Meme time
1. Copy this list into your LJ, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you've eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4. Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.
5. Put a single asterisk next to things you really want to try.
6. Put a double asterisk next to things you really like.
It's all behind here
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare**
5. Crocodile *
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue** - I am in Switzerland after all
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho - Just tried this the other day actually, surrogate father's wife is Vietnamese
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Époisses - quite expensive cheese
17. Black truffle**
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - my favourite ice cream flavour
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie Gras** - though I am against force feeding the poor animals, it's sooo good though (to be had in moderation for respect of geese)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters** - now these I can eat like a pig
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/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal - I won't be doing that again any time soon
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more - I have friends with taste and a hell of a lot more money than me
46. Fugu- My name is not Homer Simpson
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - Pickled, awful stuff
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin** - One of the nicest things that come out of the sea, even if it is made up by 90% sexual organs
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi*
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal - I too was a teenager once!
56. Spaetzle - A swiss national dish, and considering I am here....
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine** - This is quebec's national dish and as my best friend comes from there, of course I have tried it - basically it's chips, cheese and gravy, a bit like the manx dish!
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (in Kaopectate)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian *
66. Frogs' legs**
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis**
69.Durian
70. 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 - that was a long time ago
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash - I make my own
88. Flowers - I was a child once
89. Horse**
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft-shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox with red onion and capers
97. Lobster thermidor** - as you can tell, I love all things from the sea
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake rattler
and a few of my own that I've tried:
101. Ostritch**
102. Bull's balls
103. Cow's brains - on toast, you should try it, seriously, not as nasty as it sounds and very nutricious
104. Aloe Vera - nasty stuff
105. Raw fish - I am great sushi and sashimi fan (tuna, salmon, seabream, scallop and others I cannot think of right now)
106. Swordfish - I caught this one myself, this is a fiesty fish
107. Lots of perch that I catch myself each summer in that big lake I live next to (Geneva lake)
108. Boletus and chanterelle mushrooms which I find myself in the forest around here - mushroom season is at the moment, did you know?
2. Bold all the items you've eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4. Make recommendations of specific places/products when possible.
5. Put a single asterisk next to things you really want to try.
6. Put a double asterisk next to things you really like.
It's all behind here
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare**
5. Crocodile *
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue** - I am in Switzerland after all
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho - Just tried this the other day actually, surrogate father's wife is Vietnamese
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Époisses - quite expensive cheese
17. Black truffle**
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - my favourite ice cream flavour
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie Gras** - though I am against force feeding the poor animals, it's sooo good though (to be had in moderation for respect of geese)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters** - now these I can eat like a pig
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/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal - I won't be doing that again any time soon
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more - I have friends with taste and a hell of a lot more money than me
46. Fugu- My name is not Homer Simpson
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - Pickled, awful stuff
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin** - One of the nicest things that come out of the sea, even if it is made up by 90% sexual organs
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi*
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal - I too was a teenager once!
56. Spaetzle - A swiss national dish, and considering I am here....
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine** - This is quebec's national dish and as my best friend comes from there, of course I have tried it - basically it's chips, cheese and gravy, a bit like the manx dish!
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (in Kaopectate)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian *
66. Frogs' legs**
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis**
69.Durian
70. 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 - that was a long time ago
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash - I make my own
88. Flowers - I was a child once
89. Horse**
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft-shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish*
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox with red onion and capers
97. Lobster thermidor** - as you can tell, I love all things from the sea
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake rattler
and a few of my own that I've tried:
101. Ostritch**
102. Bull's balls
103. Cow's brains - on toast, you should try it, seriously, not as nasty as it sounds and very nutricious
104. Aloe Vera - nasty stuff
105. Raw fish - I am great sushi and sashimi fan (tuna, salmon, seabream, scallop and others I cannot think of right now)
106. Swordfish - I caught this one myself, this is a fiesty fish
107. Lots of perch that I catch myself each summer in that big lake I live next to (Geneva lake)
108. Boletus and chanterelle mushrooms which I find myself in the forest around here - mushroom season is at the moment, did you know?