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[sab]

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

[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.