My friend Char alerted me to this – thanks Char!
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From Serious Eats comes a push to Very Good Taste, which posted The Omnivore’s Hundred (“a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life”).
If you don’t recognize everything in the list, Wikipedia usually has the description. The goal is to try everything eventually, although you can cross out those things you plan on never trying.
From Very Good Taste:
- Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
- Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
- Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
- Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
Here’s my take on the VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
- Venison
- Nettle tea
- Huevos rancheros
- Steak tartare
- Crocodile (I’ve also had alligator)
- Black pudding
- Cheese fondue
- Carp
- Borscht
- Baba ghanoush
- Calamari
- Pho
- PB&J sandwich
- Aloo gobi
- Hot dog from a street cart
- Epoisses
- Black truffle (a tiny bit!)
- Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
- Steamed pork buns
- Pistachio ice cream
- Heirloom tomatoes
- Fresh wild berries
- Foie gras
- Rice and beans
- Brawn, or head cheese
- Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (just a tiny bit!)
- Dulce de leche (something very similar made by heating a can of condensed milk)
- Oysters
- Baklava
- Bagna cauda
- Wasabi peas
- Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
- Salted lassi
- Sauerkraut
- Root beer float
- Cognac with a fat cigar (well, it was a thin cigar!)
- Clotted cream tea
- Vodka jelly/Jell-O
- Gumbo
- Oxtail
- Curried goat
- Whole insects (though I have eaten witchetty grubs…)
- Phaal
- Goat’s milk
- Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
- Fugu
- Chicken tikka masala
- Eel
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
- Sea urchin
- Prickly pear
- Umeboshi
- Abalone
- Paneer
- McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (once!)
- Spaetzle
- Dirty gin martini
- Beer above 8% ABV
- Poutine
- Carob chips
- S’mores
- Sweetbreads
- Kaolin
- Currywurst
- Durian
- Frogs’ legs
- Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
- Haggis
- Fried plantain
- Chitterlings, or andouillette
- Gazpacho
- Caviar and blini
- Louche absinthe
- Gjetost, or brunost
- Roadkill
- Baijiu
- Hostess Fruit Pie
- Snail
- Lapsang souchong
- Bellini
- Tom yum
- Eggs Benedict
- Pocky
- Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
- Kobe beef
- Hare
- Goulash
- Flowers
- Horse
- Criollo chocolate
- Spam
- Soft shell crab
- Rose harissa
- Catfish
- Mole poblano
- Bagel and lox
- Lobster Thermidor
- Polenta
- Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
- Snake
Well, surprisingly I’ve eaten 61 of those foods! So…how good an omnivore are you?
Update 2014: Bolded two more on the list, so I’ve now eaten 63 of them
Rhonda Bracey: At Random 
My heart is weeping that you’ve never had a Krispy Kreme while the “Hot Donuts Now” sign was lit.
That, and I’m wondering why you didn’t strike out “roadkill!!”
Krispy Kreme has been something I’ve been meaning to try when I’m in the US (as far as I know their only Australian stores are in Sydney near the airport).
And I didn’t strike out roadkill because I’ve known people to eat the deer they hit, or the kangaroo (in Australia). I’ve eaten kangaroo (nice!) and emu (awful) and camel (nice) and water buffalo (nice). I can’t guarantee that every piece of kangaroo I’ve ever eaten was from a ‘farm’. In fact, years ago when I lived ‘up north’, friends used to go out ‘roo and wild goat shooting on a sheep station and we’d cook and eat the meat. It wasn’t roadkill as such, but it sure wasn’t farmed!! So that’s why I didn’t take roadkill off. If it was killed some time ago by someone else, then ‘Yewww!!’ and ‘No way!’, but if you’d hit the beast yourself, then that’d be a different decision to make. It would probably be ‘No way!’ but I couldn’t guarantee it.
Rhonda and I never found a Krispy Kreme shop when we were travelling together or she would have tried one 😉
I can’t believe that she’s never had oysters or a root beer float!
I just take one look at oysters and feel like throwing up! I *might* be able to do something like Oysters Kilpatrick (the cooked ones with the bacon?), but not the raw guys. Ewww!
And I’m not a fan of root beer (which is hard to get in Australia). However, as a kid we used to have what we called “spiders”, made from Coke and ice cream or Fanta and ice cream. Is that similar?
I guess I can accept the roadkill in the same way I that “Alive,” eat-it-or-die sort of way.
Dead on with the rootbeer float: root beer and ice cream. Best with IBC root beer.
To be honest, this list floors me. As a foodie and Food Network addict, I’m surprised how many of the items I’m completely unfamiliar with.
I do like emu, though. 🙂
Oh, and BTW, I’m with Rhonda on the oysters issue. Yuck.
Trust me if you’ve ever eaten in an Indian Restaurant in the UK you’ve eaten roadkill!!
Krispy Kreme’s are now all over the East Coast (had some in Melbourne while at AODC last year). Stores opened up in Brisbane in late April. There’s two in the city, and at least one at Pacific Fair on the old Coast. So, next time you’re here, you can try one!