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Which of these 100 things have you eaten? I've marked the ones I've eaten in bold.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue (in Paris no less)
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 (we're growing some right now)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (not a whole one...)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (blech, I don't understand the attraction of eating boogers)
29. Baklava (I should post my recipe, it's a potluck favorite)
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 (I doubt I'll ever smoke a cigar)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (I introduced Mary to Jello shots)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (grasshoppers in Mexico, tasted like dust)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (Simone drank this quite a bit)
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 (worst, sushi, ever)
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone (totally overrated)
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (thanks to my uncle Wes)
58. Beer above 8% ABV (tasted it, ick)
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (why carob?)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
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 (I've even had white gazpacho in Spain)
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (thanks to Cornell dining)
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (I made it myself)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I've eaten 67 out of 100, does that make me worldly?