Food Meme

From mevennen via desperance

Note: I wasn't sure how to cross through things I would never eat so I underlined them instead.

On with the meme:

Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

Here’s what I want you to do:
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 here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The odder ones did originally come with Wikipedia links, but those have got lost en route and I'm sorry, I'm not going to reinstate them.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. Peanut Butter & Jelly 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
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
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
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 (not on purpose)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
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
58. Beer above 8% ABV
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
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill ('Stop the car! I've just seen a.....[fill in blanks])
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
90. Criollo chocolate
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

Food Meme

From mevennen via desperance

Note: I wasn't sure how to cross through things I would never eat so I underlined them instead.

On with the meme:

Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

Here’s what I want you to do:
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 here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The odder ones did originally come with Wikipedia links, but those have got lost en route and I'm sorry, I'm not going to reinstate them.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. Peanut Butter & Jelly 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
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
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
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 (not on purpose)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
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
58. Beer above 8% ABV
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
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill ('Stop the car! I've just seen a.....[fill in blanks])
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
90. Criollo chocolate
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

Why Didn't I Enjoy...?

I just read Terry Pratchett's 'Last Continent' after many years of putting it off because a) it's Rincewind and b) it's Australia. Sadly I was right to put it off. I LOVE all things Pratchett... usually... but this one just never seemed to get going. It was a collection of Rincewindly sketches shambling in no particular direction, coupled with a collection of Wizardly sketches shambling round in circles and disappearing up their own fundamentals. Very disappointing, especially when you look at the dramatic tension and narrative drive of (say) 'Lords and Ladies' or 'Night Watch'.

I feared it might be a collection of obvious Aussie jokes and... it was, from Roo Beer to a place called Didjabringabeeralong.

Having once played at a folk festival in Nannup (Western Australia) and discovered that the -up ending to town names in the local Aboriginal dialect means 'a place of...' we'd already done those jokes in the car. Nannup means 'place of rest' so:

Feetup = also - like Nannup - place of rest
Bellyup = place of eternal rest
Pissup = place of big parties
Fukup = place of mistakes ditto Mixup (and yes we got Buggerup, too)
Stickup = place of robberies
Fixup = place of repair shops
Throwup = place of unhygenic restaurants
Coughup = place where you pay your debts
Fessup = place of lawcourts

OK that's enough of that. I still haven't read Making Money - that's on my to read pile and I'm looking forward to it - though ideally I want another Sam Vimes book, and soon please.

I'm making a real effor to read more, but finding time is difficult.

Why Didn't I Enjoy...?

I just read Terry Pratchett's 'Last Continent' after many years of putting it off because a) it's Rincewind and b) it's Australia. Sadly I was right to put it off. I LOVE all things Pratchett... usually... but this one just never seemed to get going. It was a collection of Rincewindly sketches shambling in no particular direction, coupled with a collection of Wizardly sketches shambling round in circles and disappearing up their own fundamentals. Very disappointing, especially when you look at the dramatic tension and narrative drive of (say) 'Lords and Ladies' or 'Night Watch'.

I feared it might be a collection of obvious Aussie jokes and... it was, from Roo Beer to a place called Didjabringabeeralong.

Having once played at a folk festival in Nannup (Western Australia) and discovered that the -up ending to town names in the local Aboriginal dialect means 'a place of...' we'd already done those jokes in the car. Nannup means 'place of rest' so:

Feetup = also - like Nannup - place of rest
Bellyup = place of eternal rest
Pissup = place of big parties
Fukup = place of mistakes ditto Mixup (and yes we got Buggerup, too)
Stickup = place of robberies
Fixup = place of repair shops
Throwup = place of unhygenic restaurants
Coughup = place where you pay your debts
Fessup = place of lawcourts

OK that's enough of that. I still haven't read Making Money - that's on my to read pile and I'm looking forward to it - though ideally I want another Sam Vimes book, and soon please.

I'm making a real effor to read more, but finding time is difficult.

London Flat Hunting

Number one daughter and her partner are flat hunting in London. Does anyone have any contacts or ideas? Their budget is £300 per week max. Daughter works in Hammersmith. Partner in Canary Wharf.

London Flat Hunting

Number one daughter and her partner are flat hunting in London. Does anyone have any contacts or ideas? Their budget is £300 per week max. Daughter works in Hammersmith. Partner in Canary Wharf.