Food meme

[jlh]

Haven't felt well the last couple of days. Laid low, watched a lot of Olympics.

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) Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.

The VGT Omnivore's Hundred:

1. Venison And caribou, both shot by my brother, who is awesome.
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros And I'll make them, too. SO GOOD.
4. Steak tartare In the world of raw beef I'd much rather have carpaccio
5. Crocodile Mine was sort of tough, just an app, but I was like, eh.
6. Black pudding And I didn't like it much.
7. Cheese fondue SO GOOD.
8. Carp
9. Borscht SO GOOD.
10. Baba ghanoush A friend from grad school called this "Barbara Ganooj's lesbian dip"
11. Calamari And I don't care for it much.
12. Pho SO GOOD.
13. PB&J sandwich I prefer raspberry, but I quite like grape too.
14. Aloo gobi There is a lot of Indian food on this list.
15. Hot dog from a street cart Good with the tomato onion sauce stuff.
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle But I don't like them much.
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns SO GOOD.
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes SO GOOD.
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras I really don't like it—it makes me gag because it's so rich.
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese Our neighbor made it. It isn't as weird as it sounds, but I don't care for it.
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
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects In chocolate, not sure if that counts. Crunchy, but gross to think about.
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 I am not a fan of organ meats, however.
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake All fried dough is good.
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain SO GOOD.
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette It's a rite of passage. I still don't like organ meats. If you can call them that.
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill Why, when I know hunters?
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie Lived on these in high school.
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong But I don't like smoky much. It used to be in the variety box of teas and I'd have to find someone to take them.
80. Bellini SO GOOD.
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict SO GOOD.
83. Pocky I just had my first savory pocky, and it was really good, sort of like those chicken-in-a-biscuit crackers.
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare I really like it a lot.
87. Goulash
88. Flowers You know, in salads, they can be quite nice.
89. Horse Why?
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam So Hawaiian
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 I don't care for coffee, or I could easily have had it by now.
100. Snake See crocodile, only it was a little tougher or stringier or something like that.

Mostly, I'm really lucky to live in New York.

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I have never gotten near a lot of these.

I hope you feel better!

[goraina.livejournal.com]

I think you won this meme! :O

[salemdipity.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon *hugs*

I went through this list and there are only three things on it I would consider eating. Three!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Which are the three? I'm guessing you don't eat any seafood or any Asian food? And seriously, fried plantains are SO GOOD.

And there's a surprising amount of stuff on here I've just eaten because there are a lot of ethnic restaurants in NY.

[salemdipity.livejournal.com]

I've eaten a hot dog from a cart before (and would again), and I'd be willing to try cheese fondue and eggs benedict. I'm not a very adventurous eater, I'm afraid. I'm allergic to seafood and I don't eat a lot of Asian food - I eat some Chinese, but that's it.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to pitch, because a lot of what's on this list isn't adventurous and I bet you'd like some of it!

Huevos Rancheros are just mexican eggs—fried eggs over beans with cheese and salsa, so if you like nachos, it's like, egg nachos.

Borcht is Russian beet root soup, so if you like beet root you'll like that. Sometimes it's chunky, sometimes it's pureed and sour cream is added so it's bright pink. Someone told me y'all put beet root on your burgers, so there you go.

Baba Ganooj is eggplant dip, so that depends on how you feel about eggplant.

Pho is beef noodle soup. It's Vietnamese but it isn't spicy at all, just beefy and noodly. Very comfort food.

I'm going to let you have the PB&J because peanut butter is so american, but you know, substitute your childhood sandwich of choice here, i think.

Steamed pork buns are that bbq pork you get at a chinese restaurant, stuffed into some dough and steamed.

Is pistachio ice cream unusual? My mother bought a lot of it.

omg heirloom tomatoes are really incredible more flavorful tomatoes that haven't been bred to be shipped and are therefore sort of plastic and flavorless. They're juicy and often different colors like orange and purple, but still taste like really great tomatoes.

Fresh wild berries, Liss! Berries are my favorite food, period.

Rice and beans are a Latin staple, but it's pretty much just rice and beans. That's, um, it. Rice, and some black or red beans.

Dulce de leche is caramel, essentially. YUM.

Baklava is filo dough layered with honey and nuts.

I like my floats with other sodas, especially orange soda, rather than root beer.

Doughnuts, Liss. Doughnuts. Glazed with sugar. Fried dough glazed with sugar that melts in your mouth.

Spaetzle is just egg noodles, that are homemade and usually put into soups.

S'mores: chocolate. marshmallow. graham crackers. melted goodness.

Didn't you have a beignet in New Orleans? At that place we had the H/Hr meet up? once again: fried dough.

Plantains are from south america and are sort of like bananas, but not as sweet, more starchy. Fried green plantains (tostones) are like chips. Fried yellow plantains (maduros) are like fried bananas, sort of caramel-y.

Gazpacho is cold tomato soup from spain, and I eat a LOT in the summer. you just put tomatoes and cucumbers and a little onion and some bell pepper (and some put celery but I don't like celery) and a little spice if you want it in a blender and blend it up, and add a little vinegar and oil. Mmmm.

Hostess fruit pies are just crappy mini-mart junk food pies, they come in apple and cherry and blueberry and lemon and they're next to the Hohos and ring dings and devil dogs and all that crap.

A bellini is sparkling wine like prosecco and some peach nectar or puree.

You would totally eat Criollo chocolate! It's like, the super duper bestest ever chocolate or something.

Flowers are nice in salads. Usually posies.

I am totally getting you chocolate pocky when you're here. They're a sort of cooky stick, covered in chocolate mousse.

Polenta is just italian cornmeal mush, cooked until it's thickened, and it gets hard enough to cut when it cools.

Spam is ham. In a can. Slightly spiced.

Mole poblano is a very mild chile in a savory chocolate sauce.


See? Most of that isn't spicy, or Asian, or seafood—and a lot of it you can get pretty much anywhere in the US, not just here in NYC.

Also, you're in London and you haven't had cream tea?

[salemdipity.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for explaining a lot of this - I skipped everything that I didn't recognise, but now you've taken the time to explain what some of them are, I would try them :D

I don't eat eggplant or PJ, but I do like cheese and vegemite sandwiches :D I haven't seen a lot of pistachio icecream, and I don't eat raw tomatoes (I can eat 'em cooked if they're in a dish).

I hate Krispy Kreme donuts, I really do. They're the most horrible donuts I've ever had, apart from Tim Horton's. And you're right, I did have beignets - I completely missed them, sorry! I don't drink any alcohol, so would pass on Bellini.

I haven't had cream tea - I don't drink tea, period. Or coffee. But I will try some of this when we're together! Whee :D

[kerosinkanister.livejournal.com]

1. Venison And caribou, both shot by my brother, who is awesome.

The best jerky I ever had was caribou. Amazing stuff. It was homemade, given by some Canadians, and I suspect I'll never have as good again. *sigh*