How much of an omnivore are you?

This is an interesting list, compiled by the folks at VeryGoodTaste.co.uk. How many things on the list have you eaten? My score is 49, which is not too bad considering how picky I am about meat. And only 24 things I wouldn’t consider eating!

The VeryGoodTaste Omnivore’s Hundred:

  • Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
  • Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
  • Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
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 de Bourgogne
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 Soudough 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
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whiskey from a bottle worth $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 (I have had Kaopectate, does that count?)
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 (Gjetost is one of my favorite cheeses!)
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu (nasty stuff)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang Souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom Yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. 3-Michelin-Star Tasting Menu
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (and hated it)
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

8 Comments

  2. Ok, I eat everything and have eaten just about everything as my number is 74. I think the only think on that list that I wouldn’t at least try once(although the fact that I dont’ know what most of these things are helps) would be horse.

  3. You’ve never had eggs benedict? That’s like my favorite breakfast food. It’s covered in hollandaise for goodness sakes. Yummy goodness.

  5. I’m with you on most of the things you won’t eat, but what offends you about gazpacho? Too much like fish jello? (Seriously, horseradish and lime jello??) I’ve had it and thought it was fine; perhaps it was a gringo version without some authentic ingredient?

  6. Did you not eat any of the haggis that I brought over for (I think) Halloween a million years ago? I thought I had shamed everyone into at least trying a cracker’s worth.

    I don’t blame you for not eating the Meatster Egg though…

  8. Oh hell no, I did not go near the haggis! I was, however, impressed by the number of people that you got to taste it. I’m game for trying new things of the plant kingdom, but I’m unapologetically picky when it comes to things that used to possess one or more of the five senses.

    And OMG, that link? To the 100 Most Disgusting Ice Cream Flavors? Wowzers. Funny how almost all of the ice cream varieties are Japanese.

    Silvershoes, I would love gazpacho were it not for the cucumbers. Cukes are evil.

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