Awhile ago I spotted the Omnivores 100 meme on Becks & Posh which was started by Very Good Taste. It was a pretty good list but some of the entries would be better off on a meme of 101 things not to eat before you die.
For a start insects. Yes, I know we eat them all the time ground up in to flour. But I really don’t want to them (although I’ll contradict myself by saying green ants with smoked salmon are quite delicious). Spam is to be avoided at all costs and chitterlings just smell of what they are – bum.
Instead having just returned from England for the first time in years I was looking for something with more focus. I wanted to focus on the essential things to eat to make the most of my visit. I’ve just found that I’m not the first to do this a British 100. I think it started here.
This is my personal one and I’ve eaten every one (I’ve left out liquids). If you feel like joining in:
1) Either make your own list or copy this one to your blog.
2) Mark all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Delete anything you would never eat
4) Link back if you fancy.
I wouldn’t mind seeing an Australian 100 and Asian100. Anyone game?
1. Diver caught scallops
2. Dover Sole
3. Sea bass
4. Wild Salmon
5. Turbot
6. Cod and chips
7. Smoked haddock
8. Scampi and chips
9. Chicken in a basket
10. Salt and vinegar crisps
11. Jaffa Cakes
12. McVities digestives
13. English sweets stuck inside a paper bag ( usually with a few bits of fluff).Gobstoppers, humbugs, Lemon sherberts (aka lemon perverts in our household), liquorice.
14. Patum Pepperium
15. Branson Pickle
16. Pickalillee
17. Jellied eel
18. Cockles
19. Winkles
20. Haggis
21. Pork Pie
22. Potted Shrimps
23. Eccles cakes
24. Dundee cake
25. Sponge cake with raspberry Jam and cream
26. Scones with strawberry Jam and clotted cream
27. Cucumber sandwiches on white bread with crusts cut off
28. Smoked salmon sandwiches
29. Pork scratchings
30. Faggots
31. Marmite
32. Heinz Tomato Sauce
33. Heinz bakes Beans
34. Chicken Tikka Massala
35. Porridge
36. Toad in the hole
37. Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding
38. Eton mess
39. Strawberries and cream
40. Blackberry and apple pie.
41. Cheddar cheese
42. Stilton
43. Stinking bishop
44. Kippers
45. Arbroath smokies
46. Chips, rice and curry sauce (or chips, rice and mushroom sauce/gravy)
47. Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce
48. HP Sauce
49. Daddy’s Sauce
50. Jacobs water biscuits
51. Dressed crab
52. Bangers and mash
53. Cumberland sausage
54. Cornish pasty
55. Welsh rarebit
56. Kendall Mint Cake
57. Game pie
58. Jugged hare
59. Grouse
60. Full english breakfast: bacon, sausage, egg, beans, fired potato, fried bread, egg
61. Mushy peas
62. Jersey royal new potatoes
63. Gooseberry fool
64. Rhubarb crumble
65. Butterscotch
66. Irish stew
67. Golden shred marmalade
68. Rich Tea biscuits
69. Ginger biscuits
70. Lemon sylabub
71. Fresh horseradish sauce
72. Greengage tart
73. Roast lamb with mint sauce
74. Roast goose
75. Fish pie (Two Fat Ladies recipe)
76. Scotch eggs
77. Lancashire hotpot
78. Summer pudding
79. Potato salad
80. roast pheasant with bread sauce
81. Brussel sprouts
82. Asparagus with hollondais sauce
83. Pontefract Cakes
84. Bubble and squeak
85. Trifle
86. Custard
87. Ploughman’s lunch
88. Steak and kidney pudding ( or pie)
89. Bakewell tart
90. Colchester oysters
91. Rabbit casserole
92. Smoked trout pate
93. Shrewsbury biscuits
94. Gingerbread men
95. Cock-a-leekie-soup
96. Cauliflower cheese
97. Buttered crumpets
98. Kedgeree
99. Hot English mustard
100. Grey legged Partridge
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