A disease caught from Jayne with a why...
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.
I don't know how to score out text so you'll have to put up with a * instead.
1. Venison
Lovely. Especially in the pub at Corfe with a blue vinney cheese sauce.
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
At Key West, the Californian cocktail joint that used to be at the Bustan Rotana. It was far too successful and enjoyable a place so they closed it and turned into a skanky TGI Friday’s.
6. Black pudding
Topped with apple and pine nuts. Must post the recipe over at The Fat Expat one of the days.
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
Ghanoush? Yanks! Gannoug or ghanouj in Khaleeji!
11. Calamari
Oddly enough, the Irish Village calamari isn't bad...
12. Pho
Yum
* 13. PB&J (peanut butter & jelly) sandwich
Have not, will not. This is just wrong.
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
It’s a cheese, Keefie. And it’s smelly.
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
My dad always made shockingly bad elderflower wine. One year it fermented in the bottle and turned into amazingly good elderflower champagne.
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
(Non-hybrid toms)
22. Fresh wild berries
Only an American could consider eating something that hadn't been tinned, frozen, preserved or mixed with artificial ingredients as unusual!
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
I once put them into a duck soup made from the bones of a particularly fiery bebek batutu I'd cooked. A thankfully rare occasion - a total dinner party disaster. Guests clutching at throats and everything. I try not to remember it.
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
Don’t like ‘em.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
HMHB and I were actually nibbling ‘em at the Fairmont Cigar Bar the other night at The Fat Expat Birthday before the evening kicked off and the exotic dancers appeared.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
* 35. Root beer float
I’ve done root beer and it was gross. Ice cream on it? Are you MAD?
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
Before I gave up cigars, aye. Thankfully haven’t given up cognac!
37. Clotted cream tea
Ooh matron!
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
* 42. Whole insects
Can’t really see the appeal...
43. Phaal
Fal or phall to you mate. Hotter than vindaloo and a mad thing to eat.
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
Nope. Not really tempted, either, despite a mad foodie’s curiosity.
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
To my eternal shame, it’s a yes.
50. Sea urchin
Yes.And jelly fish. Both once only experiences, I’m afraid...
51. Prickly pear
Discovered this, cactus fruit, in Jordan. Nice.
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
Blush
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
A major favourite.
58. Beer above 8% ABV
Obviously. The last one I had was the excellent Chalky’s Ale, brewed to commemorate Rich Stein’s dog!
59. Poutine
Chips, cheese and gravy? Too North American for me...
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
See poutine
62. Sweetbreads
Borrocks
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
I first had it as a Durian Dunkin’ Donut in Bali, believe it or not! The actual fruit tastes pretty good if you can get past the smell! Carrefour sells it...
66. Frogs’ legs
A friend used to have ‘em flown in from Beirut. Lovely!
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
* 70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
Pig anus. Probably not.
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
Never come across it.
75. Roadkill
Not knowingly, at least...
76. Baijiu
* 77. Hostess Fruit Pie
You must be mad.
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
Strangely enough, no
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
Does gravadlax count?
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
No. Probably would, but it's never appeared on a menu in my hands...
* 101. Deep-fried Mars Bar
I don’t think I could, Keefie!
everyone's jumping boat, i may just do this soon...
ReplyDeleteYou said you wouldn't! Hah!
ReplyDeleteHeh - he couldn't resist the challenge. But he isn't anyone until he's done a deep fried Mars Bar!
ReplyDelete31 - try wasabi popcorn on etisalad airlines... i still don't know how popcorn can taste japanese.
ReplyDelete82 - eggs benedict, love it on the fulham road....
88 - flowers - ahem. if not edible, they are on purchase :P flowers girl's best friend dude lol
97 - Lobster Thermidor - yumm...local rabyan rocks
deep-fried mars bar a northern thing but somewhat of a legacy coz not freely available - I'd hope they don't reuse the fat they use to make the good old chip butty
ReplyDelete"But he isn't anyone until he's done a deep fried Mars Bar!"
ReplyDeleteIt's one short step from that to a battered deep-fried calzone. The damn Scots will eat anything. I'm not going there. No no no no no.
88. Borage. Lovely. Stuffed courgette flowers. Lovely. Rose petal jam. Lovely. Orange and rose water. Lovely. What a waste giving flowers to girls when you could be eating them!!!! :)
i*maginate - of course they do. And to be truly authentic you should sprinkle it with salt and either vinegar or tomato ketchup .... yum
ReplyDelete*rose in dubai, to top it all off, I like a good sprinkling of black pepper, and a heapful of mayonnaise - malt vinegar as the first topping does it for me!
ReplyDelete(Local chip butty in demand)
*alexander, good skill to be able to cultivate tasty bouquets and do them well. Bon apetit!
ReplyDeleteFrom your snide comments about North American food I assume your British. Amazing snobbery for a person from a country that is known worldwide for it's terrible cuisine. Maybe you should get off your high horse and actually try some of the foods you have deemed "too North American." May I recommend humble pie?
ReplyDeleteSure. Happy to taste it. As long as it's not horribly over-processed and stuffed full of GM ingredients, powerful chemical flavoids, colourants and cheap natural food alternatives.
ReplyDelete