A meme I can get behind: FOOOOD!

[gieves]

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

"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..."

Comments

[sparklie_lady]

Wait...you've never had a jello shot? I think that counts as vodka jello, right?

And if you ever really, really want to eat a Big Mac meal, I will happy enable go with you....

[gieves]

Well... I have had a jello shot. But in New Orleans they were made with Everclear. (*shudder*) So does that count?! It's not vodka, true, but I guess I did make some substitutions in my list...

[butterandjelly]

yeah, we're going to have to fix that

*evil grin*

[aquamindy]

I'm shocked by some of the things you've never had, like sweetbreads, caviar and blini and oxtail (makes a great soup).

[gieves]

Yeah, I know. Anytime I dined in a place that served sweetbreads, there was always something else that I really, really wanted to try. I've had caviar, not blini, and it's entirely possible that I've had oxtail but didn't know it!

See? This gives me goals. :)

[butterandjelly]

I found sweetbreads to be slightly disappointing. exilejedi and C were scooping them up when we were at the Flying Fig but D and I were unimpressed.

[butterandjelly]

y'know...there are quite a few cheeses on this list...

[gieves]

I know, I know. They're also for the most part things that are hard to find in Cleveland. On a trip to Europe, now... ;-)

[butterandjelly]

cheese tour? :-)

[ayb2]

are you sure you haven't had oxtail soup either via me or my parents eating Korean food? :)

[gieves]

Nope! I'm not sure at all, but I've never eaten something that was presented to me as oxtail soup, so I didn't count it...

[darlox]

You have had raw Scotch Bonnet pepper, because I chopped one up in a spicy mango-cilantro salsa once. ;)

I suspect you've had salted lassi too -- because I distinctly remember drinking a really awful and unexpected non-sweet lassi (I think at Kashmir Palace), and really think you were with me.

You've definitely also had vodka jello -- think of those Cosmopolitan-on-a-stick things I made.

I'd be surprised if you hadn't had Kaolin, because it's in a lot of medicines, cosmetics, and used as a food additive when you need an opaque white color. Unless there's some other definition? Very strange item to include on a food test...

You've had Gjetost, because it was in that fondue I made with the apple cider and nutmeg.

Finally, are you sure you've never had snake?? I know that you were a mere SV at the time, but we definitely had it at Mulate's in New Orleans at SIGGRAPH 2000... Shannon still harps on that from time to time.

I'd say you're a pretty darned good omnivore! ;)

[gieves]

1. Hrm. Again, does it count if I didn't know/don't remember? Because I don't remember that one.

2. Again, that one I didn't remember.

3. You are, of course, completely right on this one and I'll correct myself.

4. From the original list, it seems like kaolin is being counted if you've ingested it intentionally and not as part of toothpaste, so I didn't count that one.

5. Really? Um... when was that?

6. Nope. Because I didn't go to Mulate's. You all went - and I heard about the snake - before I got to town.

[darlox]

1) I think it counts because I definitively remember feeding it to you. It's whether you've ingested it, not specifically whether you recall. ;)

2) Possibly not, since I really DON'T recall this one, other than remembering that I've had it, and that it was awful.

4) That'd be really weird. Unless you have Pika, what omnivore (or anything-vore) is going to purposely eat a chunk of alumino-silicate?? It wouldn't even really taste like anything, since it's just an inert clay. No purpose at all in food/medicine, except as a colorant and inert bulk additive.

5) Not too terribly long ago -- I'd wager it's the last time we had fondue. The ingredients were basically Gruyere, Gjetost, Woodchuck, nutmeg, a few spices, and a little flour.

6) Alas. I shall cook you snake -- we can buy frozen rattlesnake next time we're at Jungle Jim's. Unfortunately, the cost will not offset the experience, since it pretty much just tastes like chicken.