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what’s your foody score ?

http://lemmonex.com/2008/09/10/vegetaria…

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This list has been all over the internet. I had to pile on to the heap.

Very Good Taste, a food blog in the UK, put together a list of 100 foods they think every omnivore should try before they die.

My score: 52 eaten out of 100. I’ll never get higher than 90 or so because I’m a teetotaler.

  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
  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

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12 Responses to “what’s your foody score ?”

  1. mark Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am

    79

  2. Matt Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Wow, you’ve got some pretty good stuff crossed out. Borscht, black truffle, dulce de leche, harissa, oxtail, poutine… All yummy and no booze or weird organ meat in any of them. I mean geez, dulce de leche is just caramel. If you’ve ever had caramel on a sundae, you’ve had dulce de leche.

  3. erica Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    I’ve only eaten about 22 of those and have no real interest in trying the rest!

  4. Patrick Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Also 79.

    I have a great recipe for borscht, adapted from watching a Russian grandmother making it in Leniningrad when it was still Leningrad, which I’ll post here if you’d like tjic.

    On the Russian front, I’ll point out that horsemeat is seven kinds of awesome if you can get over the fact that horses are great animals. And the list doesn’t even have bear meat, which I’ve eaten but can’t stand. When people complain that meat is “gamey” they mean bear, even if they’ve never eaten it.

    I draw the line at dogs.

  5. Ken Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    58.

  6. Jody Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    74. Not a foody, but like to order things I’ve never eaten before. I had a horse steak in Switzerland. It was tough – didn’t like it.

  7. tjic Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    [quote comment="163376"]
    I draw the line at dogs.[/quote]

    I’d never eat dog, but in the appropriate situations (snowed in mountain pass, etc.) I’d eat those that ‘et dog.

  8. Lemmonex Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    I would eat dog if in a foreign land and it was a delicacy…why not? We have just been socialized not to eat them.

  9. tjic Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    [quote comment="163428"]I would eat dog if in a foreign land and it was a delicacy…why not? We have just been socialized not to eat them.[/quote]

    Hey Lemmonex! Welcome!

    I wouldn’t eat dogs because (a) I already feel a bit conflicted about eating animals at all, and it’s a sliding scale with cuter, cuddlier, smarter, more human-like animals being less acceptable; (b) I try to only eat ethically raised meat, and I can’t imagine that the methods of raising or slaughtering dogs is ethical.

    I sound like some bleeding heart leftist, but for the record, I’m socially conservative, pro-military, and pro-hunting.

    Dog might taste like pumpkin pie, but I won’t know, because I won’t eat anything that I like and respect.

    (Which is why I would eat humans in an emergency, if necessary).

  10. miriam Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    There are some things I don’t understand that are on the list, and some things that are missing that I think should be on….
    Hostess fruit pie???
    Why not red velvet cake? Or blackberry pie? Or chocolate pudding?
    Why not saginaki (greek fried cheese, set on fire with rum and put out with lemon juice)?
    Huevos rancheros– why not guacomole? Or menudo?
    Why not nutella? Or peanut butter and banana and honey on toasted bread? why not yorkshire pudding or pot roast? why not turducken?

  11. Noah D Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    [quote comment="163475"]Why not saginaki (greek fried cheese, set on fire with rum and put out with lemon juice)?[/quote]

    I must have this. ASA*P.

  12. Kevin Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 1:42 am

    [quote comment="163492"][quote comment="163475"]Why not saginaki (greek fried cheese, set on fire with rum and put out with lemon juice)?[/quote]

    I must have this. ASA*P.[/quote]

    That was pretty much my reaction, too. Does the Daphne’s chain do saginaki?