Food meme from valkyriekaren

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Here's a list of food. Ones I've eaten are bolded, ones I wouldn't eat are struck through, and ones I've eaten and wouldn't again, both. The rest are foods you should make an effort to feed me :)


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. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (pls note - you have to use jelly, not jam. Jam makes for a weird texture)
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 (I love pistachio ice cream)
21. Heirloom tomatoes (not so fond of tomatoes in any form)
22. Fresh wild berries (straight off the bush. I find it hard to imagine that most people haven't... they don't have to be countryside berries, there are plenty of berries in towns, you just might want to wash them first)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (although I'd rather not)
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (I can't imagine wanting to do this.)
27. Dulce de leche in ice cream
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas (I'd probably try them if you had some, but I really hate peas)
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (I love those oyster crackers you get with it, but can't find a recipe for them)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float (I hate root beer. I think you have to be introduced to it as a child)
36. Cognac (not my favourite, but I'll drink it)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat (goat has a great strong flavour, perfect for curry)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal (I probably won't like it though, I'm a wuss)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (not overly keen, and I may well chicken out in the event of it being a possibility)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel (I don't really like it, but I wouldn't refuse it)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin (really want to try sea urchin, never found any)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (why does this go with the rest?)
56. Spätzle (although I'm not sure why these differe substantially from other noodles)
57. Dirty gin martini (I don't like olives, so this seems unlikely to be my cup of tea)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (is this really food? Anyone?)
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 (although I'm not sure I've eaten them at the same time)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (I';d have to see it killed, to be sure it *was* roadkill)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (I've eaten other pies of a similar type. I liked the 'Tasty Klair Pie' if we're being American)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong (I like sausages that taste of sausage, and tea that tastes of tea. sorry)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (I don't really get it)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (but this was delicious)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers (daisies are good in ham sandwiches, but must be fresh. Nasturtiums are lovely as a salad veg, both flower and leaves. Elderflowers make good fritters, and rose leaves and violets are lovely lightly coated in sugar. Also, geraniums make good jelly)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate (no idea, but probably)
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano (not properly)
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (I love lobster)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake (I might chicken out, though)

Comments

[gerald_duck]

The trick with Phaal (apparently; I'm not insane enough to try myself) is to find a good Tandoori restaurant that emphasises subtlety and complexity of flavour over strength and that doesn't have Phaal on the menu. If specially requested, they'll tend to make one that's very strong, for sure, but where the point of the exercise isn't to prove how macho one is.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Possibly the trick with Phaal, as with vindaloo, is to make it myself.

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

Wasabi peas don't taste like peas--they're dried to be seriously crunchy and coated with the wasabi coating. Pretty good.

What's Kaolin?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Maybe I would like wasabi peas, then, but I'm not going to go out of my way to try.

Kaolin appears to be a type of clay, but it's possible that me google-fu has deserted me.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

No, I was introduced to root beer as a child and it was disgusting then too. Gah, like drinking toothpaste!! *shudders*

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

I think you have to be introduced to it in a place that doesn't have toothpaste that tastes of root beer. To me, rootbeer is great--it's the weird tasting toothpastes of Europe that are strange to me. ;)

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

It was Singapore, IIRC. I can't remember what the toothpaste was like, but it wasn't Europe.

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...apparently some Singaporean toothpaste has anise flavoring too?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

*vomits*

If there's one flavour I've loathed all my life, it's aniseed.