Picky, Picky, Picky

[filkertom]

I've always been a picky eater. Not nearly as bad now as I was when I was a kid, though. Literally, at this point there are likely fifteen or twenty foods I've firmly ruled out, mostly through having tried them multiple times and deciding I'm just Not The Audience for that particular flavor. (Licorice is the most blatant that leaps to mind, followed by asparagus.) When I was a kid, there were only fifteen or twenty foods I liked.

Which leads us to The Foodie Meme, courtesy of selenesue .

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
Bold those you have tried.
Strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea*
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile [alligator, actually]
6. Black pudding*
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
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
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
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* (I hate coffee. I hate it. But people tell me this is the coffee that will change my mind)
100. Snake

Some of these, I'm quite sure I would try, if I knew what they were. Guess I'll have to find out. I also think there should be an option for, "tried it, s'okay or not to my taste, not likely to have it again, but I'd be fine if that was all there was to eat". A number of things above, mostly seafood (which kinda surprises me, actually), would be on that list.

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

There were a few there that even I had to look up. But you sound just like my "little" brother, who eats more things than he did when he as actually little and it amazes me. How you get so big eating food of this kind? [/yoda voice]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was all the frickin' Pepsi and Better Mades.... :-7

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

oooooh, icon for the win! :)

Coffee

[loriruadh.livejournal.com]

Jamaican Blue Mountain IS good, but I find pure Kona to be its equal, and Kona is not as expensive as JBM.

The key here is getting the correct roast for the beans which is a medium to light roast rather than dark. When correctly roasted, both of these coffees have a floral bouquet which is very pleasant, and leave a sweet finish in the mouth. Some Kona coffees have a note of chocolate in the flavor.

(Note: Neither of these coffees are cheap -- last time I looked pure Kona was going for $25-30 a pound, and JBM for twice that.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

And have I ever argued that point? ;)

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, Poutine! Death on a plate! Mmmm...

French Fries mixed with half-melted cheese curds, smothered in gravy, and drizzled with either mayo or sour cream ... I've seen it both ways! Tasty, tasty, tasty!

Another thing Canada has, in addition to its health care, over the United States!

Yours,
Sylvan (Dave)

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

The only thing it's missing is bacon.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

And here is how you make it:

http://www.lionking.org/~timonfan/Fun/TimonPoutine/index.htm

[trektone.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, I'm so going to do this one when I have time.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Some tasty things you haven't tried yet! Some of which are very fixable. For instance, if you have the means to make loose tea, Adagio has sample size tins of Lapsang Souchong for $2, and I can send you a $5 off coupon if you like (just tell me what email address). Dragonwater (probably my fave tea company) has several varieties of Lapsang Souchong, with sample pouches going for around a buck. The Tea Table has a couple of varieties as well, and they charge less than $2 an ounce.

It's too hot to mail Pocky, but I'm pretty sure one of the stores I regularly shop at carries wasabi peas; I could send you some if you like (and if I am not misremembering).

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

You can get Pocky at Wal-Mart now. I was totally stunned when I found some in the Asian food section.

[pjhandley.livejournal.com]

ok, so I ran through it myself, and I've tried 67 out of 100. Ask me sometime for my recipe for Oxtail barley soup.....

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Of the starred ones, clam chowder in a sourdough bowl, frogs' legs, eggs benedict, and soft shell crab are the ones I've had and would gladly have again... spider roll (soft shell crab as sushi, either maki or hand roll) is one of my favorite rolls. (Yes, the crab is fully cooked, usually tempura.) I haven't had Jamaican Blue Mountain but I've had some pretty fine cups of joe out here in Coffeetown (let's put it this way, I passed by Starbucks Corporate HQ on the way back from lunch today... and that's considered crap coffee by most of the locals)... it's a whole different world out here WRT coffee.

Ironically? *thinks* I know you can get the chowder, eggs, joe, and spider roll within walking distance of here (FSVO "walking"; if you start from Pike Place Market, "walking" is pretty short).... I don't know where to get the frog legs for sure, but maybe at New Orleans (the name of a restaurant, not the once-flooded remains of a town in LA)...

Hm. I think I can find all but about ten items here. Hard to say which would be my favorite... definitely pass on the spam, though. :)

[pjhandley.livejournal.com]

Spider roll is one of my favorites!

[pooh27bear.livejournal.com]

Do you realize what black pudding is? That is Irish Blood Sausage. Yes, it is made with blood of an animal. I need to do this meme.

