Food meme, Mo's version

[salinea]

Lended kindly by the amazing catrionamacnair

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.


1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare (had a taste, would probably not eat a full plate)
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue (yummy!)
8. Carp
9. Borsc
10. Baba ghanoush Sounds like caviar d'aubergine, if so yes.
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich yikes!
14. Aloo gobi (what is it?)
15. Hot dog from a street cart don't eat pork
16. Epoisses what is it?)
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream don't like icecreams
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras means of production squick me
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (what is it?)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters another squick, it's alive when you eat it, WTF!
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 Maybe.
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi I think
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV don't like beer
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (what's that?)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs I think I tasted it once in a Chinese restaurant
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 I tried absinthe before (didn't like it), is that the same as louch absinthe?
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong yummy!
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare not kosher
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse not kosher
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

Comments

[rebbe]

Baba ghanoush is an India eggplant dip and is absolutely delicious :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

sounds good! should taste. Wish there were decent Indian restaurants in Paris.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

But if caviar d'aubergine is the same thing as caponata (chopped eggplant with currants and pine nuts and tomatoes), it's not the same as baba ganoush, which is a puree of eggplant with garlic and tahini (sesame paste). Both are delicious. It's often found in North African restaurants, so you can probably get it in Paris.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

well caviar d'aubergine is more like mashed eggplant with mashed garlic, lemon and olive sauce, I think. But no sesame paste that I know off, although I should ask my mother for her recipe I guess.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds good, too! If you get her recipe, let us have it (if she's willing).

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I will! I'm sure she wouldn't mind. I just don't cook a lot myself, which is a shame but heh...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Of course my mum's from North Africa so that's probably where she got it from.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'll bet she knows some version of baba ghanoush. I've had it in Moroccan restaurants in the US, for sure.

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

14. Aloo gobi (what is it?)
It's a kind of Indian vegetable curry.

Epoisses is a cheese that smells so badly that it's forbidden on trains and in public buildings. It's really quite stunning.

Louche absinthe is just absinthe drunk with water and a bit of sugar. It's quite a ritual to mix it.

I really, really want to know what Kaolin is supposed to be.

[miss-sand.livejournal.com]

Kaolin is a sort of clay ;-)

Don't remember if it's the green or the white one.

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

The clay I knew (I work for a ceramics company, and this is our main ingredient), but... why is that on a food list? I was hoping it's some obscure kind of food somewhere.

[miss-sand.livejournal.com]

It's a quite common food ingredient, especially in food supplement.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

aah, I think that's the kind of absinthe I drunk then.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Very poor people in the south of the USA were supposed to eat clay, maybe because of a disease called pica, and maybe because they didn't have anything else.

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

That could be it, though it's odd that they pick such a specific type of clay.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

It is. Here's some research on it.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Very poor people in the south of the USA were supposed to eat clay, maybe because of a disease called pica, and maybe because they didn't have anything else.

[hamsterwoman]

I didn't realize you kept kosher! (Which, year, rather limits the number of things on this list you could eat... Wait, are frogs kosher?)

caviar d'aubergine

I didn't realize you said "caviar" about these veggie things in French -- that's what you do in Russian, too. I'm not sure baba ghanoush is the exact same thing (it all tastes like eggplant to me...), but certainly similar.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I don't really really keep kosher. I just don't eat pork. And horses and hare but that doesn't really come up often. I eat lots of seafood and mix milk and meat too >_>;;

I'm not sure why it's called caviar! I thought it was because it looked like a fluid mashed thing in the end? Anyway, it's a very good eggplant meal ^^

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, it's probably "caviar" because it does look a little bit like very fine roe... I like eggplant caviar OK, but my favorite is squash caviar -- same deal, but I think it's a little... smoother -- less acidic, maybe.

My husband doesn't eat pork (even though he doesn't keep kosher either), and gives me grief that I do. (Very occasionally, I'm mostly a poultry-meat eater, really.) Upon which I mock him for having eaten cold cuts made out of horsemeat.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

lol

yeah, sounds like me :)

[layniapetrovna.livejournal.com]

But I think New York hot dogs from street cars are non-pork (beef?), IIRC.
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[etrangere.livejournal.com]

But I don't like in New York

[miss-sand.livejournal.com]

L'Epoisses est un fromage de Bourgogne. On le mange frais (pas trop de goût) ou bien fait (ça pue pas tant que ça, on est loin du muster).

Le kaolin c'est de l'argile (verte ou blanche, je ne sais plus). Comme ce n'est pas très bon, c'est en général mis dans des compléments alimentaires, mais on en trouve en sachet.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

faudra que je goute un jour.

Ca se mange l'argile??? O_o

[miss-sand.livejournal.com]

ben oui.

et certaines pierres calcaires aussi.

C'est plein d'oligo-éléments.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

>

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

I've eaten a large percentage of that list. And most of it was delicious ;).

PB&J and oysters (not together!) are two of my favorite things, so I'm stunned to see both crossed off.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

peanut butter is something only Americans and crazies can eat.

explained myself already about oyster. They're alive while you eat them. ALIVE!!

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

ALIVE with GOODNESS!!! The salt of the sea! Now I want an oyster.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

ALIVE!!

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you have Caviar d'aubergine as well? I know the russian version, it's great.

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

..should have read the comments first, sorry for repeating the obvious :)

As I've had to google half of the list, the Scotch Bonnet Peppers are apparently one of the really hot peperony varieties.

[bazzlebane.livejournal.com]

The mother of all hot pepper varieties. Better known to some as a Habanero.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I didn't know it was russian!

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

You've never eaten black pudding? That was one of my favorites growing up; still is, though finding good black pudding here in the U.S. is difficult. It's yummy; at least the Caribbean version. :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm Jewish and French. I don't eat coagulated blood pork sausage. It's a thing.

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

The West Indies' version of black pudding is actually made with cow blood, I believe. Not that that sounds much more appetizing to you, I'm sure. :P

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Barely...

[solesakuma]

27. Dulce de leche ----> Why not? It's delicious. Unless you don't like sweet things.
Also: it amuses the hell out of me that it's considered somewhat exotic.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It sounds way too sweet for me, yes. I'm incredibly picky about sweat things, unless it's chocolate based I tend not to like them.