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The Very Good Taste blog wants to test your omnivoreyness. They posted a list of 100 food items ranging from the very fine to the very gross and they want to know what you’ve eaten and what you’re not not willing to eat.
Here are the rules:
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) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
Here’s mine (red = things I’ve eaten, blue = things I haven’t. If it kind of looks bold, too, that means there’s a link to wikipedia about the food item):
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
76 out of 100. A few takeaway lessons:
- I am reminded that I’ve never had frog legs or any version of a lassi.
- Who the hell even makes Lobster thermidor anymore?
- In addition to kaolin, I was tempted to 86 roadkill and snake. Here are the reasons why I didn’t: if the roadkill is defined as something killed on the road and that something happened to be deer, I would certainly eat it if properly cleaned and cooked. Though I’m terribly afraid of snakes, I feel like maybe ingesting it will help me get over my fear. The reason I would cross snake off though is that any place that is serving snakes must have live snakes nearby and that is not any place I want to be.
I know I’ve been remiss in posting but this was too good to pass up:
As the concerned citizen he is, Ricky Tokio checked out Sarah Palin’s wikipedia page this morning upon learning of her selection as McCain’s VP. What he found was that Sarah Palin is the emodiment of Hulkamania running wild. Literally (click photo for a bigger version).
Thankfully, in all of Rickey Tokio’s interweb surfing wisdom, he had the presence of mind to make a screen grab because it was quickly deleted and now just shows her in a turqouise fleece and pearls. So boring.
You can thank cinetrix‘s status update on Facebook for this: send Barack Obama your baby for a kiss, a hug or hope. According to the FAQ:
You may choose from three interaction types: a kiss, a hug, or giving hope. For a kiss or a hug, Barack spends roughly two minutes with a baby. Giving hope usually takes about twice that long.
With a script deadline looming, it was a wonder that Mary Milan and I had the opportunity to be out and about last night to celebrate her successful defense of her dissertation.
Yes, that’s right, Mary Milan is a doctor now, or actually she’s an internship short of being a doctor but fuck, who’s counting? The school? Feh. The CA board of psychologists? Feh. As far as I’m concerned, it’s close enough. Recognize. Respeck. (Yes, I have been watching Ali G re-runs late at night on HBO).
Anyway, the reason for this quick guest post on my own blog is that while we were out, we found My Last Supper, the foodie coffee table book containing portraits of 50 great chefs and their answers to five simple questions:
What would be your last meal on earth?
What would be the setting for the meals?
What would you drink with your meal?
Who would be your dining companions?
Who would prepare the meals?
As you might imagine, they range from the predictable (Anthony Bourdain, who wrote the intro and also poses naked with a strategically placed femur, says he’d eat bone marrow with his buds Eric Ripert and Gordon Ramsay), to the whimsical (Daniel Boloud answers that he’d eat whatever was in season, whatever Alain Ducasse would cook for him, or simply a foie gras terrine, lobster, pheasant, partridge and a cheese course).
It got us thinking, what would be our last meals?
Mary Milan: Ice cream, cheese and nuts.
Me: Beef stew noodle soup, where “beef stew” means “offal,” specifically tendon, pancreas, tripe, intestines and other connective tissue that’s been stewed in a rich, peppery, dark, blood-and-marrow-thickened, star anise flavored broth, garnished with a steamed baby bok choy stem. Yum.
What about you? What would be your last meal?
