My take on the top 50 foods list
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In no particular order, fifty foods I think everyone should try at least once, preferably often.
1. Black pudding (there's a surprise)
2. Epoisses (may substitute other raw milk washed rind cheese)
3. Whitebait
4. Copper River salmon
5. Fermented bean curd
6. Uni
7. Arbroath smokies
8. Caviar
9. Cassoulet
9. Choucroute
10. Pho
11. Laksa
12. Dosa
13. Mussels
14. Clams on the half shell
15. Chanterelles
16. Real Amish Summer Sausage
17. Muscovy duck
18. Kitfo
19. Chipotles
20. Pickled walnuts
21. Wild strawberries
22. Pork crackling
23. Soft shell crab
24. Red beans and rice
25. Octopus
26. Squid
27. Real barbecue of the kind that can only be obtained from a hole in the wall in the nastiest parts of US cities.
28. Collard greens
29. Spring cabbage
30. Irish potatoes
31. Fresh pasta
32. Pickled herrings with sour cream
33. Preserved ginger dipped in dark chocolate
34. Turron de Alicante
35. Thorntons toffee
36. Any raw milk blue cheese
37. Real farmhouse cheddar cheese
38. Serrano or Parma ham
39. Fresh figs
40. A well made omelette
41. Lentilles de Puy
42. Perfectly fresh mackerel
43. Seared tuna
44. Ethiopian coffee
45. Sashimi
46. A real, made from scratch, Caesar Salad
47. Arborio rice
48. Flageolets
49. Pesto
50. Som Tam
If feeling memeish, bold the ones you have eaten, italicise the ones you want to try, strike out the ones that disturb you and add new ones to make up the fifty.
Or just make a new list...
1. Black pudding (there's a surprise)
2. Epoisses (may substitute other raw milk washed rind cheese)
3. Whitebait
4. Copper River salmon
5. Fermented bean curd
6. Uni
7. Arbroath smokies
8. Caviar
9. Cassoulet
9. Choucroute
10. Pho
11. Laksa
12. Dosa
13. Mussels
14. Clams on the half shell
15. Chanterelles
16. Real Amish Summer Sausage
17. Muscovy duck
18. Kitfo
19. Chipotles
20. Pickled walnuts
21. Wild strawberries
22. Pork crackling
23. Soft shell crab
24. Red beans and rice
25. Octopus
26. Squid
27. Real barbecue of the kind that can only be obtained from a hole in the wall in the nastiest parts of US cities.
28. Collard greens
29. Spring cabbage
30. Irish potatoes
31. Fresh pasta
32. Pickled herrings with sour cream
33. Preserved ginger dipped in dark chocolate
34. Turron de Alicante
35. Thorntons toffee
36. Any raw milk blue cheese
37. Real farmhouse cheddar cheese
38. Serrano or Parma ham
39. Fresh figs
40. A well made omelette
41. Lentilles de Puy
42. Perfectly fresh mackerel
43. Seared tuna
44. Ethiopian coffee
45. Sashimi
46. A real, made from scratch, Caesar Salad
47. Arborio rice
48. Flageolets
49. Pesto
50. Som Tam
If feeling memeish, bold the ones you have eaten, italicise the ones you want to try, strike out the ones that disturb you and add new ones to make up the fifty.
Or just make a new list...