Rose harissa and 99 other things to try...

[mrph]

Food meme, from graylion  - let's face it, there's no way I'd miss out on this one...

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme: bold those you have tried, strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.

2a) Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
2b) Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros*
4. Steak tartare* (carpaccio of beef, yes, and  lamb kachela -  but not steak tartare yet...)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (I'd rather not eat bad black pudding again, but that's different...)
   
7. Cheese Fondue
8. Carp*
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (mmm, must go back to Habibi...:)
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  (I haven't eaten this since I was a teenager. I'll happily eat goose liver, if I'm eating the goose -but I toured a foie gras farm once, and...)
    
24. Rice and beans
    
25. Brawn, or head cheese (and I might try to cook it too, one day)
    
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulche de leche*
28. Oysters
    
29. Baklava
    
30. Bagna cauda*
    
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl*
    
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (I don't think I ever really understood sauerkraut until I had good sauerkraut in Leipzig...)
    
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (No cigars for me. Have had both before, but never together)
37. Clotted cream tea
    
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (...one of the things I can never cook as well as I ought to...)
41. Curried goat* (goat, yes, but not curried - most recently, as kid faggots)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal* (but I'd like to try the original Indian version, not the "test of dutch courage" one)
44. Goat’s milk (although I'm still mildly intolerant of it, I think - it made me quite ill when I was a sprog...)
    
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
    
46. Fugu*
47. Chicken tikka masala
    
48. Eel (and I've cooked conger eel myself, if that counts)
    
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin*  (Next time it appears on the menu at St Johns...)
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  (at least a dozen or so different ones, I think)
59. Poutine (I blame Convergence and Montreal... :)
    
60. Carob chips*
61. S’mores (although I might be wrong about this one...)
    
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian*
66. Frogs’ legs
    
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
    
68. Haggis (I'm going to miss the breakfast haggis at Infest this year. But there's a haggis in the fridge, so...)
    
69. Fried plantain*
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (pressed in sandwiches, which was disappointing. Hot with radishes is very nice, though. Haven't been brave enough to cook them myself, though)
    
71. Gazpacho (...and I need to do some home-made gazpacho at some point...)
    
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 (not sure about this one, but I think I probably have - I've had a fair bit of Thai food)
    
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky   (although, y'know, I'm not sure I see the point...)
    
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant*
85. Kobe beef*
86. Hare*
87. Goulash
    
88. Flowers
    
89. Horse (I think. It was France, and a very long time ago...)
    
90. Criollo chocolate
    
91. Spam
    
92. Soft shell crab*
93. Rose harissa*
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano* (I'd like to try cooking this, too - but I want to eat a good example first, so I know what I'm aiming for!)
    
96. Bagel and lox
    
97. Lobster Thermidor*
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake*

 

I'm surprised at some of the things that aren't on the list. What, no brains? No pig's trotters? No squirrels,  spleens, whelks, chicken paws, pickled samphire or gull's eggs? :-)

Comments

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

hello my dear, sorry i ve not been in contact for many a moon but been ill. anyhew just discovered that someone on my flist is moving to cov and suggested that she contact/friend you - she being bionicgeekgirl

she's a nice ordinary goth/bi/geek/bicon type person

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Interesting meme, but, as you say, lots of things missing - rotten shark for example, you have to try some when you are in Reykajavic. It's gross. I also had the sheep's head cheese there, also gross.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Sheep's head cheese? Mutton meets brawn...

Hmm. Mutton and lamb are good, but that strikes me as something that really must work better with pig. And even then, there's a lot of bad brawn out there - all jelly, no flavour...

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm not sure what brawn is... but when I had the sheep's head cheese, it was in Reykjavic and part of a smorgasboard - there was a ram's skull on the table and the guy took great delight in explaining to me that the cheese is made from shit they scrape from the skull. I sure hope he was joshing me, cos I ate that gross shit!!

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Brawn is the meat from a pig's head, usually cooked slowly (brined and boiled with stock vegetables) and then shredded and cooled in some sort of jelly. The bits that squick people (brains, tongue etc) frequently get nicked for other uses, so aren't normally in the brawn.

When it's good, it's... well, it's just small pieces of really tasty well-cooked pork in the sort of jelly that makes a good pork pie work so well. Preferably served cold with salad, dill, mustard and something pickled (onions, cucumbers, whatever). There's a place in Leipzig that did this amazingly well when I was there for the goth fest one year...

When it's not so good, it's just odd bits of tasteless meat in jelly. I'm just struggling to imagine how mutton would cope with that treatment...

[juudes.livejournal.com]

You know, I quite liked PB&J sandwiches: I bought a jar of Goober Grape Peanut Butter and Jelly (yes, mixed: like stripey toothpaste) in the Alma once, and it was surprisingly tasty.

Mind you, maybe PB&J stands for something else. May I suggest you offer a small prize for whoever comes up with the most inedible suggestions for a PB&J sandwich?!

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Goober Grape sounds like a euphemism for piles.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

PB&J sandwich?!

Pigs Blood & Jizz ???

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Tricky. But achievable.

Black pudding and lamb's fry.

Whether anyone would eat it, though...

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

I was actualy meaning human....and yes, i have heard of it being served in a sandwich and someone eating it !!!

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the Internet. Or was this just goths?

[kest]

same offer I made to graylion - come to visit and we can get you chowder in a sourdough bowl, with a hostess fruit pie for dessert.

also, were you around the whitby bonfire I was feeding everyone s'mores? if so, then you've definitely had one.

Pie!

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I was at that bonfire - and I thought I remembered eating s'mores, but wasn't entirely certain...

As for the chowder and pie - if schedules are convenient, I'll take you up on that offer, once I get organised enough to visit North America again.