Monday 25 August 2008

Copykitten, or the VGT Omnivore 100

Copykitten: I'm not sophisticated enough to be a cat. Meeew.

Brought to you from blogs everywhere:

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:
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 (this should not be a filling)
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 (yummy yummy yummy)
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 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 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 (I would say paw paw, you'd say papaya)
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
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 (smoked salmon, please)
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

NB, don't know how to cross out, italics means NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!

Now, I may have an uneducated palate, or maybe I just need to travel the world a bit more, but these are the ones I hadn't heard of (marked above in purple). Google time:

3. Huevos rancheros - eggs with spicy peppers and what not, for breakfast.
10. Baba ghanoush - eggplant dip. That's aubergine I believe?
12. Pho - Vietnamese noodle soup.
16. Epoisses - a cheese from the Bourgoyne
19. Steamed pork buns - a doughy chinese style bun, filled with char sui and sweet beans.
21. Heirloom tomatoes - a heritage tomato apparently. Right then.
25. Brawn, or head cheese - Potted head, the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - a type of chilli pepper
30. Bagna cauda - an italian dip, not a legal document.
33. Salted lassi - yoghurt drink. With salt?????
43. Phaal - a mightily hot curry.
46. Fugu - it's puffafish.
52. Umeboshi - a japanese fruit
53. Abalone - sea snails.
56. Spaetzle - Germany's answer to pasta
59. Poutine - chips with cheese and gravy, a la francais
61. S’mores - marshmallows and chocolates between crackers. Right then.
63. Kaolin - anti diarrheoa medicine. Right then.
64. Currywurst - a curry flavoured German sausage. Sounds dirty to me.
65. Durian - A mighty weird looking fruit.
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - Pig Intestines. Say no more.
74. Gjetost, or brunost - Norwegian cheese
76. Baijiu - a distilled liquor that sounds like strong vodka. Hmm.
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - some type of apple pie.
81. Tom yum - Thai soup
83. Pocky - Japan's answer to Kit Kat
93. Rose harissa - chilli sauce with rose petals in. Ok.
95. Mole poblano - chilli sauce

I tried to find out what a VGT omnivore was, and found everyone else's blog on it. VGT stands for a lot of things, mostly anti animal factories people in Austria, but having re-read the instructions I was hit by the blinding realisation that it stands for... Very Good Taste, as in www.verygoodtaste.co.uk Duh.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've had alligator which is nearly crocodile. I've also had whole insects. And you don't know how good PB&J is until you try it. Trust me.

Also, s'mores are amazing as is Pho.