Food meme

That food meme that’s going round: Bold what you’ve eaten, strike through what you would never eat.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros – not sure, I’ve had a lot of egg variations in New York for breakfast – this one is eggs with tortillas and a chilli sauce
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht (properly борщ)

10. Baba ghanoush – wasn’t sure what this was: apparently it is an aubergine mush served in the Eastern Med, and therefore in Lebanese restaurants
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich – I hate peanut butter. Also this is an American meme so “jelly” = “jam”.
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses – a cheese I don’t recall ever trying.
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
– assuming this just means dim sum
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes – definition debatable, but I’m sure I’ve had them
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
– what’s so exotic about that???
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper – don’t think so, not sure.
27. Dulce de leche in ice cream – don’t think so, not sure.
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
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 – Britain’s favourite dish!
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer – I think so, not sure.
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
– live in Heilbronn for a few months, they were inescapable.
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV – yeah, I live in Belgium!!!
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 – basically anything made from deep-fried dough.
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost – don’t think so, not sure.
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 – not sure if it was the tasting menu, but I ate at one a few months back. (Someone else paid.)
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 – don’t think so, not sure.
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

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