Food, glorious food!!

Alright. I'm wasting my day off doing this silly Internet meme (found via my sister-in-law's blog):

"The Omnivore's 100" (my answers are below)

I spent about 8 years as a vegetarian until one day, out of the blue, I decided to order prime rib while out to dinner with my now-huband and my mother. Needless to say, their eyes got huge and they watched in wonder as I devoured the whole, bloody thing. I didn't get sick at all and I haven't looked back since.

In Japan, James and I would often find ourselves sitting at the bar of a restaurant as the chef put something strange and gooey down in front of us with a chuckle of "Challengy." For the most part, I'm up to the challenge. Only a few times did I have to whisper the code to James that meant "You have to take this off my plate right now or I'm going to vomit on these nice people's table and shame us."

So I guess that makes me an omnivore.

[This items I've eaten are in bold. Those I'm not sure of are in italics. You're supposed to cross-out the things you'd never even try, but I'd like to believe I'd try anything once...Not sure what something is? This is a perfect example of when Wikipedia helps!]

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp--not sure if I've had carp, but I feel like I've eaten just about every possible kind of fish. If it's available in Japan, I've had it.
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush--I prefer hummous.
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle--I'm about 98% sure I've had black truffle, but I'm being very strict with my bolding. Only things I know for sure...
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 --Pretty sure I've tried some head cheese on a smorgasbord
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda -- sound delicious though!
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--I've eaten goat. Not curried, though.
42. Whole insects--Ate something in Japan that looked like a centipede on a stick, but there was some argument as to what it really was.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more--At a wedding in Scotland we had some pretty amazing whiskey, but I didn't ask the price.
46. Fugu--Sorry to say, we never did go for Fugu in Japan...
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi--YUM!!!!
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle --I feel I must have had this kind of egg noodle dish at some point in my life, but can't say for sure.
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV--Probably, but I'd have to ask Philip for sure. It seems that at least one of the fancy beers he's given James and me must have been above 8%
59. Poutine--Okay, this one sounds pretty gross. But it's probably delicious.
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads--This is another that sounds a little too nasty for me. I will (and have!) eat any part of a fish. But there are certain parts of mammals that sound a bit too gag-inducing. If I had to, I could probably do it though.
63. Kaolin--why?? who does this?? where??
64. Currywurst--Maybe I have, in Germany or Switzerland, though I was mostly vegetarian when I was there...
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis -- at a wedding in Scotland they served me "vegetarian haggis." It was oats shaped to look like everyone else's boiled intestines. Yum.
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette -- Probably, in Korea, without knowing it. But I can't be sure.
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu -- No, but I have had shochu and soju.
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--I've even had raw horse! I've heard rumors that there are secret restaurants in Japan where one can pay thousands of dollars to eat an American derby winner.
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa -- sounds yummy.
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor -- my mother and mother-in-law think I'm crazy, but I don't really like lobster. Give me just about any other food from the sea first...
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake