Friday, August 15, 2008

Bizarre Foods that I Have Eaten Meme

So here's this list of 100 so called "bizarre" foods... The premise is that you bold the ones that you've eaten and strikethrough the ones you would never try under any circumstances. I'm going to italicize the ones I'd try, also. :) Now, being a biologist and possibly HAVING to eat something like this, my choices might be a bit different than some of yours, but maybe you'll be interested to see them!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (does Alligator count? I LOVE Alligator!)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich (I don't really like peanut butter, but I have had it)
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (aren't those the BEST hotdogs???)
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 (i might add that i HATE tomatoes...)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (OWWIE!!!!)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (Snot in a shell)
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 (i've had several different cognacs, but no cigars, does this still count?)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (don't put too much vodka in your jello shots -- that's the one thing I stil remember from AP Latin in high school!)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (BLECH BLECH BLECH! even chocolate covered ants are blechy!)
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 (Definitely at Worldcon next year)
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads (I don't eat any organ meats...)
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian ( I would TRY it, if i had to... but I wouldn't be the first to volunteer)
66. Frogs' legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (All four, actually)
68. Haggis (see above re: organ meats)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (uhm, GROSS!)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (well.... snails are still technically mollusks, and I do like most bivalves...)
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 (oh HELL no... not in any sense of the word...that's sacrilege!)
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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