The Omnivore's 100

Blogger friend Kuri posted this list on his site of 100 things to eat before you die. What kind of a food blog are we if we don't answer the call!

Readers and contributors, feel free to do your own version and post your results here as well as there. :)

The Omnivore's 100

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 verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

OakMonster's additional - I'm going to Italicize what I haven't eaten yet but REALLY want to someday! Also, the VGT version links some of the lesser known items to Wikipedia for your convenience. Not here. You get to do your own culinary research and learn something new! :)

69 out of 100 over here!

1. Venison (Home made, kill-our-own dear sausage at my friend's family's home in Texas. Staring out the window at some of the dear while I ate that. A little screwed up.)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (I haven't had the "blood sausage" version, but I have eaten "steamed blood". Actually, I love that stuff.)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
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 (Well, mead is made out of honey...?)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
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
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/Jell-O (I was the jello shot queen during my college years. Making them to carry into the Coliseum in the cooler that carried food to feed song girls and yell leaders. LOL.)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (Apparently, I did when I was a kid. Fried locust, something like that.)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (It was in a tea...)
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 (I could eat this in high school and it went nowhere. Not in my hips or my but...)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (Dirty vodka martini is my favorite however.)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine (I MUST get to Quebec!!)
60. Carob chips (Gross...but I ate it.)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst (Saw this on Anthony Bourdain's Germany episode. I was drooling everywhere.)
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 (Thanks to Dave and Nik!)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu (Believe it or not, parents had this in the liquor shelf. So we tried it as a kid. One sip and we almost died. LOL. It tasted like jet fuel then, probably still is now.)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (Brandon craves this once a year. One bite is enough for me.)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (Some day I will be able to afford this...)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa (Had regular harissa, but that's a completely different thing.)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (Not recently, but in one way or the other, I had this in Thailand.)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Yakult Cult

Asian expats of America rejoice! Our beloved yogurt drink Yakult is now available in the more convenient local grocery stores. No more cross-town trek to the Asian market for these delicious, probiotics babies!

Since I have developed little stomach issues these past few years, I have been searching to get Yakult back into my life. Unfortunately, American stores only carry drinking yogurt...that don't seem to do anything for me. Then the probiotics trend arrives and comes the eat-with-a-spoon yogurt. Still not the same.

And one day, a commercial for Yakult came on. I scared Brandon silly when I squealed at the TV. Brandon has also come to know the power of Yakult as my mom fed him 2 of those daily while we were in Thailand and he came home more or less without much incident. ("He's a big guy. He HAS to drink two!)

Before the probiotics hype hits America, Asia has enjoyed the benefits of Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota in Yakult for over 70 years.

In Thailand, Yakult is always linked to the image of pretty ladies on a bicycle with the cooler of Yakult in the back, delivering fresh bottles to your house everyday. "Sao Yakult" or Yakult girl in uniform, much like the American image of a milkman, was a part of the morning scenes all over the country, almost as iconic as the monks out for food alms. As time changes, the bicycles are replaced by motorcycles and sometimes it's the delivery man instead of the girl.

My mom had not gone many days in her life. We always have Yakult delivered and we all were to drink one before we got to school. At some point, it was just mom and dad as I wanted to buy them at school with my friends at recess. Unlike Red Bull, there isn't a limit written anywhere as to how many bottles of these you can drink a day, but most people stick with one or two. Since Yakult helps with digestive system, the common mis/conception is that too many of these and you'll be clinging to the johns. Nobody would want to take that risk.

Yakult is sweet and a little tangy with the consistency of milk. Not the thick and glug-y of the drinking yogurt or the thick AND super tart Kefir. But the best part of this 2.7 fl. oz. bottle is that you can grab one, shoot it and leave without missing a step. It's perfect in everyway, this little thing.

Cheers to Yakult! Here's to good health, everyone!