano.

Lapsang souchong is a smoky tea, as dd_b said--I can't quite decide if I like it, but it's definitely distinctive. Kaolin is the clay or mineral or whatever that they used to put in Kaopectate, which is pretty much the only way anyone would have ingested it, I think. Umeboshi is a pickled plum/apricot eaten in Japan--if you get lunch combo there may be a wrinkly reddish round thing atop the rice. That's the umeboshi. It's there to be nibbled in little bites to give your mouth a break from other richly flavored food or the sweetish white rice. For heaven's sake don't pop the whole thing in your mouth like I did, unless you REALLY like things that are super sour and salty.

I had to look up some of the others when I did this, and now I want to try epoisses, criollo chocolate, bagna cauda, and rose harissa (I've had regular harissa, but not rose). Fun!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If your chicken mole was the dark, rich, spicy kind, you've had mole poblano. Yes, that's what it was. I think there was a little chocolate in the sauce, too.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

That's the thing. :) I really want to like it, but something in it doesn't sit well with me. I can only eat a bite or two. My husband loves it, though.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I loved loved LOOOOOOOOVED haggis. Stacey and I had a plate of it in front of us and kept going "You first, no, you first...noooo, you first." Then we took a bite together...then fought over the rest of it. I think we ended up eating it 4 or 5 times in the four week period we were in Edinburgh.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never been confronted with it before. I probably would try it, since I am pretty much willing to try anything once. I don't think it's anything I would go out and seek.

[sternel.livejournal.com]

Nobody believes me when I say it's good! And to be honest, I'd rather eat haggis than a McDonald's hamburger. At least I know what's in the haggis. =/

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

I believe you! It gets a bad rap cause it's encased in sheep offal, but how is that really any different from sausage?

Sooo good. *Definitely* much more worth eating than anything on a McDonald's menu.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Where did you get a chance to eat crickets and curried goat?

Wow, I would have eaten remarkably few items on here. I know I'm not exactly an adventurous eater, in terms of ethnic cuisine, but this makes me feel like a picky eater. Or just sheltered. :P

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I ate crickets thanks to jonsinger. He had a panel at Minicon once because he was the fan guest of honor, and he was talking about adventurous eating (he's famous for it) and as an example he had some crickets fried in, I think, soy sauce that were passed around, and I was brave enough to try one. I tasted the soy sauce, obviously; the other thing I remember was the crunch. They really weren't too bad--if you could keep yourself from thinking what you were eating.

I had the curried goat at one of the little ethnic eateries at the Midtown Global Market here in Minneapolis. That's a great place to go to try all sorts of non-standard-American fare.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I've had a few of those in passing, like Tom Yum or horse. The State Fair had crocodile on a stick, which I tried. I can't believe you've never had carp or wasabi peas.

"Louch" is what happens to absinthe. "Louche Absinthe" is meaningless.

At least here in America, a "beer" above 8% alcohol is not allowed to be called "beer", though I haven't checked the statutes specifically. I'm pretty sure I've had brewed potables that strong, but it was either a) a Canadian or Belgian brand or b) very ripe Coors.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

To me, durian smells a little like wet clothing and tastes like something that was once tasty but has now gone bad. I've never had the fruit fresh, only in little custard tarts, and that was enough for me. I remember the smell/taste sort of got caught in my sinuses and I carried it around with me for days.

Fried plantains are delish - you can have them fried up plain, and they're good to eat with refried beans and sour cream (a Salvadoran place near where I used to live did this dish and it tasted like a miracle) or you can get them cooked so they're sort of caramelly and sticky-sweet.

Steamed pork buns are one of my favorite things on this earth. Now I'm craving them!

[ckd]

52. Umeboshi: pickled Japanese "plums" (not the same as the "normal" American plums, and apparently more closely related to apricots). Very tart. I like them in those seaweed-wrapped rice balls (onigiri), since that cuts the tartness a bit.

63. Kaolin: clay. Nobody seems to know why this is on the list.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

63. Kaolin: clay. Nobody seems to know why this is on the list.

I wonder whether it might be on the list because of pica, a medical condition when pregnant women (or sometimes children) start craving non-nutritive substances, such as clay.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

When I googled, I saw a blurb that said something to the effect that some people who eat dirt prefer kaolin, but I didn't pursue further detail.

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

Hee! Maybe it's on there to check people who mark more than they've actually eaten/the exotic-sounding stuff to seem impressive?

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

What 3-star restaurant was it, and did it deserve the rating?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oops, I have to take the bolding off of that one. That was a mistake.