# How many of these foods have you tried? (100 things) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462 "2012-01-14T02:11:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RoeCocoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@RoeCocoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoeCocoa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/41 "2012-01-14T06:47:08Z")
Thirty-four items in twenty-six years. Some of the ones I have tried, I don’t understand why they’d be on anyone’s bucket list-- fried catfish was disappointing. Does elk count as venison? Because that would make thirty-five (and it was wonderful). ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/42 "2012-01-14T06:57:08Z")
7…wow…and they’re all like…sweets and/or fried. And to think I have a weight problem… Churros, funnel cake,Hostess fruit pie, moonpie, root beer float, smores, sweet potato fries. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/43 "2012-01-14T07:01:15Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Here are the 22 things I have NOT had, with some qualifications: > […] > This means that I did have 88 things on the list, which I think is not bad for a picky eater. Frankly, gourmet food is probably wasted on me. I’m not a foodie. I think that’d be 78. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/44 "2012-01-14T07:04:40Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > I think that’d be 78. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/45 "2012-01-14T07:09:10Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > 4–This is a mushroom? Oh man, don’t get me started or I’ll go off on one. All I’ll say is it’s not just a mushroom, it’s a tree root/fungus symbiosis, and it’s one of the most unusual and astonishing tastes on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/46 "2012-01-14T07:26:22Z")
Haven’t had Abalone, Absinthe, Bellini, Bird’s Nest Soup, Black Pudding, Black Truffle, Carp (I think), Chitlins (except as a sausage casing), Crickets, Currywurst, Dandelion Wine, Foie Gras, Fried Green Tomatoes, Frogs’ Legs, Fugu, Haggis, Head Cheese, Heirloom Tomatoes, Honeycomb, Kangaroo, Kobe Beef, Pavlova (I think), Phaal, Raw Oysters, Sea Urchin, Snail, Soft Shell Crab, Squirrel, Steak Tartare, Sweetbreads, and Umeboshi. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/47 "2012-01-14T07:35:18Z")
72 … ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/48 "2012-01-14T08:53:12Z")
1. Not bad considering I haven’t eaten meat in over 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/49 "2012-01-14T09:03:27Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > 1. I am the least adventurous eater you have ever seen. Nope; I only got two; 1. Barbecue Ribs 2. Biscuits and Gravy ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/50 "2012-01-14T10:01:34Z")
1. Many of the things I haven’t eaten seem to be American, which made me realise how little American food we get in the UK aside from burgers. And I don’t get what’s so special about pineapple and cottage cheese! ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/51 "2012-01-14T10:10:44Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Here are the 22 things I have NOT had, with some qualifications: > > 1. Alligator > 2. Bird’s Nest Soup > 3. Black Pudding > 4. Black Truffle > 5. Chicken and Waffles > 6. Currywurst > 7. Durian > 8. Eel > 9. Fugu > 10. Haggis > 11. Head Cheese > 12. Kangaroo > 13. Kobe Beef > 14. Morel Mushrooms > 15. Oxtail Soup > 16. Pavlova > 17. Phaal > 18. Pistachio Ice Cream > 19. Pocky > 20. Rabbit Stew > 21. Som Tam > 22. Tom Yum > > 4–This is a mushroom? > 5–You mean, together? If I’ve had them separately, does that count? > 6–I don’t know what this is–never heard of it > 12–Maybe, I used to eat at Jack in the Box > 16–This doesn’t ring a bell > 17–Never heard of this > 18–I really don’t eat ice cream > 19–Never heard of this > 20–I’ve had stewed rabbit, but it wasn’t called rabbit stew > 21–Never heard of this > 22–Never heard of this > > I used to eat at a Thai restaurant a friend worked at, and I had a tendency to forget the names of things, even though I liked them. The things I remembered best had translated names, i.e. “Beef salad hot.” > > This means that I did have 88 things on the list, which I think is not bad for a picky eater. Frankly, gourmet food is probably wasted on me. I’m not a foodie. Black Truffle is a fungus ball thing that grows underground. Currywurst is a German fast food - imagine a hotdog smothered in curry flavoured ketchup. Pavlova is a dessert - a large meringue filled with cream and berry fruit. Phaal is a very very hot indian style curry invented in Britain - the hotest curry you can order. You only eat it for a dare. Tom Yum is a spicey Thai soup. Som Tam is a shredded Thai salad made with papaya. How can stewed rabbit not be rabbit stew? ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/52 "2012-01-14T10:18:05Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > How can stewed rabbit not be rabbit stew? Hare Stew. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/53 "2012-01-14T10:46:29Z")
Hostess Fruit Pie? Really?! Who made this list and decided that it deserved to be on there? Blegh…I don’t know if they were some culinary masterpiece in the good ol’ days but now it’s sickly sweet fruit syrup in a waxy pie shell. They sound good once in a while, when memory of the taste fades enough but I always immediately regret it as soon as I bite into one. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/54 "2012-01-14T12:16:49Z")
At least 84. I’ve had chicken and I’ve had waffles, but didn’t count “chicken waffles.” There were a couple of other things I didn’t recognise so I didn’t count them, such as pocky and som tam. Perhaps I’ve eaten these things but don’t recall, or they were called something else? I’m guessing the latter is Vietnamese and I’ve eaten a Vietnamese restaurants. I can also think of a _ton_ of things that aren’t on that list. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/55 "2012-01-14T12:19:13Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Tom Yum is a spicey Thai soup. Som Tam is a shredded Thai salad made with papaya. Ah! I was wrong. I don’t think I’ve had either, then. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/56 "2012-01-14T12:24:59Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. Not bad. Lots of good Southern cooking on that list. Yeah. I did poorly but I couldn’t help but feel that it was mainly because of a large US bias. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/57 "2012-01-14T13:59:00Z")
35 for me. Some of the items were unknown to me, some I know are way spicier than I’d like, some I just couldn’t bring myself to even try - like soft shelled crab or raw oyster. I grew up in Baltimore and I was around people all my life who ate/still eat these, but I can’t do it. ick. On the other hand, I’m not as fussy as I was as a kid, and I do love me some calamari. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/58 "2012-01-14T14:00:25Z")
Only 88. I’m disappointed in myself. 😃 The ones I haven’t had: 1. Absinthe 2. Bird’s Nest Soup 3. Currywurst 4. Foie Gras 5. Fugu 6. Goat’s Milk 7. Haggis 8. Nettle Tea 9. Phaal 10. Rabbit Stew (I’ve had lots of rabbit, but never rabbit stew) 11. Som Tam 12. Sweetbreads I’d be happy to try any of them with the possible exception of fugu and bird’s nest soup! ---
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77 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462/60 "2012-01-14T14:14:24Z")
1. I’ve not had: 2. Currywurst - never seen this 3. Dandelion Wine - I don’t drink wine 4. Eggs Benedict - I don’t like poached eggs 5. Fugu - too expensive 6. Kangaroo 7. Lassi - yech 8. Nettle Tea 9. Pineapple and Cottage Cheese -yech 10. Som Tam [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-these-foods-have-you-tried-100-things/609462.md?page=4)