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TOP 50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD TRY A BITE OF IN THEIR LIFETIME
Bold the ones you've eaten. Italicize the ones you dislike.


01. Alligator
02. American diner breakfast
03. Australian meat pie - which sounds so good. I love things with "meat" and "pie" and maybe a little bit of egg buried like a treasure.
04. Barbecue
05. Barramundi - someone tell me what this is?
06. Burgers
07. Caviar
08. Cheesecake
09. Chinese food
10. Chocolate
11. Clam chowder
12. Cornish Pasty - mmm, pasty. Is it really pasty?
13. Crab
14. Cream tea
15. Curry
16. Durian fruit - this can't be real. This sounds like STAR TREK food. "Captain, I made your favorite! Leola root puree with durian fruit and topped with whipped isiscolo!"
17. Fresh fish
18. Greek food
19. Guinea pig - I did NOT know they were for eating. It makes sense, though. I mean, what else are they for?
20. Haggis
21. Ice cream
22. Jerk chicken/pork - three things I don't like! in alphabetical order!
23. Kangaroo
24. Kebab
25. Lamb
26. Lobster
27. Mango
28. Mexican food
29. Moreton Bay Bugs - honestly, I can't remember. I think these are crawfish and if they are, I et 'em! If they ain't, I ain't. Oh, god, no. This thing is scary-ass. Vvvah. But, I bet, tastes like alligator. Or snake! Mmm.
30. Mussels
31. Octopus
32. Oysters
33. Paella
34. Pancakes
35. Pasta
36. Pizza
37. Prawns
38. Reindeer - but I feel like I'd LOVE it. I like gamey food.
39. Ribs
40. Roast beef
41. Salmon - allergic!
42. Sandwiches
43. Scallops
44. Shark
45. Squid
46. Steak
47. Sushi
48. Tapas
49. Thai food
50. Venison - so how does reindeer taste in comparison to venison? "tastes like reindeer."

Comments

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Barramundi is... a big, predatory fish. Thing. Ish. I've never had it, but I saw it in Sydney.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd eat that. I like big steak fish. Like shark or maki maki.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

no Rocky Mountain Oysters? :runs away: Buckhorn Exchange, Denver. ask themonkeycabal what they are if you don't quite know, 'cuz by then I'll be farther away ;)

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

Did I ever tell you the story about how one time a friend was cooking them on a dare and they 'sploded. *snerk*

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

sorlklewis explained 'em to me. YICK. But then, I'll try anything once. *g*

Of course, this makes the exploding anecdote that much ickier. EW.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

I had barramundi just last weekend! Tasty.

Meat pies can be good (I have no idea how they differ between here and elsewhere), but most of them are pretty foul. They used to have them at school, and the mince would be this really bright brown, and it would drip out everywhere, and... gross. Never could bring myself to eat one, although I'll quite happily munch away on the offally goodness of a sausage roll. However, pies with chunkier meat (and not from the el cheapo companies) are good. Don't generally have egg in them, though.

I never even knew that most places in the US didn't sell pasties until I read American Gods.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I've had AMERICAN meat pies, or, rather things called "meat pie" or "pot pie" over here, contaning various and sundry meats and maybe an egg. In a pie crust.

And tell me of these pasties of which you speak.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

We have pasties in Michigan, they're like the lunchtime lovechild of a pot pie and a sandwich. There's a dough pocket with chunks of steak, potato, carrot, onion and (if you get the more traditional kind) rutabega. They're baked, and then you can eat them cold, warm them over, smother them in gravy. The meat is very tender, and even the dough takes on a meaty flavour.

Now I know what we're eating this week, heh.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Like a knish! Like a knish? Knishes usually come in kasha or potato, but you can get anything in a knish these days.

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

Knishes sound more like pierogi--the dough on a pasty is more like a tough pie dough, and a pasty is larger.

Of course, this afternoon we bought our pasties at the pierogi shop--but they really are different things.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

I think American Gods said that Michigan was pretty much the only place in the US where you can get them.

If I ever have to move to the US, I know which part of the country I'll be aiming for. ;) Although....

and then you can eat them cold

Now I'm not so sure. ;) (Says the person who went through a 'eat crumpets straight from the fridge' phase as a child. *g*) Also, gravy? Hmm. Never tried that -- Australia is strictly a pasties-and-tomato-sauce kind of place. May have to try one with gravy, one day.

On a different note, I've always wondered -- what is rutabega?

[rubberneck.livejournal.com]

Rutabega is a root vegetable, pretty close to a turnip.

Tomato sauce, eh? O_o

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

This is Australia! Everything is served with tomato sauce. Even the ice cream. *g*

[notpoetry.livejournal.com]

oh god, yeah, there's this place in Traverse City where I'd go for lunch every time I could make it into town, and they served pasties from heaven and i was so desperately said when I got to New York and found pasties impossible to track down.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

What feldman said, more or less, although most pasties here have so little meat (and it's so unrecognisable as meat) that you could probably feed them to a unknowing vegetarian without them even realising that it contains meat. Not that I would do such a thing, of course. ;)

Meat pies here are single-serve, usually round or square, made with the same kind of pastry as pasties. The most common are simply full of scary mincemeat and gravy, although you can get them in chicken, beef chunks, and various other meat/vegetable combinations.

The common thread between regular meat pies and pasties is that they're generally served drowned in tomato sauce. ;) And they're the main lunch things sold at school canteens (along with sausage rolls), so many an Australian child has been more or less raised on a diet of their greasy goodness. So healthy! *eyeroll*

To be honest, I'm just disappointed that they didn't include the pie floater (http://thegreenman.net.au/mt/archives/000536.html) on the list. It's a local delicacy! Which only pissheads and foolish tourists lulled into a false sense of security will eat.

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is an INTERESTING meme! I think I'll steal.

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

you don't like ice cream? i'm not entirely sure what to do with that thought.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

The kid pointed out that I ate a bowl of mint chocolate chip just last night, so I guess I don't HATE ice cream. But I don't seek it out, I never buy it, and I avoid things with ice cream in them, like shakes. You know, when you get pie and ice cream, I'm always, "Hold the ice cream!"

[sevenall.livejournal.com]

Reindeer compared to venison? Oh SO much better.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I like venison, because it's just sort of purple and has that gamey taste that I like. It's tough, but I like tough. I don't know how I'd feel about a venison BURGER? On the other hand, a reindeer burger, I feel I'd eat. I've had moose! Mooseburger!

[yarngeek.livejournal.com]

Venison burgers, when prepared with sufficient fat (I used el cheapo butter), are better than beef burgers, certainly. I don't know about reindeer, though.

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

I believe, though I am not positive, that my Mum has had Durian fruit. She spent part of her childhood in Penang, near Singapore, and Durian fruit comes from South East Asia, so I read. It's not the kind of thing that grows in orchards here in the UK!

I think it's supposed to be horribly, horribly stinky. But to taste quite ok!

[boxmint.livejournal.com]

Where'd you eat alligator? Did you wrestle it first? Apparently ostrich and reindeer are now things that can be gotten from any upscale butcher--which stuns me. Oranges at christmastime are impressive enough.