{"id":2832,"date":"2008-08-15T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/15\/you-are-what-you-eat-1\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T11:07:31","slug":"you-are-what-you-eat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/15\/you-are-what-you-eat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are What You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen this a bunch of places, but the most recent was Skwid’s LiveJournal<\/a>: below the fold is a big long list of foods (exotic and otherwise), with ones I’ve eaten marked in bold face<\/b>. The standard instructions call for striking out anything you won’t even consider eating, but I can imagine circumstances in which I might end up having to try any of these, even things I’m not likely to enjoy.<\/p>\n

The striking thing about this, to me, is not the gourmet stuff that I have eaten, so much as the non-gourmet things that I haven’t.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. Venison<\/b>
\n2. Nettle tea
\n3. Huevos rancheros (I don’t like eggs)
\n4. Steak tartare <\/b>
\n5. Crocodile
\n6. Black pudding
\n7. Cheese fondue <\/b>
\n8. Carp <\/b>
\n9. Borscht <\/b>
\n10. Baba ghanoush<\/b>
\n11. Calamari<\/b>
\n12. Pho <\/b>
\n13. PB&J sandwich<\/b> (I don’t really like peanut butter, but I have had it)
\n14. Aloo gobi <\/b>
\n15. Hot dog from a street cart <\/b> (It’s a must-have in NYC…)
\n16. Epoisses
\n17. Black truffle <\/b>
\n18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes <\/b>
\n19. Steamed pork buns<\/b> (Mmmmmm….)
\n20. Pistachio ice cream<\/b>
\n21. Heirloom tomatoes <\/b>
\n22. Fresh wild berries<\/b> (Every summer growing up)
\n23. Foie gras<\/b>
\n24. Rice and beans<\/b>
\n25. Brawn, or head cheese
\n26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
\n27. Dulce de leche<\/b>
\n28. Oysters<\/b> (Snot in a shell)
\n29. Baklava<\/b>
\n30. Bagna cauda
\n31. Wasabi peas<\/b>
\n32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl <\/b>
\n33. Salted lassi
\n34. Sauerkraut<\/b>
\n35. Root beer float<\/b>
\n36. Cognac with a fat cigar<\/b>
\n37. Clotted cream tea
\n38. Vodka jelly\/Jell-O<\/b> (I did go to college, you know…)
\n39. Gumbo<\/b>
\n40. Oxtail<\/b>
\n41. Curried goat<\/b>
\n42. Whole insects<\/b> (In chocolate)
\n43. Phaal<\/b>
\n44. Goat’s milk
\n45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth \u00c2\u00a360\/$120 or more
\n46. Fugu (No deadly neurotoxins for me, thankyewverymuch)
\n47. Chicken tikka masala <\/b>
\n48. Eel<\/b> (Several varieties)
\n49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut<\/b> (I don’t get the attraction. Too sickly sweet.)
\n50. Sea urchin<\/b> (Not my favorite)
\n51. Prickly pear<\/b>
\n52. Umeboshi<\/b>
\n53. Abalone
\n54. Paneer<\/b>
\n55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (Mayonnaise (excuse me, “special sauce”) on burgers is socialist)
\n56. Spaetzle <\/b>
\n57. Dirty gin martini
\n58. Beer above 8% ABV<\/b> (Mmmmm….. Beer…..)
\n59. Poutine (Definitely at Worldcon next year)
\n60. Carob chips<\/b>
\n61. S’mores <\/b>
\n62. Sweetbreads
\n63. Kaolin
\n64. Currywurst
\n65. Durian (Not in a real big hurry for this…)
\n66. Frogs’ legs<\/b>
\n67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake <\/b> (All four, actually)
\n68. Haggis<\/b>
\n69. Fried plantain<\/b>
\n70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
\n71. Gazpacho<\/b> (Like eating salad dressing)
\n72. Caviar and blini<\/b>
\n73. Louche absinthe (I’m not hip enough to drink wormwood)
\n74. Gjetost, or brunost
\n75. Roadkill (Not to the best of my knowledge)
\n76. Baijiu<\/b>
\n77. Hostess Fruit Pie
\n78. Snail<\/b>
\n79. Lapsang souchong <\/b>
\n80. Bellini
\n81. Tom yum<\/b>
\n82. Eggs Benedict
\n83. Pocky<\/b>
\n84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
\n85. Kobe beef<\/b>
\n86. Hare<\/b>
\n87. Goulash<\/b>
\n88. Flowers <\/b>
\n89. Horse<\/b> (Raw, even)
\n90. Criollo chocolate
\n91. Spam
\n92. Soft shell crab
\n93. Rose harissa
\n94. Catfish<\/b>
\n95. Mole poblano<\/b>
\n96. Bagel and lox <\/b>
\n97. Lobster Thermidor
\n98. Polenta<\/b>
\n99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (I didn’t like coffee even before my stomach problems.)
\n100. Snake<\/p>\n

I make that 64 out of 100, which isn’t too bad.<\/p>\n

This list is missing a number of obvious we-dare-you-to-eat-it foods, though. Where are natto, lutefisk, squirrel, “thousand-year-old eggs,” shark fin, retsina, and shochu? You could probably come up with another list of a hundred just as odd as these…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen this a bunch of places, but the most recent was Skwid’s LiveJournal: below the fold is a big long list of foods (exotic and otherwise), with ones I’ve eaten marked in bold face. The standard instructions call for striking out anything you won’t even consider eating, but I can imagine circumstances in which… Continue reading You Are What You Eat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}