The Edible (and Inedible) Meme

[altivo]

Snitched from captpackrat:


Bold what you've tried, Italicize what you'll never eat again, Strikeout what you won't eat, Asterisk for you haven't had a chance, question mark what you don't know.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (Alligator)
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
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 ? (Obviously Thai, but no idea what's in it)
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

Comments

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Phở is Vietnamese soup, and delicious. (It's usually got meat in it, but it can also be made vegetarian, if that's your thing.)

Fugu is poisonous Japanese blowfish, and incredibly dangerous if it isn't prepared properly.

Poutine is French fries with cheese curds, and will give you an instant heart attack.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I can take a pass on all those, I think. I was aware of the pufferfish or blowfish thing, but didn't know the name. I can cross that one right out.

I've run across the word poutine before but never looked it up to see what it is. I could be tempted to eat that, probably, but you're right that I shouldn't (or at least, no more than a single taste.)

In general I think I shouldn't eat things I can't spell, so many of the other strangenesses can stay strange.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

As many times as Rex has mentioned the stuff you didn't recognize that one? Geesh...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Which stuff? I don't recall Rex mentioning any of this stuff.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Poutine. He's mentioned it a ton on the show...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Guess I must not pay attention as much as I thought. Kinda figures, though. *shakes head*

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

Aw, why is everyone against poutine? It's delicious.

Then again, it'll automatically kill anyone who's not Canadian, so maybe you'd best not.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm 3/8 Canadian, but no one should eat that much fat and cholesterol at once. ;p

[nekura-ca.livejournal.com]

I know some of the unknowns:

Pho is a Vietnamese soup, thin strips of meat are put into a hot broth with noodles to cook, very good, but the broth has lots of MSG, so you just eat the meat and noodles.

Fugu is blowfish sushi, most of the fish is poisonous, so it has to be prepared very carefully.

Poutine is french fries with cheese curds, smothered in gravy, also very good, but very unhealthy.

I don't know what the rest are.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

:P

[nekura-ca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a slow typer.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm overly sensitive to MSG, and usually avoid Asian restaurants for that reason, so I can skip the soup.

Pufferfish as sushi I knew about, just not the name. That's a cross-out.

Poutine would tempt me to at least taste.

I'm just lazy. I'm sure I could find most of this bizarre sounding stuff on Google or Wikipedia.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I don't EVEN want to hear the story from whoever bolds 75...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I remember a cookbook that purported to give recipes for it. I was never sure whether it was intended as a joke.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

I guess the only roadkill that would be at least somewhat useful would be something moose-sized...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh I dunno. Depends on how fresh it is and how hungry you are.

Or perhaps you are after fur or bones? Years ago, when I was in high school, we had a biology project that involved making scientific mounts of small animals. My mother actually stopped her car on her way to work to pick up a fresh squirrel for me. It was in perfect condition, evidently just got a broken neck from the impact of whatever hit it.

She felt very self-conscious about picking up a piece of roadkill and putting it into her car while other drivers were zooming by and staring at her.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

All the fun things they come up for the young students to tinker with? Or parents. =)

But yeah, I guess fledgling taxidermists are always eager to check the side of the road for new material. I'd rather keep a respectable distance to that myself. And I'd definitely skip the squirrel tartar. ^^;

Can't really say if it can be classified as a roadkill, if moose gets in contact of a high-speed car... and it might be something more than an animal that gets killed in that.

With the moose-involved incidents I think the police is always managing things here afterwards, and if they can sell the meat, more money to the state. Though on the other hand, state compensates the losses of the same accidents on certain areas... giveth, taketh. =)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Note comment from vakkotaur below. In much of the US, drivers who experience a collision with a deer are allowed to take the deer if they wish. In general I think the theory is that hitting a deer is dangerous enough and does enough damage to the vehicle (if not the occupants) that no one would try to do it deliberately just to get the venison. I've had a number of near misses with whitetails around here but have no desire to actually make contact. During the rutting season last year one buck bounded alongside my car for a quarter mile or so. I'm not sure whether he was trying to woo me or challenge me, but probably it was the latter.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I suspect for most who would claim it, it would be venison. When my car-deer collision (some years ago) was reported one question asked was, "Do you want the meat?" since the collision killed the deer (it didn't do the Ford much good either). I was little more concerned about other things just then, so responded in the negative.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

What is a Mole poblano and Huevos Rancheros?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Mole is a sauce in some styles of Mexican cooking, in this case made with poblanos, a pepper variety. Those are relatively mild peppers, and it's not bad stuff.

Huevos rancheros are eggs cooked Tex-Mex style with hot sauce and served with refried beans and tortillas. In general, I like Mexican style food, though I'll skip the goat. Lots of vegetarian dishes, or nearly vegetarian, lots of color and flavor, lots of fresh veggies. Yum-nom-nom.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Hmmm the description of Huevos rancheros has already given me heartburn :)

As to the Fugu I've had that, as far as eating sushi goes i'd prefer tuna or salmon. However the perfect way to serve fugu is so there's just enough poison in the served portion to numb the tongue. The traditional way of a restaurant showing that they serve fugu is the hanging of an inflated skin of a puffer fish outside the front door lit from with in by a lamp. Rather macabre really but a lot are artificial these days.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've seen those inflated skins. Ugly things.

So they give the diner a numb tongue to keep them from realizing that it tastes just as bad as it looks, eh? There are certainly some things about Japanese culture that are just plain absurd. Sort of like beating yourself over the head with a cricket bat just so you can enjoy how much better it feels when you stop, eh?

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Well it falls under all those absurdities people call "delicacies".

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Most of which seem to be like the emperor's new clothes. All about image and prestige, not really about quality or substance. People go for such things because they can, and to prove that they have the money to waste.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

It was like these very beautifully packaged and displayed biscuity things that had gold in them we were given from friends in Japan. They were almost too nice to eat, plus the gold was pointless but it did make them look beautiful. I could appreciate those because of the skill and care that went into making them. But it did seem a bit odd to put gold in something you'd eat.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

They do that in India too. Delicacies are coated in either gold or silver leaf. I've had silver once. It's so thin you don't detect anything in the taste, but it looks impressive. It's supposed to show honor to the guest or something like that.

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

Silver, too? I knew gold was biologically inert, but I wasn't sure about silver.
Hm, what about copper?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've not heard of copper being used. We can taste copper though, so probably not. Silver is reactive, but presumably that small amount doesn't make anything toxic when exposed to digestive enzymes and acids.