Adventures in Eating: Whether Vegan or Omnivore There's a List for You

I first saw the vegan version of this Vegan 100 list on Girl Goes Vegan, who borrowed it from someone who borrowed it from someone.... You know how these things are. 

That sent me in search of the original Omnivore's 100 on the Very Good Taste blog. As Jill and Andrew, the creators of the list, wrote there, "The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food—but a good omnivore should really try it all."

The vegan list as published left some things on it from the original (like haggis!) so I deleted the stray meat items and made it 100% vegetarian/vegan.

I've been a vegetarian for I don't quite know how long--maybe eight or nine years? Before that I had the chance to try some unusual things at the North Idaho College annual Wild Game Feast and at a dinner prepared by the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association back in my legislative days. So I'm able to score pretty well on both lists thanks to my former life as an omnivore. (In fact, they don't list bear meat on the omnivore's list but I've had it. It's better in years the bears get lots of berries and honey.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

4) What’s left are things you have not eaten yet that you would try.

(I note that my blog's style sheet makes the links look as if they're in boldface when they're not.)

The Vegan 100

1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Agave nectar
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegemite
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Taco from a street cart (yes, if they have a vegetarian option)
16. Boba tea
17. Black truffle (can't wait!)
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Rice and beans
24. Knish
25. Raw scotch bonnet pepper  (because I'm not crazy and I've read about Scoville units)
26. Dulce de leche
27. Baklava
28. Pate (vegetarian, yes; diced fatty liver, no thanks)
29. Wasabi peas (yum!) 
30. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
31. Mango lassi
32. Sauerkraut
33. Root beer float
34. Mulled cider
35. Scones with buttery spread and jam
36. Vodka jelly
37. Gumbo (without meat)
38. Fast food french fries
39. Raw brownies
40. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
41. Dahl (also spelled dal)
42. Homemade soymilk
43. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
44. Stroopwafel (these sound delicious!)
45. Samosas
46. Vegetable Sushi
47. Glazed doughnut
48. Seaweed
49. Prickly pear
50. Umeboshi (I haven't had the fruit yet but I've had the vinegar made from it)
51. Tofurkey
52. Sheese (I haven't had this particular brand but I've had fake cheese, which is why I'm a vegetarian and not a vegan)
53. Cotton candy
54. Gnocchi
55. Piña colada
56. Birch beer
57. Carob chips
58. S’mores
59. Soy curls (kind of leathery and not worth it)
60. Chickpea cutlets
61. Curry
62. Durian
63. Homemade Sausages (vegan/vegetarian)
64. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
65. Smoked tofu
66. Fried plantain
67. Mochi
68. Gazpacho
69. Warm chocolate chip cookies
70. Absinthe
71. Corn on the cob
72. Whipped cream, straight from the can
73. Pomegranate
74. Fauxstess cupcake (what a fun recipe! memories of childhood)
75. Mashed potatoes with gravy (I have a great vegetarian gravy recipe from my 3 Bowls cookbook)
76. Jerky (vegetarian/vegan)
77. Croissants
78. French onion soup (it is entirely possible to make a wonderful, rich French onion soup without meat stock. I've done it.)
79. Savory crepes (again thanks to the 3 Bowls cookbook, I have a recipe for crepes made with chickpea flour stuffed with garlicky green beans)
80. Moussaka
81. Sprouted grains or seeds
82. Macaroni and “cheese”
83. Flowers
84. Matzoh ball soup (vegetarian/vegan)
85. White chocolate
86. Seitan
87. Kimchi
88. Butterscotch chips
89. Yellow watermelon
90. Chili with chocolate
91. Potato milk
92. Polenta
93. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
94. Raw cookie dough
95. Portabello mushrooms
96. Morels
97. Black rice
98. Sun-dried tomatoes
99. Bagels
100. Capers

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (aka blood pudding)
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
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 (see note above about Scoville units!)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda (if they'll leave out the anchovies I'll give it a try)
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi (I've only had the sweet mango lassi)
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I've had cognac and I've tried a cigar--just not together)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (my dad told us he'd eaten chocolate-covered ants and grasshoppers while he was overseas during World War II; he said the legs stick in your teeth)
43. Phaal (although it sounds vegetarian I think I'll pass; see Scoville units reference above)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu (being a vegetarian means not having to eat potentially poisonous fish)
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer (I had truly fresh homemade paneer, no less, thanks to dear friend Maggie teaching an Indian cooking class in my kitchen for a bunch of girlfriends)
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (just not a big fan of olives)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (well, as it's an ingredient in Kaopectate I guess in a way I have, but not directly!)
64. Currywurst
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 (heck, in those lunches Mom packed I encountered many a Hostess product: Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, cupcakes)
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum (if I can get a vegetarian version, yes)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (but I've had rabbit)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa (but watch the Scovilles....)
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Your turn

What isn't on either list that you think a well-rounded palate should experience? Any stories about adventures in eating? 

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