Saturday, January 14, 2012

Weird food

I am no Andrew Zimmern, but I have eaten many strange foods in my life. That's why I was so excited when I saw this Ed Kohler post about weird foods. He wants to eat everything on the list and seems to be making a lot of progress. Here's the list with a check mark next to the 63 items I've already tried:


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
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 

I think between Ed and I we've eaten just about everything on the list....