Shopping List

A few weeks ago, Martin at Dum Luk's had a food meme going that fappears to have originated at Uncertain Principles.  It consists of a list of epicurian curiosities both pedestrian and exotic, and those he himself had experienced highlighted.  Here's how I come out, underscored below:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile  In a 5 star hotel in Harare.
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht My Aunt Betsy makes the best I've eaten.
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  I won a free meal I could not taste after eating one as a challenge at Torilla Sam's in Worcester, MA.
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 with a fat cigar (individually, yes)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects  mopani worms
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more:  'Sniff'  $70 scotch is my upper limit.
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 What chickory is to coffee...
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian Evil stuff, only eaten in this country as a gag.
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 Spit roasted guinnea fowl turned on a car jack crank
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
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse   No, but did narrowly avoid eating donkey bollocks...
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

60%  Several of these experiences I would not care to repeat.  Others I look forward to with great relish.  Pass the $120 single malt, please.

Other foods not only the list but which I can check off on my side of the ledger include Mozambique Langoustines, Biltong, Sadza, Sweet Potato Pie, Kudu, Warthog, Gemsbok, Sturgeon, and baked stuffed quahogs.  Feel free to pick this up and run with it.

Comments

[Tim Abbott]

Done deal. Turns out there will be a need in mid-winter to go for a Forest Legacy appropriation. Hope I can make a swing earlier but in any case, have the same Sox schedule fingerbiting going on that y'all do.

[Will]

We're all as well as can be expected with the combination of an upcoming election and the Sox September schedule.

Let me know when you find yourself needing to come down and petition the crown, and I'll overpay for a bottle of Balvenie Portwood so we can polish off #45.

[Tim Abbott]

Long overdue for an Arlington Oddysey, Will! Been shuffling the employment decks but still working as Director of Greenprint. Except when I go to put the moves on Congress, it is very local work. Hope you three are well. T

[Will]

My list, with comments: http://dingopariah.livejournal.com/627563.html

[Will]

You could fill in half the gaps on your list over a long weekend here in Arlington. Can't help you with the $120 single malt, my best bottle just breaks $75.