Nosh Posh

I heard about the VGT Omnivore’s Hundred while perusing the food blog lists. The rules are easy, just mark which of the 100 listed foods you’ve had the pleasure of wolfing, sampling, or regurgitating.

It’s not one of those be-all and end-all foodie lists, still it’s interesting and has a wide variety of edibles. I say edible because I’m not sure everything is actually food.

If it’s in bold, I’ve eaten it. If not, I haven’t. I haven’t eaten 28 items listed. Coolness.

1. Venison (Bambi is scrumptious)

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile

6. Black pudding (At the Witchery in Edinburgh Scotland, where the people making reservations before us told us about the ghost they’d encountered in their room the night before)

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 (Pomegranate Wine)

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes (qualification: home grown tomatoes from harvested seeds)

22. Fresh wild berries (qualification: berries that weren’t obtained from a shop, but from friends’ (and strangers’) yards)

23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn, or head cheese (I’ll try this just to have a tongue of steel and a stomach of…I dunno…lead?)

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 (Splash Café in Pismo Beach, CA makes the BEST FUCKING CLAM CHOWDER!)

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar

37. Clotted cream tea

38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (My best friend Kelly’s recipe for this is bloody lethal. Good bye world!)

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat (I love curry and goat but I’ve yet to have them together)

42. Whole insects (my boy loves insects. I can’t get into them yet.)

43. Phaal

44. Goat’s milk

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth (Ardbeg muthfuckas)

46. Fugu (no blowfish for me yet!)

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 (I’m reminded of a journey to the only German restaurant in Bakersfield, CA where the owner told my friend (her employee) to make sure the nice group of Germans coming to eat that night didn’t know she was of French heritage.)

57. Dirty gin martini (the only way to have a martini babe!)

58. Beer above 8% ABV (Chimay Blue Label)

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips

61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads

63. Kaolin (qualification: in the form of freshly picked fruit/veggies that haven’t been washed)

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 (Possibly, there was this odd incident at the castle in Heidelberg, Germany when I was 17.)

90. Criollo chocolate (All RICHART chocolate is made with Criollo chocolate and I had some on my recent chocolate crawl adventure.)

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