This comes from a blog called Very Good Taste, and it looked like fun, so I'm posting it here (with the author's permission and encouragement).
Quoted from Very Good Taste:
Here’s a chance for a little interactivity for all the bloggers out there. Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.
Here’s what I want you to do:
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.
(Note from Patti: I'm going to use CAPS for foods I've tried and exes after foods I wouldn't try, because my blog entries get imported to my Facebook Notes, which strips out all the applied styles. To get a "clean" copy of the list for your own blog, follow the link above.)
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
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
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 XXX
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. SAURKRAUT
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 XXX
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu XXX
47. CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA
48. Eel
49. KRISPY CREME ORIGINAL GLAZED DONUT
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. FROG'S 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 XXX
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
Well...I've only actually eaten 29 of the 100 foods on this list. That puts me squarly in the "North American Food Retard" category. But there are only four of these foods I would NOT eat: Raw Scotch Bonnet Peppers (I don't like my food to hurt me), Whole Insects (purely by gut reaction...eeeew!), fugu and roadkill (I don't believe in risking my life to try something different).
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