Rose harissa and 99 other things to try...

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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? :-)

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