I don’t generally do memes, but this one speaks to the foodie in me. It’s popped up on several blogs, but it’s originally from Very Good Taste.

Here’s what to do:

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 or at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

Shadow Manor’s Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison (I love venison. It’s particularly amusing to serve it at Christmas.)
2. Nettle tea (I grow a lot of herbs for both culinary and medicinal purposes.)
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (I love this. I’ve even made my own. It’s…messy.)
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 (I’ve made my own apricot wine)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes (I grow my own. I’m very big into saving heirloom varieties of plants)
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras (Someday Shadow Jack will relent and let me raise poultry.)
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (Meh. Too much aspic for my taste.)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (Not a whole one. I’m not that stupid.)
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
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (I did a speech in college on insects in human nutrition, complete with visual aids. Dry-roasted mealworms taste uncannily like Doritos. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.)
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
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
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
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
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
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
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

As you can see, there’s virtually nothing on the list that I wouldn’t be willing to try–the only thing I’d be even vaguely reluctant about would be fugu; I’d want some guarantees that I wasn’t about to go meet that Big Maitre’d in the Sky–but I’d try it if it were offered. I think 80 items out of 100 is a fairly decent percentage.

How about you?