memes for once

Everyones doing these new food and manga face memes over on LJ, so I figured I’d participate for once, since they’re actually kinda neat.

So to start off, here’s my cute little manga avatar:

Here’s the link to where you can get your own

And here’s that food meme:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (I don’t really get how you could have NOT eaten this - it’s sooooo yummy!)
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (Seriously guys. One of the best meats I’ve ever had!)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (I may have had this, but I can’t remember for sure - this is what you get when you have gourmets for grandparents - a faulty memory of things you may or may not have tried when you were four)
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush (there should be a separate way to indicate things I make really good at home - this is one)
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 (Gah. I’m missing out on all the good stuff. Somebody rectify this!)
24. Rice and beans (One of my favourites, actually - all though I prefer to call it rice and peas)
25. Brawn, or head cheese (This grosses me out. I will not eat it. It’s almost more the gelatinous consistency than the actually head-meatiness though. And the fact that I once saw a whole pigs head encased in one once. *shudder*)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (not that bad if you stay away from the seeds)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (This is a recent one, thanks Vivian!)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (I’ve had lassi - just not salted)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I love cognac - but I have never, nor will I ever, smoke)
37. Clotted cream tea (I fell in love with clotted cream in England)
38. Vodka jelly (Jello shots. We were all teenagers once.)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat (One of my favourite childhood memories is delicious Jamaican curried goat at a friends house)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (Too much risk involved. Read too many horror stories. No thank you.)
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 (it is the main ingredient in Kaopectate guys. We’ve all probably had it).
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs (I feel like I have had this, and that it tasted like chicken - I can’t be sure though)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette (I’ve had wild boar sausage, in natural casing - that’s intestines - which is very similar, so I’m going to count this one).
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (I’m kinda sad about this one. I’ve had roe, of course, in sushi and tarmosolata but not caviar, and no blini - anybody know a good Russian place in Toronto?)
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (It’s not so much the concept, as the possibility for nasty parasites. No thank you.)
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. (I wish! - although I have been to a 5 diamond AAA restaurant - which is actually almost the same thing)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa (I want to change my status on this one ASAP! - anyone know where to get it?)
94. Catfish (not that great. Kinda fishy)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (I’ve had Lobster, and I’ve had Thermidor, just not both at the same time)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake (I would actually love to try this!)

I got 67 or 70/100 - depending on how many points you give me for things that I have only half tried. Yeah, that’s right. I rock.

Other than the four I crossed out, I’m planning on trying all of these, at least before I die. Probably (hopefully) way before then.

UPDATE! Liam reminded me that we had Lapsang Souchong at a Tibetan restaurant a couple years ago. I am up to 71. Liam says we probably also had sea urchin in sushi, which is possible. So it’s a tentative 72.