Food meme!

[viedma]

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.

Basically, consider anything meat or diary on this list to be crossed out. When I went on vacation back in June I was craving pizza and ice cream. After ten days and a lot of discomfort and skin-explodey, I've come to the realization that diary, I no can has. Which bums me out not as much as I thought it would.

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-- Thank you, mshcherbatskaya! Roxann introduced me to pho and turned me into an addict. Now I make the veggie kind and call it no pho.
13. PB&J sandwich-- It's my afternoon snack that keeps me from killin' co-workers.
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes-- Blackberry wine is quite tasty.
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes-- Just about the season for them, too. I got to have slices of one with my tempeh "bacon" and hummus sammich yesterday. I've missed it so much.
22. Fresh wild berries-- That's pretty much what violetisblue and live on the whole month of July, until we go critical mass on the ascorbic acid and have to cut back.
23. Foie gras-- Most people who like foie gras are really condescending. "Once you try it, you'll understand." (*pat pat*) So Vali and I ordered this at a dinner once. It tasted like the fat cut off a piece of steak. I've tried it, and I still don't understand.
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-- NOM NOM NOM
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
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
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-- After all these questions about summer foods, I'm imagining some poor bastard who's never eaten a s'more or funnel cake in their entire lives, and now I want to comfort them.
68. Haggis-- Please don't ask me to eat it again.
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho-- It'll be gazpacho season in this house soon, mmmm.
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost-- EDIT: Many thanks to bossymarmalade for joggin' the ol' memory
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky-- Green tea pocky is my favorite.
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare-- Sorry Fiver.
87. Goulash
88. Flowers-- This morning, as a matter of fact, a phlox petal on my grape tomato.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam-- I used to love going to my grandparent's house, as they always had the good stuff: spam, potted meat, Velveeta, vienna sausages, not that old boring home-cooked meal stuff. Food that had been that processed was novel to me when I was young.
92. Soft shell crab-- One of the very first lunch dates I ever had with violetisblue was at Bertha's restaurant in Fells Point, Maryland. (Eat Bertha's Mussels) I ordered the soft shell crab as I'd never eaten it before, and it seemed a novel thing to do to eat an entire animal between 2 slices of bread. As I bit into it, a bit of orangey-chunky stuff came out of the crab and onto the plate. "Must be the mustard they cooked it in," I said to Vali. Vali, who hadn't known me long enough (and was too polite) to laugh really hard at me, thought, and told me later, "That's not mustard!" Even now, "That's not mustard!" is one of those couple shorthand things we say to each other.
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Day-am, I've eaten a lot of meat. Now I don't have to eat it again. Huzzah!

Comments

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Half the things on that list are Star Wars aliens.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Eaten by Jabba the Hutt. (*nods*)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hey, didn't you try gjetost that time when we had the smorgasbord breakfast at Rachel's? That browned-butter tasting cheese!!

I forgot about gjetost!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I've tried just about everything in the world that's passed before my nose at one point, lol! And I used to like it, too. It's just that I really can't eat that way anymore. I was never all that lactose tolerant to start with, and the less dairy I've eaten over the last couple of years means I have even less tolerance for it.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Hey, I bought a bunch of sumac and za'atar today, if you guys want some, e-mail me your snail addy (...and the non-LJ name of one or both...): dshilling@verizon.net.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

That would be swell, thanks! That way we can try before we buy some. Do you need any money for shipping?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Naaah, we're not talking felony weight here, we're talking about an ounce apiece.

...as the shark said to the shipwrecked lawyer, "Professional courtesy!"

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

So, even the meat/dairy stuff you bolded is actually crossed out?

Now, what the hell is paneer meant to be? I mean, that just means "cheese" in Farsi. My head is doing that same thing it does when people order "chai tea" and I go crazy!ethnic!lady and screech CHAI IS TEA. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

[viedma.livejournal.com]

So, even the meat/dairy stuff you bolded is actually crossed out?

It's sort of like asking people about who you dated when you were 19-- yes, I liked them then, *now* is a completely separate matter. :)


CHAI IS TEA. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

Oh thank god I'm not the only one who does this.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

chai is tea. What are you saying?

Especially if they're at the La Brea Tar Pits at the time.

I do have some very high-toned Indian cookbooks that identify panir as a specific item in the range of dairy foods--not just any cheese, but the cheese you get by starting with simple milk curds and draining and pressing them.