Thus I have nothing to complain about and will turn to the memes, because I think what this blog has been missing is more about me... Anyhow as we all know these are somewhat boring to read except for the annotations, so I will be annotating heavily! Hold on to your seats.
First up the food meme, which I don't think I've been tagged for but man is it entertaining. Bold means I et it, italics means it hit my gullet and did a reverso, strikethrough means I'd rather go on Fear Factor and get covered in tarantulas.
1. Venison - Oh, Canada! We honeymooned and feasted there.
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding - British culture is full of deadpan humor, as is their food.
7. Cheese fondue - Most recently, also in Canada!
8. Carp - On summer vacations we fed ducks and watched the carp circle beneath. The mother ducks were terrified and kept trying to herd their oblivious charges away.
9. Borscht - Gotta love the CSA veggies. Lord do we eat beets.
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart - Is it better or worse that this was in NYC?
16. Epoisses - Winston Churchill on France: "How can you govern a country with 300 cheeses?" De Gaulle: "There are at least 350."
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns - Dr Hyde is Asian....
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes - the ones from our garden this year tasted like wine....oh so good.
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras - I'm against animal cruelty, until it tastes like this.
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche - And the Haagen-Dazs version, which is just too sweet.
28. Oysters - I'm missing N'Awlins right about now.
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda - No, but having googled it ("Hot bath? Huh?") just now, I sure want to try.
31. Wasabi peas - Can we just stipulate that nothing sold at Trader Joe's should count as exotic enough for this list?
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 - When I was about 10, and I still remember the eclairs.
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O - Also that nothing you drank in college should make this list? Unless you went to college in Macau or something?
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala - booooorrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnnnnnggg
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - Only 0.5/sitting though or my head explodes.
50. Sea urchin - Presumably they mean the roe.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin - This appears to be a type of rock. Can someone enlighten me?
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - My eyes were watering it tasted so vile. Had to go brush my teeth immediately. I've read all the articles on how it smells bad and tastes good. FAIL!
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake- the whole reason for SfN annual meeting in NO is the beignets, srsly.--BikeMonkey speaks the truth.
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 - Dr Hyde calls it barbeque tea, but I love it.
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky - Someone brought it into lab one day.
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers - Show me the person who has not nibbled a dandelion.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab - The best part of jury duty in New York is that it's in Chinatown. WIN!
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox - The best part of New York is that it's in New York. Bagel lox win!
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. SnakeSo I've eaten 66 of these....D minus!
Next up, the book meme, as seen at AcmeGirl's!
Bold is I've read it, italics is started but unfinished.....
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - And the BBC adaptation, overandoverandover.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Reads like science fiction, and I hate science fiction.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - can quote passages at length.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - I went to Episcopalian school for 12 years. 'Nuf said?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Think I read this too early since the lesson I took from it was that women are crazy and Dickens was boring.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - For school. And disliked it all the way through.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - Warning: completely weird addition to pseudo-intellectual list!
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Read it for school, got A's on all my essays, never really got it. Prob time for a reread.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Maybe someday when I'm old or dead.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - And the rest of the "trilogy."
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Dr Hyde loves the Russians but they mostly leave me cold.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Go ahead, ask me to recite the Jabberwocky. No, really, go ahead. I'm fun at parties.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - And "Lazy Sunday" too.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Er, duh, this is one of the Chronicles of Narnia. Who's in charge of this list? Moron.
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Actually started reading it to Dr Hyde in absence of us having a child for me to take it out on.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - And I'll never get those 2 hrs back, either.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Anne bugged me. Everyone always ended up loving her. Emily of New Moon was a much more interesting heroine.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - Ok but does not belong on this list, that's for sure. I think men just rated it highly because the guy has sex twice in 24 hrs.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - I'm loving the Austen boost to my list here.
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - Again, really does not deserve to be on this list. Also? The people who couldn't figure out the "mystery" are morons.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - I read it before it came out in the US and pissed off my college suitemates by laughing out loud so frequently.
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Acmegirl, you will have to share more about the dance piece. I sure hope you weren't the whale.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - I lived in England for a year, an experience which made this book unfailingly hysterical.
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - Quite recently, liked it but didn't love it.
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - It was good, but everything else of Ishiguro's I've read has been junk.
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - I nominate this book to be the first one removed from this list by appalled meme-doers.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Kinda stretching to make 100 here, aren't we?
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - It was like a French collection of Hallmark cards. Quelle horreur! But Saint-Exupery's autobiography was good.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - At summer camp, ostentatiously. Wonder why nobody liked me?
And that makes an even 50/100. Fail!
If anyone wants to consider themselves tagged, you go right ahead.
Finally, I've been simul-tagged for an award by Scientist Mother and the duo at RESEARCHERS and, late-breaking news, DrdrA! Honored!
I'm going to take this triple-tag as a sign that this one has propagated pretty thoroughly through my little community. But if you haven't been nominated yet, Anonymoustache and DamnGoodTech, this is your time!
5 comments:
63. Kaolin - This appears to be a type of rock. Can someone enlighten me?
Yeah, it's the "kao" in Kaopectate -- i.e. clay. They sell it in the bulk spices section of my local hippie co-op (maybe the hippies make toothpaste out of it or something?) and you can treat diarrhea with it, but it's hardly a food.
Maybe there's a Chinese food with the same name?
BTW, if you've ever had gefilte fish, you've almost certainly eaten carp. And don't be such a snob about McDonalds! It's certainly less vulgar than a "dirty gin martini" or any other flavored *tini.
Thanks Dr.J!
Hmm, well I've had Kaopectate, so perhaps I should add that to the "yes" list!
I have somehow never had gefilte fish, which is odd given my friends...
McD. isn't about snobbery-- I had chicken nuggets etc in my youth but never liked or eaten their burgers. After reading Fast Food Nation--never will. Waaaayyy grosser than a dirty martini, unless your olive juice comes from downer cows.
In and Out, though--them's some fine burgers!
That's not what they mean about kaolin.
Kaolin is a white clay found in some portions of the US that's used in pigments, papers, ceramics, your catalytic converter, etc. If you are from a part of a state known for kaolin mining or production, people from nearby will inevitably ask you if you eat it. It's a question asked typically of women because supposedly pregnant women can get a craving for it (the minerals). Some think it's actually a type of pica being manifested in those/that region (I really only associate it with one place).
It's not a hippie thing when they're talking about kaolin :)
durian? i hate durian
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