100 Foods to Try Before you Die

As most of you know, I have an obsession with all things food-related. This leads to me trawling foodie websites and blogs into the wee hours of the night, neglecting my husband while I read about Frenchmen making bacon ice-cream and where to find the best kimchi in Buffalo.

It was whilst visiting one such blog (probably while ignoring pressingly urgent work) that I came across the intriguingly named "100 Foods to Try Before You Die" list. This is the list of the 100 things that Very Good Taste thinks everyone should eat at least once in their life.

Here's what you do:
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.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

Here are my results -
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 (Gareth’s favourite!)
12. Pho (gee, tripe, no thanks!)
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 (mmmm, Italian gelato!)
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries (Dave’s dad brought us County wild strawberries once…)
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 (memories of Grampy…)
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Phaal
42. Curried Goat
43. Whole Insects
44. Goat’s milk (gross)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - yuck.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea Urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (for my sins!)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads (ah, the endocrine glands!)
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 (to my shame!)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini (thanks Mummy!)
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
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

I've done 68 which is pretty darn good considering my tender years! What about YOU all? How many do you have?