The Food meme

 

Stole this from Blackbird - that girl does all the best memes. Please feel free to join in.

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

1. Venison - have a great recipe for venison stew with chestnuts. But please note, when the kids ask what's for dinner, under no circumstances should you reply 'Bambi'.
2. Nettle tea - when I was pregnant - it's meant to contain folic acid. But it smells like cat pee.
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare - a memorable meal at the Swiss Centre when I was about 13. I went for a day out by a friend of my mother's - she took me to Harrods and bought me bronzer. Funny how these things lodge in your memory.
5. Crocodile - in a Northumberlad pub. I was so disappointed that it wasn't more exciting.
6. Black pudding - I LOVE black pudding. You can make it into hamburgers with minced pork which are scrummy.
7. Cheese fondue - I am a child of the 70's. Need i say more?
8. Carp - I don't think so. But if Mark's goldfish continues to grow, we may well have to.
9. Borscht - it's great for half a bowlful. Then it makes me want to gag.
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari - for lunch today, co-incidentally.
12. Pho - this is the noise the boys make when I slip something they don't like into their innocent little mouths.
13. PB&J sandwich - comfort food.
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart - well, a football stadium. At one of those stalls where the onions have been frying for about a million years and you can smell them on your jacket for days afterwards.
16. Epoisses - had to look this one up. I'm evidently not very cheese literate.
17. Black truffle - shaved over something or other. Can't see what all the fuss is about, personally.
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - oh, my teenage years come flooding back. Illegally purchased fruit wine, drunk from the bottle behind one bush or another. Very naughty, but not at all nice.
19. Steamed pork buns - oh yes. Often. We used to go to Chinatown in Yokohama on Sundays when the shops have mobile carts of these outside. The scent on the air made me drool like Pavlov's dogs. I have a six pack in the freezer I think - must liberate them.
20. Pistachio ice cream - a must on any trip to France. Not commonly available in our neck of the woods.
21. Heirloom tomatoes - the weirder the better. I love the stripey ones - mainly for their looks.
22. Fresh wild berries - we're hardened blackberry foragers.
23. Foie gras - it's just pate really, when all's said and done.
24. Rice and beans - yeah, with ribs. My Mum makes a great version.
25. Brawn, or head cheese - if you called it head cheese, I wouldn't have. But I actually really like it. My Mother can make this too, but I never paid close attention as to how (probably no bad thing).
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - no, I value the surface of my tongue too much. A little in something else is fine. Raw and solo is just a bit silly.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - love 'em.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda - Always thought this sounded fantastic though.
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - in Boston. At great long communal table with red checked tablecloths and a bib. I make my own, but it's not as good.
33. Salted lassi - I'm not big on yoghurty drinks.
34. Sauerkraut - like it lots. Especially with German sausages.
35. Root beer float - yes, but too sweet for my grown-up self.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar - not going to happen in this lifetime.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O - we made this in my student flat. So much vodka in it, we were forced to slurp it through straws from the dish because it wouldn't set. I seem to recall it was green, but I could be wrong...
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail - when BSE was rife and on the bone beef was not sold in the UK, my mother would obtain illicit supplies from the back door at the Butcher's.
41. Curried goat - yes, from a Carribean Restaurant in Oxford. There were no prices on the menu, the owner charged you what he thought you could afford to pay. We were students and dressed down. Dinner was always a bargain.
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal - it's not food, it's posturing.
44. Goat’s milk - yup, straight from a goat and still warm.
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more - My Dad's. He's a fan.
46. Fugu - it's terribly expensive to eat Fugu in Japan. So I didn't. Not 'cause I was a scaredy cat. Honest.
47. Chicken tikka masala - It's practicaly our national dish in the UK
48. Eel - Jellied. Not very nice. Unagi (Japanese). Very nice.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - would you believe I'm a Krispy Kreme Virgin? I've been tempted, but not fallen (yet).
50. Sea urchin - In Japan, as sushi. Uni - tastes good.
51. Prickly pear - no, but I know how to pick one.
52. Umeboshi - gosh, there are a lot of Japanese foods in this list. Yes, frequently.
53. Abalone - nope.
54. Paneer - another cheezy no.
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle - a big camping trip through Germany fuelled mainly by spaetzle.
57. Dirty gin martini - what is dirty gin?  I'm more of a Gordon's girl. My party trick used to be to identify gins by nose alone. Gordon's for everyday, Bombay Sapphire for best.
58. Beer above 8% ABV - I honestly have not the foggiest idea what the %ABV of any beer I've ever drunk is.  But given that I am a serious beer fan, I'm going to say yes.
59. Poutine - I've never encountered this in real life. Thankfully.
60. Carob chips - why use fake when you can eat the real thing?
61. S’mores - no! Outrageous. Must remedy this.
62. Sweetbreads - they didn't do much for me.
63. Kaolin - clay? Are you kidding? Of course I haven't eaten it. Or coal, or my car or any other things that aren't food.
64. Currywurst - can't say I'm queuing up to sample this one.
65. Durian - I don't think it smells so bad.
66. Frogs’ legs - no, but only because the opportunity has never arisen.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis - I used to live just down the road from the Macsweens factory in Edinburgh. I love haggis. Even more, I love haggis bubble and squeak with the leftovers the next day. I'm even partial to the veggie version.
69. Fried plantain - my babysitter used to make plantain chips. Yum yum.
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - I've eaten intestines as Japanes street food (yummy), but I'm not sure if this is the same.
71. Gazpacho - yum.
72. Caviar and blini - only the cheap stuff, sadly.
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - no. Cheese illiterate, I tell you.
75. Roadkill - Not knowingly. But then you never know if a host is being thrifty do you?
76. Baijiu - no. Sounds like rocket fuel.
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - I read so much about these in my Caspar and Richie Rich comics as a child, but I have never eaten one. Or a Twinkie. I feel deprived.
78. Snail - I like snails a lot - they're a great vehicle for garlic butter.
79. Lapsang souchong - yes, but it's not my favourite.
80. Bellini - not nearly enough though.
81. Tom yum - Thailand's best cold remedy. Gets all bunged up stuffiness flowing.
82. Eggs Benedict - for me, the Hollandaise  is a step too far. Muffin ham and poached egg is better.
83. Pocky - all hail the Pocky. Preferably the almond version.
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. How much would I like to though. Perhaps The Fat Duck.
85. Kobe beef - everything you've heard and more.
86. Hare - aren't they a protected species?
87. Goulash - oh yes. I have a source of very good smoked paprika.
88. Flowers - they look better than they taste don't they?
89. Horse - yes and it was gorgeous. Sorry.
90. Criollo chocolate - I plan on tasting many more types of chocolate before I'm done.
91. Spam - yes, but not with any pleasure. Mark keeps asking me to buy it in the supermarket. And Smash. Bleurgh.
92. Soft shell crab - one to taste still.
93. Rose harissa - my Dad makes a great couscous dish and I'm sure this is what he uses.
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor - this used to be Sunday night dinner at a beachside restaurant when we lived in Tonga. We ate it so often, I actually got a bit fed up with it. How's that for spoiled?
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake - I'd rather eat it than have it as a pet.

Amazing how many specific food memories that dredged up for me - very vivid ones too. I am fairly adventurous and largely un-fussy when it comes to food (and reasonably un-squeamish too). Though I think the photo of that Poutine is going to give me nightmares.