Here’s an interesting little list I found at How to Eat a Cupcake. It originated at Very Good Taste, who gives the following instructions:
Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food – but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.
Instructions
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 at http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/ linking to your results.
I’ve only eaten 22 things from the list. I’d never eat 23 of them, and I had to look up 15. Of the 23 I wouldn’t try, eight are alcoholic beverages. And I don’t drink. So those aren’t so much a matter of “Eewwwww, no way!” as “No thank you. I’m the designated driver.”
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare. I can’t imagine eating raw meat on purpose.
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding. I didn’t confirm this, but I suspect there are terrible things involved.
7. Cheese fondue. Cheese is one of my very favorite things.
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari. Rockford loves calamari. It’s not my cup of tea.
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich. Pretty much daily.
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart.
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes. I don’t drink.
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. Not in a million years.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper. Ouch.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters. The thought of oysters makes me a little ill.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl. I’ve eaten lots of clam chowder, but never in a sourdough bowl.
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float. One of my favorite things in all the world.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar. Gross.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O.
39. Gumbo. Yum-bo!
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat. Maybe if I were on the amazing race.
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 . Too many to count.
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. This looks hideous. I’ll bet it would be great it I could get past the visual, though.
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin. I’m not sure I understand why this one’s on here.
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. My mother-in-law makes the world’s best 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