I do this meme mostly because I want to give a shout out to Andrew Wheeler’s excellent foodie blog, Very Good Taste. Wheeler and his cowriters are funny and intelligent and frequently make me hungry, so if you like food – and who doesn’t like food, other than anorexics – give it a looksee.
Anyhow: the VGT Omnivore’s Challenge.
I have eaten the following (in bold):
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 (I had to Google them to see what they were)
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 (I take issue with the inclusion of this one, Wheeler – I don’t smoke, how the hell am I supposed to enjoy a fat death-stick?)
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 (stunningly overrated)
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’m assuming we’re talking the animal innards kind and not the Portuguese sweet buns which frequently have the same name, so no)
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (all of them, actually)
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 (just last week, actually)
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
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No eel, really? Not even in the sushi context? (Anago/unagi)
I don’t know why that surprises me so much.
It’s actually entirely possible to not or nearly never smoke and still enjoy a nice cigar. They are smoked in a different way than cigarettes, and use much better smelling and tasting tobacco. You dip the end you puff from in the cognac (brandy works too) and get the taste of the smoke and the booze at once. It’s a taste of old-fashioned luxury that should be enjoyed at least once.
Oh, I did this. I got a friggin 69/100.
I eat everything.
Damn, now I’m hungry. Mmm, venison.
Roadkill?!
(I mean, I keep kosher, so I wouldn’t eat a lot of the stuff on there, but – seriously???)
Ooh, I’ve had pomegranate wine. Highly recommended. (Although I’ve heard that it isn’t really “wine” if it isn’t made from grapes.) Anyone got favorites/recommendations on the list? I’d have to go with cheese fondue. Mmmm.
I’m shocked that somebody as strongly associated with comics as MGK has never had a Hostess Fruit Pie. They’re delicious, to boot.
I score a 13%. It would be 14, but it doesn’t say if it includes things included in other things. For example, I like Rueben sandwitches, but I don’t eat sauerkraut by itself. Also, I can’t remember if I’ve had huevos rancheros.
And MGK I can’t agree with you more about the Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I do not see the big fucking deal people make over them. It’s just an ass load of glaze on the fucking things! I can eat one, any more and it makes me sick.
Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam! Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam! (I don’t like it that much, but couldn’t resist the Python reference.)
A Krispy Kreme doughnut must be eaten absolutely fresh, hot light on. Then, they taste like sugar on a warm breeze. Otherwise, they taste like a plain doughnut.
I must agree with Chris on that, though the boxes have microwaving instructions which can simulate the effect. Now to tabulate my answers (would’ve had snake if the restaurant wasn’t out).
Looks like at least 20% (just churros and funnel-cake for 67).
Hn. 48/100, a lot of which comes from just being a Louisiana native.
Worth commenting on:
22 – God, I miss berry-picking. If the damn things weren’t essentially kudzu with thorns, I’d have blackberry vines on my back fence now.
25 – Fond memories of bad food.
30 – I’m a Babylon 5 fangirl. Had to try it at least once.
39 – Trufax, once you cross the LA state line, it ceases to be gumbo and is merely soup.
42 – Wasn’t on purpose.
51 – Arizona transplant; I’m stunned by how many dishes that thing is made into and how many of them are damn tasty.
60 – Not recommended when the palate expects chocolate
66 – They’re best when you catch them yourself.
67 – All of the above, but a hot beignet and cafe au lait rule above all.
70 – Both.
83 – Nice, but largely overrated
88 – Honeysuckle. It’s good.
97 – Surprisingly meh.
100. See #66.
Even hot, Krispy Kremes are still pretty overrated. The chain came up to Minnesota and died a slow death because frankly, SuperAmerica’s SuperMom doughnuts tasted better, were bigger, and cost less.
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