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[meganursula]

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea (good for pregnancy, along with red raspberry leaf)
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 (mango is so much better)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects covered in chocolate
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $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
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 (French Laundry)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (and rabbit, too!)
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




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.

Yeah, you're right, i didn't cross out anything.  Never say never, you know?  Although there are a few things i wouldn't be too enthusiastic about trying, and i'm sure many things i wouldn't want to eat on a regular basis.

I have eaten whale meat, by the way.  It was pretty good - at a pretty good restaurant in Bergen, Norway.  But i do not believe i'd want to wrest with that particular ethical dilemma to have it again.  (It is legally caught in Norway, where a limited number of the sustainable minke whale are caught each year.) 

I am sad how many of these things i do not know about.  I don't know what several of my 'uneaten' foods are.

Comments

[eub.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I'll have brought a criollo chocolate bar somewhere you've eaten it unknowingly.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Uh, so, what is it? Just fancy chocolate? Because i've had a lot of fancy and wonderful chocolate, though i don't remember the name criollo.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Criollo is one of the types of cacao varieties -- probably closest to the varieties a few hundred years ago. They're susceptible to disease, and hard to grow.

Most cacao is forastero, a little bit is forastero-criollo hybrids called trinitario, and a tiny bit is criollo (... which probably has a good bit of hybridization in it).

[mh75.livejournal.com]

ok, i've had that, i guess. I think it might have been wasted on me, since i didn't understand it.

i've also had pure kona peaberry coffee, which was not wasted on me.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Google thinks Kaolin is clay. But maybe there's something else by that name that's more edible :-)

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

Kaopectate. I don't think it should be counted here, because really only pregnant ladies experiencing pica would be looking for it.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Oh! That's actually the anti-nausea stuff my dad occasionally takes. I've had that.

I don't think it belongs on a list of neat foods to try, though :-P

[eub.livejournal.com]

I'd bet the cultural context the list meant for that was "earth eating" (http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/3_01/3_07_01/back_then.shtml), such as in the South.

Whether Kaopectate checks off "kaolin" technically depends on the manufacturing date of the Kaopectate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaopectate):

Attapulgite clay replaced the kaolinite in the 1980s, but since 2004, bismuth subsalicylate has been used as the active ingredient in U.S. marketed products.

[katybeth]

You had nettle soup; I'm sure that counts for something.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

I thought of that with the nettle tea.
i've also had nettle cheese.

[littlepurple.livejournal.com]

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O

You've never done a jello shot?

[mh75.livejournal.com]

not that i can recall. i'm not really as cool as you think i am.

[miss-elise.livejournal.com]

OMG, look, I'm on Livejournal for the first time in like, forever!!!

I bet you've had huevos rancheros. Pretty much just scrambled eggs with salsa all wrapped up in a tortilla. It seems like something that would be right up you alley. Or did you know that already?

I have to say that the only thing on the list that I would not eat is lobster thermador, which i am pretty sure is lobster in jello. Only its called aspic when it's not fruity flavored jello. It sounds like something totally 1950s that would be served with colorvision cake, which I am happy to say we've eaten a bazillion times. So that counts for something.

And I echo Sarah - you've never had a jello shot? Or a dirty martini? These I am the most surprised by.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Elise! hi.

i am weird about eggs. and tomato things. And solid things (cooked eggs) with liquid things (salsa juice). So, no. But i eat really runny poached eggs all the time. Go figure.

Oh, and i'm not a martini person. I may have had a dirty martini, but, not so that i recall.

[msde.livejournal.com]

I think I would have to cross out fugu. And a few others, they're just too expensive to justify.