Toad in the Hole

Copped from Pica.

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1. Venison
2. Nettle tea maybe?
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile Have enjoyed gator, though.
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht Red and white.
10. Baba ghanoush
17. Black truffle Microplaned into my outstretched hand. I miss cook-ins!
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes Seems to be a tendency to make this overly sweet.
19. Steamed pork buns Plus: Steamed or baked pork-floss buns from the Princesse bakery in Oakland.
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries Plucking huckleberries from the cliffs between Heart’s Desire Beach and Indian Beach, accessible only on the summer minus-tides.
23. Foie gras Oddly enough, I’m not sure.
24. Rice and beans In their endless variety; great stuff.
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche Palapa Azul makes a dulce de leche ice cream, too. Outrageous!
28. Oysters First time, nearly choked. Second time and thereafter, loved ‘em. Raw, fried, baked, barbecued…
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas Frequent treat here, big bag from Costco. Boy, did I miss them when I had my braces.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl Tasted someone else’s once. Meh. Homemade would be better, though.
33. Salted lassi My favored kind.
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar Not together, but separately.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O Eh, it’s still jell-o. But I have an occasional weakness for Jell-o.
39. Gumbo OH yeah!
40. Oxtail Shows up on the Aloha Sunday buffet now and then.
41. Curried goat Hey, VS! Got the word!
42. Whole insects No, but Joe has.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more.  I’d love to, but I don’t run in those circles.
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut Best eaten hot.
50. Sea urchin Oddly um venereal sort of dish.
51. Prickly pear Pads and fruit; do I get a twofer?
52. Umeboshi And salted-umeboshi lemonade; best thing at those Vietnamese fashion-goddess cult restaurants.
53. Abalone Speaking of things I miss…
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal A long time ago, in a parkinglot far far away.
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV Watch out for those Belgians.
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips I wish people would stop subbing carob for chocolate. Not bad in its own right, and a great urban tree.
61. S’mores OH yeah. Hey, Julie, how’d yours turn out?
62. Sweetbreads Pretty nice, too.
63.Kaolin Remember Kaopectate? Yup.
64. Currywurst
65. Durian Loved it from the first bite.
66. Frogs’ legs.
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake All of them. 
68. Haggis Deep-fried!
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette I have had boudin in real gut casings, and you could tell.
71. Gazpacho Again, red and white, several kinds of both.
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill Not to my knowledge.
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie And I even remember when Tastykake pies were full of fruit, not fruitish goo. Still better than Hostess.
78. Snail I have an occasional postnasal drip, which renders the eating of snails redundant.
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant As I said, I don’t run in those circles. Unfortunately.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers For an esoteric treat, try propolis from a hive where the bees are working exclusively with nasturtiums.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam.
92. Soft shell crab Mmm, deepfried softshell sandwich with the legs hanging out of the bun, in Annapolis.
93. Rose harissa I wonder if The Spanish Table has that.
94. Catfish On a regular basis, thanks to Joe.
95. Mole poblano And lots of other kinds of mole too.
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor Once. I’d rather taste just the lobster, though.
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee Allegedly.
100. Snake Don’t know if I’d eat one, unless it was fresh roadkill. Maybe.