Gluten Freebird

I stumbled across the Omnivore’s Hundred on a few different food blogs over the weekend. It’s a wild, international list of 100 items that Brit blogger Andrew Wheeler of Very Good Taste thinks every omnivore (or food-lover) should sample

I post my list below. I’m pretty pleased with it. I’ve tried 88 items and am missing things like crocodile, road kill and snake. The items I’ve eaten are in bold.

My favorites have a ♥; the things I love, but cannot eat due to gluten are marked with ♣.

Want to play along? Here’s what to do:

1) Copy this list into your blog, 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 on Very Good Taste linking to your results.

Gluten Freebird version of The Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros (With corn tortillas, sunny-side up and fresh guac) ♥
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding (Anyone looking to try some could try CommonWealth)
7. Cheese fondue ♣
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari ♥ (Grilled with pesto, please)
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart (they’re not as good as Dodger Dogs)
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 (I hate sourdough)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (never had a cigar)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O (hello, college)
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (Guess I’ve got to try that Oyamel grasshopper taco)
43. Phaal ** (Have to try this someday)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala ♥
48. Eel (please come up with eel sushi minus gluten)
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut ♣
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear (Juiced in a cocktail, please)
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone (When it isn’t too chewy, it’s delicious)
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (Not proud of it)
56. Spaetzle ♣
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV ♣
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips (A bag is in my freezer now)
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake ♣ (How I miss thee)
68. Haggis (Thank you, Robert Burns)
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini ♣
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu (This got me a bit tipsy in Lhasa back in the day)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie (Not sad that these are gone from my diet)
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 (Where can I get some?)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake