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"100 Foods to Try Before You Die"

An interesting list, but literally all over the map. I wonder how they came up with it.

1. Venison – y
2. Nettle tea -y
3. Huevos rancheros – y
4. Steak tartare -y
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding -y
7. Cheese fondue -y
8. Carp -y
9. Borscht -y
10. Baba ghanoush – y
11. Calamari – y
12. Pho -y
13. PB&J sandwich – y
14. Aloo gobi – y
15. Hot dog from a street cart -y
16. Epoisses - y
17. Black truffle - only minuscule shavings, but yes
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes – y
19. Steamed pork buns -y
20. Pistachio ice cream – y
21. Heirloom tomatoes – y
22. Fresh wild berries – y
23. Foie gras -y
24. Rice and beans – y
25. Brawn, or head cheese -y
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper -y
27. Dulce de leche -y
28. Oysters – y
29. Baklava – y
30. Bagna cauda - yes, though it made me ill (boo, anchovies)
31. Wasabi peas – y
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl –y
33. Salted lassi - y
34. Sauerkraut – y
35. Root beer float – y
36. Cognac with a fat cigar – yes to to cognac, no to the cigar
37. Clotted cream tea - y
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O shot – y
39. Gumbo -y
40. Oxtail -y
41. Curried goat -y
42. Whole insects - assuming candied and/or dipped in chocolate count
43. Phall  -not authentic UK style
44. Goat’s milk -y
45. Single malt whisky – y
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala – y
48. Eel – y
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut -y
50. Sea urchin -y (not an experience I'll repeat - texture issues)
51. Prickly pear -y
52. Umeboshi -y (just this last year, definitely an acquired taste I didn't acquire)
53. Abalone -y
54. Paneer – y
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal – y
56. Spaetzle – y
57. Dirty gin martini – y (vodka martinis aren't martinis)
58. Beer above 8% ABV – y
59. Poutine -y
60. Carob chips -y
61. S’mores – y
62. Sweetbreads -y
63. Kaolin - isn't this more a supplement than a food?
64. Currywurst -y
65. Durian -y
66. Frogs’ legs -y
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake – y
68. Haggis -y
69. Fried plantain – y
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette -y
71. Gazpacho -y
72. Caviar and blini -y 
73. Louche absinthe -y
74. Gjetost, or brunost -y
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie – y
78. Snail – y
79. Lapsang souchong -y
80. Bellini – y
81. Tom yum -y
82. Eggs Benedict – y
83. Pocky -y
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef - wagyu yes, Kobe waygu no
86. Hare -y
87. Goulash – y
88. Flowers – y
89. Horse
90. Criollo (isn't this a cuisine, in which case yes, rather than a specific dish?)
91. Spam -y
92. Soft shell crab -y
93. Rose harissa -y
94. Catfish – y
95. Mole poblano – y
96. Bagel and lox – y
97. Lobster Thermidor -y
98. Polenta – y
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee -y
100. Snake =y

( Life Soundtrack, IPOD version )

( ...and the iTunes version: )

...because I've been overwhelmingly busy and thought I'd ease back into this posting thing...

( question meme )

So I've got a new project for myself. Below is a list from a MLA (Museum, Libraries and Archives Council) poll answering "Which book should every adult read before they die?". It's an interesting list, with the usual classical suspects, many of which I've already read (but should probably read again, and marked with *) but a number I haven't. So I'll start with those, and since I've already got a copy of The Lovely Bones I'll start with it.

*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
*The Bible
*The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
*1984 by George Orwell
*A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
*All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
*The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
*Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
*Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
*Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
*The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
*Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
*Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
*The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
*David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
*A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

This one's about movies. I have no idea of the how or the who or the why of this list, save that there's 171 films and if you score higher than 70, apparently you have no life. If you want to be really nerdy, you can count how many times you saw each in your total. I have no idea how many times I've seen some of these, so I didn't even try. (My total is still 100+ but I know folks who can exceed that on the SW movies alone! )

( da list )

This list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club is doing the rounds, so I figured it's my turn.

Bold - titles I've read.
Asterisk - means I've loved it.
All others, haven't read it, unless there's a bleh, which speaks for itself.

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