The Omnivore's 100

Lets be honest, I am a foodie... Many of my posts will be about food, since I love it. So what better way to start than with the Omnivores 100.

The Omnivore's Hundred is an eclectic and entirely subjective list of 100 items that Andrew Wheeler, co-author of the British food blog Very Good Taste, thinks every omnivore should try at least once in his life. He offered this list as the starting point for a game, along the following rules:

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.
4. Optional extra: post a comment on Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

I have added the WOW comment for items which I refuse to eat due to my religious health code, the Word of Wisdom.

Seems I am just under 75% on completeness, but 12 of those are Anti-WOW

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea (and delicious nettle gouda...)

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile

6. Black pudding (in the form of boudin)

7. Cheese fondue (I even own a fondue pot)

8. Carp

9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari

12. Phở

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 (WOW)

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream (a recipe to boot? pistachio gelato)

21. Heirloom tomatoes

22. Fresh wild berries

23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn, or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (I'm counting the habenero, which is in the same family)

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters

29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl

33. Salted lassi (but i love mango lassi!)

34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar (WOW)

37. Clotted cream tea (WOW)

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (WOW)

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects

43. Phaal

44. Goat’s milk

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/€80/$120 or more (WOW)

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 (WOW)

58. Beer above 8% ABV (WOW)

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips

61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads

63. Kaolin

64. Currywurst

65. Durian

66. Frogs’ legs (recipe here)

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 (WOW)

74. Gjetost, or brunost (not something i will say often, but a FOUL cheese!)

75. Roadkill

76. Baijiu (WOW)

77. Hostess Fruit Pie

78. Snail

79. Lapsang souchong (WOW)

80. Bellini (WOW)

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 (Used it daily in France... but not the rose version...)

94. Catfish

95. Mole poblano

96. Bagel and lox

97. Lobster Thermidor

98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (WOW)

100. Snake