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serenejournal: a food meme.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea (good for pregnancy, along with red raspberry leaf)
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari (some bad calamari made me miss my Chem 1A final)
12. Pho (I love love love good pho!)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (easy to do here)
16. Epoisses (but I'd love to try it)
17. Black truffle (I love my truffle salt, but I'm certain it's white)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (If you live in Kansas City and have a chance to go to the Starkers Restaurant Heirloom Dinner, do it. Your view of "local food" will never be the same.)
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 (didn't love it)
34. Sauerkraut (not a fan)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I've had each, but not together)
37. Clotted cream tea (at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC, no less!)
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat (from my own goats)
42. Whole insects covered in chocolate (willing to try)
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk (from my own goats)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
~~46. Fugu~~
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (not sure what the hype is about)
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 (looking forward to trying it)
60. Carob chips (I was one of those kids whose mom thought carob was a good chocolate substitute)
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads (eh. I'm not big on the organ meats)
63. Kaolin (as part of Kaopectate)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (willing to try it someday, though)
66. Frogs' legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (all of these, and also fry bread)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
74. Gjetost, or brunost (don't like it)
75. Roadkill (hmm... only under the right circumstances)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky (about fifteen different varieties)
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (would love to, but probably not in this lifetime)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (I'm including rabbit)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse (not opposed to it, though)
90. Criollo chocolate (pretty sure I've had it as part of a blend, but not as a varietal)
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab (would love to try it)
93. Rose harissa (would love to try it)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (I'd love it, I'm sure)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

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.

Hm. Seems I'm a bit more adventurous that I thought. I think they should have included natto, though. Other interesting things I've tried include turducken, creme brulee, ostrich, and kangaroo.

I"m not sure I'd ever eat turtle, mountain oysters, whale/dolphin, monkey, or that poop coffee. What else do you think should have been on this list? What foods push your limits?

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they totally should have included natto. and octopus or squid, and eel. oh wait calamari is there. but octopus, non-breaded. that was interesting.

i can't ever do poop coffee. or whale. or turtle. or mountain oysters.

What's missing is soylent green.

You know what I think might be interesting? A meme to figure out those limits. Maybe a list like this:

Water
Air
Algae
Yeast
Grass
Cucumber
Apple
Portabello
Plankton
Tuna
Shark
Chicken
Blue Jay
Garter Snake
Rat
Goat
Cow
Dolphin
Pig
Tabby Cat
Husky Dog
Lemur
Gorilla
Chimpanzee
Republican
Human

Where do you draw your line? What, if anything, is too close to home?

Very interesting list, but I'd certainly reorder it differently... I think the dolphin would be up near the primates, for instance.

Cool idea!

I suppose that's a good point. I tried to order it by evolutionary distance, but that's not how everyone sees it. OK, part of the meme is also to reorder the list how you see fit!

Yeah, this isn't gonna catch on. XD

What does natto taste like? Where does one get it? There is anecdotal evidence that women who consume various soy products have an easier time with hot flashes, but natto specifically seems to be the only one that helps with bone density. (according to the studies I found when I was researching this, anyway).

You can get nattokinase enzyme at a place like Whole Foods. A really good Japanese restaurant might have it, or know where to get it. I've only had it twice... it's a NASTY texture but the flavor's not bad.

It's not nasty, it's just different. Mmm, natto. ^-^

Friend of mine had this email signature during the months he was working in Japan: Eat natto for breakfast. It will guarantee that nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_fe_st/as_indonesia_civet_coffee

Oh darn.

I would happily eat turtle, mountain oysters or kopi luwak (which I've always wanted to try) -- no primates or cetaceans, though.

One of my major lines is drawn at live insects, though I can imagine only a very limited set of circumstances under which I'd try dead ones. And spiders, just, no (though I'm happy to eat crab -- go figure).

Have you seen http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html ? Or http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687163 ?

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