Party and food meme

[louiselux]

Gah, it's one of those days where I just feel like I'm dropping, breaking, trampling and otherwise ruining everything in the house in a mad rush to get everything done on time. Last week I swallowed the end of a needle - that's okay, right? It was only a tiny short bit.

daegaer, [Unknown site tag]new_kate and tarteaucitron came over at the weekend for my birthday party. We lounged around, drank wine, made cakes and watched ice skating and 'The Saint'.  They make the most wonderful houseguests, let me add. Come back! Never leave!  

I sent out invites labelling my party a 'cake and fizz' one. Good move, because guess what everyone bought me? Yeah! It was a totally rockin' night. I remember some really bad singing towards the end of the night, so I'm very sorry to anyone who had to listen.

Here's that food meme, via telophase

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



1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
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
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
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
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 (Yuk)
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 (The concept of S'mores has not really travelled across the Atlantic to the UK, but I made my own once using chocolate digestives and toasted marshmallows. They're... very sweet.)
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

I can't bear the thought of eating things like snails, insects and frogs. I would fail at one of those shows where they make people live in the jungle and eat crickets and worms, or whatever.

The British food items that leap out are haggis, a cream tea, brawn, black pudding and... Fruit wine made from something other than grapes. Oh yeah.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Snails, like artichokes, are basically vehicles for carrying garlic butter to your mouth.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Oh, so the snail is substrate for butter delivery? That makes more sense than just eating snails. Slightly.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup! It acts like calamari - eaten piping hot, it's soft and easy to chew, but once it cools down it gets rubbery. So you* order them as appetizers and eat 'em down ASAP. :)


* General you, not you specifically.

[scribblemoose]

Glad you had a lovely party. :) And on the subject of cake - don't forget to register for Squeefest! Places are filling up fast. Don't want you to miss out. :)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It was pretty awesome, with my awesome houseguests to make it even better.

Ta for the reminder about the squee!

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

I miss youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! It was such a fab weekend ♥

(There's something about an eccentric countryhouse owner on Channel 4 - she's so eccentric it's a bit upsetting, so I turned over to RTE and found crossdressing cuttlefish. Now there is cuttlefish infidelity, with the crossdressing male and his girlfriend canoodling literally under a larger male . . . ETA: OMG, now there's a 4 metre octopus giving her life for her babies, a starfish the size of a dustbin lid that fought with a giant crab that ripped off one of its arms and ran off with it - growbag like a starfish! - and other assorted monsters of the deep. It's wondrously hideous and I feel it may be scarring me for life).

Also, I have eaten snail just to prove I could. They tasted of nothing whatsoever, and looked less than appetising.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I miss you too! Thanks for coming over and I hope it wasn't too exhausting.

Eeek, life in the briny deep. Feeling so lucky not to be a cuttlefish/octopus/growbag starfish. Their lives suck!

Blech, snails. I'm never going to eat a snail. I do not understand these people who want to be adventurous with food - I don't want any of my food to have ~feelers.

[fedal-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Speaking of wondrously hideous & monsters of the deep...

I think it was emungere that scarred me for life with this.

(http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b147/gokuhakkai/?action=view&current=DreamoftheFishermansWife.jpg)

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Aieeeeeeeeee! *can never eat calamari again*

I, um. That's quite a picture!

[horizon-greene.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a fun party—it sounds amazing! Anything that ends in inept singing is a total win, I'd say.

FWIW, frog legs and snake are both delicious—but then, anything that's breaded and fried probably tastes fairly okay, you know?

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

It was so goood I miss you already!

Also clearly I must bring on the borscht at some point.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had an AB FAB weekend.

Also my son would never ever forgive me if I ate snails, samkes,frogs, ...basically any type of amphibian or reptile. He is slightly enamored with them! Also prior to Darian ... I have never felt the urge to anyways. Just uhmm no.

No horse either. I've had vegetarian haggis up in Scotland. ^_^ That was rather interesting in texture and taste and probably nothing like the real thing.

Great to see you and good to see you're good. *HUGS N LOVE*

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

So glad you had a good weekend! I am saddened you haven't had some of my favorites, gazpacho is so amazing.