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

yeah i know! revolting!!!!!!!! i was so scared when i went ot england that i wouldnt' find anything to eat but they have all kinds of food now, not just fish and chips. and blood pudding. ewwwwwwwwww

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I did the meme here
http://alverant.livejournal.com/15422.html

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

i, being the techo-retardo (and politically incorrect at that), havne't figured out hwo to do strike thrus and bolds and make them stick on LJ. so ehre are my comments
7. Cheese fondue-mmmmmmm
9. Borscht- by accident. thought it was grape juice. oy.
10. Baba ghanoush- yum yum yum
13. PB&J sandwich- what???! only every day from age 3 to 9! and still, quite often. guilty pleasure on occasion: PB & B (butter!)
15. Hot dog from a street cart- too young to die, esp in that manner
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes- what is boone's apple farm wine made from?
24. Rice and beans- all the time! is this a real question?
29. Baklava - delish
31. Wasabi peas. make that pea.
34. Sauerkraut- well yeah. i'm german ya know
35. Root beer float- oh yeah. butmy gram made them with fudge ripple ice crea, isn't that odd?
36. Cognac with a fat cigar- not together, but separately. i do love me a cigar. but i no longer drink
44. Goat’s milk- yup, fine. cheese, even better.
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more*- no but i've had mad dog 20/20, and i drank something flammable once. once.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut- blech. i may be the only person in america who hates glazed donuts
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal- never had it never will
60. Carob chips- not bad when you're off chocolate.
61. S’mores- oh yeah! can't be a girl scout without em

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake- churros- on every corner in miami
69. Fried plantain- not bad
91. Spam- ew. but when i was a kid, yum
94. Catfish- feh
96. Bagel and lox - yum
98. Polenta- sure

i won't eat beef unless i'm starving , literally. i haven't eaten it since i graduated high school and left home, praise be. allergic to shellfish, i miss lobster. i don't eat pork either, or things that are undercooked. suppressed immunity leads to more careful eating!

[connor-campbell.livejournal.com]

i will have to actually go through and do this correctly, but i was amazed at the first read through of all the things i have actually had. as to nettle tea, that is a very old survival trick that my father and i teach to our backpacking classes - stinging nettle tea and pine needle tea, both good, good for you, and easy to make. pine needle tea actually gives you more vitamin c than orange juice. i tend to be a carnivore, though, so not much on the plant end of things. i could live off of correctly cooked alligator. (i am Floridian with Muskokee Creek and Cherokee ancestry). as to coffee, i think it is something evil. i like the opinion of the Lakotas that it must be medicine - anything that tastes that bad must be good for you! LOL!
yeah, i'll be doing this one. i generally don't like things to forward, but this one looks like fun!

[ludzu-alus.livejournal.com]

So, how do you make nettle or pine needle tea? Universe knows, we've got enough pine trees around here! Does it matter what species of pine?

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Bagna cauda?

Ain't that what King John signed?

Oh.
Neeeeevermind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_carta).

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

(Thwap!) with a large anchovy

[ceruleanlobster.livejournal.com]

I'm very squeamish when it comes to food, so I'm very picky when it comes to previously alive food. No snake for me. Definitely no haggis (sorry Scotland. I still love ye). I saw a video of the grossest supposed food I've ever seen in my life. They were baby Octopus tentacles, but they were still moving because they had just been, uh, separated. It was horrifying. The video was taken in a Korean restaurant, and the person eating it was just enjoying the heck out of it. I'm not a vegetarian (used to be), but that seemed absolutely cruel to me. God only knows what happens to the octopi after this is done. I hope for their sake they die quickly!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Have had and would eat again: 1, 3, 6 (but not often), 7, 8 (but very carefully), 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60 (just don't expect chocolate), 61, 62, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75 (but very carefully), 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 87, 88, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Have had, but never again: 4 (lose the raw egg pls)
Have not had but would like to try: 2, 5, 17, 21, 25, 38, 40, 42 (maybe), 46, 53, 65, 68, 70, 78, 84, 85, 86, 89 (only once), 100
Have not had and wouldn't eat on a bet: 26, 36 (no tobacco thanks)
Would need to look up first: 16, 43, 52, 57, 63, 64, 76, 80, 90, 93

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

46. Fugu
What dosage?:P

Also, I'm missing ways to mark stuff you'd love to drink but can't because of health reasons(in my case: almost any coffee)

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Vodka jelly*

My sister has suggested that Jell-O shots count for this, assuming they are made with vodka.

*looks over your list*

Pocky*
Wasabi Peas*

You want I should ship you some?
Any flavor preference on the Pocky?

(You know, if you still want MORE after all the other people who offered first get done with you... ;-) )

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Couldn't fit my comments into the response limit, so:
http://hitchkitty.livejournal.com/100404.html

[david-feuer.livejournal.com]

You haven't tried alu gobi? That's a rather innocuous, and fairly tasty, cauliflower and potato dish from India. The Indians also know how to make okra taste okay, but I wouldn't recommend Indian eggplant. Also, mirch ka salan (curried hot peppers) is for true spice fiends only.