Food Like That: Recipes your mouth will like

I saw this on Travis' blog, and since I can't resist lists involving food, here is my "Omnivore's Hundred" list of foods that I've eaten (originally from Very Good Taste). I actually seem to recall filling out a shorter list before, but I can't find it at the moment. Update: it's another BBC list -- 50 things to eat before you die, which I had already filled out on Lists of Bests here.

Legend: bold is eaten, crossed out is "would never eat". I haven't asterisk'd ones I'd like to try -- basically, I'd like to try anything that I haven't before. Hint: there are no crossed out items. Not even roadkill, although eating something that I *knew* to be actually bad / rotten is probably a line I wouldn't cross.

1. Venison - the best meat that I've ever eaten. At the Inn on the Twenty in the Niagara region of Ontario
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile - I've had alligator, but not crocodile
6. Black pudding - I've been eating blood sausage since I was a little kid in our German Canadian home ... black pudding is really not that much of a stretch
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush - delicious! had it all the time at some of the great shwarma places in Ottawa
11. Calamari - squid and octopus are some of my favourite seafood
12. Pho - all the time, I first really got into it in the winter time in Ottawa
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 - usually from The Boss in Vancouver's Chinatown
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries - blackberries, salmon berries, huckle berries, and wild strawberries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese - so many people are actively afraid of this. I've probably eaten more Sulze aka cubed pork snouts in spiced gelatin. This really is good.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - most memorable are some I bought fresh from Fanny Bay, drove back to the restaurant I was working at on Bowen Island, and chef then prepared a horseradish lemon cream sauce to go with it
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl - at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, of course!
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 - remind me to tell you the story of melting a plastic spoon in a gumbo I was making
40. Oxtail - Knorr's dried Oxtail Soup is still one of my favourite packaged soups. Have it with toasted German rye bread croutons.
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 - smoked (German / European style) as well as in lots of Japanese sushi
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - at one of the first in Canada, out in Ontario
50. Sea urchin - in sushi
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer - at Vij's restaurant in Vancouver for the first time
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - yes, but a long time ago. I'm 10 years McDonald's free in 2 weeks
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine - most memorable would be one summer in a college bar Pointe Claire, Quebec
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst - a Berlin specialty
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. - so close: I've had the tasting menu at a *2* Michelin-star restaurant (Bruno's in Brussels - thanks, Ivan!)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - spider roll! I've never had it other than Japanese style
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Want to complete this yourself? Here are the instructions:

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.