Food Meme

Saw this on CW's blog.

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.

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. well kind of... I had Truffle infused oil.  I would love to have the real thing. 
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (fejoa, elder berry)
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 (don't like them.  Think "Out vile jelly" when I see them)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (but mango lassi is my favourite)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea (By Jove yes old thing).
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo (I've had my version of this.  It's probably not quite like the original)
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects I've seen what's inside insects and it's not much.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu  Nah...
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut.
50. Sea urchin We once did a lab on them up at Leigh and my lecturer then salvaged the gonads to make sushi to serve to us. I just couldn't do it. The smell alone was enough for me! I'm just not a strong sea food eater.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal. Not that keen on Maccers on principle.
56. Spaetzle Yum yum
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 (tastes like stuffing)
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 Kind of disgusting
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 (wonder if there is a free trade option for it)
100. Snake.

I'd like to think I'm reasonably adventurous when it comes to eating, but it really depends on the environment as well as the food.  For example, I think if I ever got to India I'd be vegetarian for the duration.  If I went to China I'd be reluctant to try snake there because of the way they dispatch it, (not to mention other animals that get eaten there!) 

Other things I could eat if I had to be polite, but the texture/source puts me off - like kidneys for example.  I can't divorce my mind from the fact that the odd texture is an organ that filters out stuff... and here I am eating it!  Ick.  I think that is why I'm not keen on shellfish and the likes either - at least by themselves.  I can't ignore the fact they are filter feeders and plus I'm eating their gonads.  (But they are okay in chowder... sort of).

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