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The Omnivore’s 100

October 8, 2008 By Jay Brooks

Here’s a fun little food exercise. Andrew at Very Good Taste, an English food blog, posted a list of one hundred things every omnivore should eat or drink, asking bloggers across the world to post the list, annotating it with the items they’ve had and crossing out the ones they’d never, ever try. There’s an even an FAQ about the list, which answers some basic questions about how it came about. So without further ado, here’s the list:

The Very Good Taste Ominvore’s 100

  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  63. Kaolin
  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
  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

I did a lot better than I expected I would, with 63 already tried, not counting any that I’m not entirely sure what the are. Case in point, I originally left off epoisses. My friend and colleague, Stephen Beaumont, however, reminded me that he actually brought us some of that cheese when my wife Sarah was pregnant with Alice. You can read his own account of the list on his On the House blog.

How many have you tried?

 

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Comments

  1. The Beer Nut says

    October 9, 2008 at 2:10 am

    48. Must try harder.

  2. Stephen Beaumont says

    October 9, 2008 at 6:51 am

    As Harmony stated in her comment at VGT, I never realized how many strange things I’ve eaten until I did this exercise. Got 87 in total, with two qualifications. http://onthehouse.typepad.com/on_the_house/2008/10/a-fun-food-exer.html

  3. Phil says

    October 9, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    100/100 – epicurean parents, and travel does that.

    Spam, was school dinners. I am suprised, no Boar. And, Andouiettes are now a great experience, whilst fried catfish in Alabama was a great experience. Real Jamaican coffee, why not Kopi Luak? and no Balut?

  4. Zythophile says

    October 9, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    You’ve never had a clotted cream tea? Fly back over here immediately, and I’ll whip you down to Cornwall, where they put clotted cream on their ice-cream (your arteries start to clog up just looking at it …)

    I’ve had 60 on that list, and a few other odd things besides – brains (by mistake, in a restaurant in Florence; emu; human milk (don’t ask …)

  5. Ms. Perky says

    October 9, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    67. Thanks for giving me something to shoot for!

  6. maltymavin says

    October 9, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    59 – not bad for being a vegetarian for 22 years…in the “by mistake” category I’d like to add pigeon, and no it wasn’t on the streets of San Francisco.

  7. Lew Bryson says

    October 10, 2008 at 9:05 am

    Damn…only 58. I’m chagrined to see at least 20 on my “yet to taste” list that have been a matter of lack of opportunity, things I’ve wanted to try for a while. Must get out more.

  8. Tom from Raleigh says

    October 10, 2008 at 10:38 am

    66 for me. I’m an adventurous eater, but I don’t think I’m ever going to eat roadkill. Who eats road kill?

  9. J says

    October 10, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    My roadkill adventure happened when I was a kid. My family visited a cousin of my stepfather’s for dinner. Halfway into our meal, our host announced that we were eating Squirrel Pot Pie, and that the main ingredient had been indeed found on the side of the road. My mother whisked us out of there, I never saw that particular relative again. But every experience has an upside, I guess, and now I can tick off roadkill as something I’ve eaten.

  10. Cornelia says

    October 11, 2008 at 7:57 am

    I assumed alligator would be equivalent to crocodile. And, would prickly pear ale (from defunct Austin brewpub Bitter End) count for prickly pear? Sadly only 38 (39 if the prickly pear ale counts.) Not really surprising as I’ve been a notoriously picky eater most of my life (just ask my family.) I suspect I’ve had some of the others at various events without knowing what they were.

  11. Keith Gibbons says

    October 12, 2008 at 12:37 am

    If I’d know have known when you were here, I could have easily supplied you with #79 Lapsang souchong (a smokey chinese tea) and #37 Clotted cream tea (don’t let the “clotting” put you off.) Also, #54 Paneer (Indian cheese, a bit like very firm tofu) and #14 Aloo Gobi (Potato and Cauliflower) would have been easy to come by, though I seem to recall you don’t like Indian food.

    I did better than I expected as well with 57.

  12. J says

    October 12, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Unfortunately, I didn’t know I “needed” to try those to eat those items when I was over your way last week. If I had, it would have been feast day. It’s true I don’t usually like Indian food, but i the interest of science (or whatever you’d call it) I would have given it a try. Thanks, Keith, for the offer.

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