Idiot on a Stick

Lyndon keeps posting these things, and I keep following. These are the rules if you want to do it:

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. Or you can leave me a comment so I can check out your list as well.

Ok, so what I’ve eaten, I’ve bolded. What I’d never eat is stricken out. And there may be some really gross things there that I’d never eat but I just don’t know what they are, so I’ve left them alone.

The Omnivore’s Hundred:

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 (I like curry, I don’t want to try 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 (don’t want it again)
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%
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain (don’t want it again)
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 (I’m not too big on any kind of fish, really)
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

There you go Lyndon, I think I’ve eaten less than your 49.

I took a vacation day today so I could do another jewellery show. And I went back to the same hospital that I was at - when, a month ago or so?

Well the day seemed very slow moving and I was, of course, standing almost all day - very hard for a sit down all day and night type of girl. My legs were aching, my feet were tired (even though I had those comfy Naturalizer-type shoes on).

When it was time to leave, I turned onto the only street in the city that was stopped up for 5 miles due to a rear-ender. Stupid me, couldn’t see the traffic before I turned onto that street. So I just got home about half an hour ago. I did my reports - you know, the one for the interac/credit card machine I pay $70/month for, and didn’t I find that I’d made even more money than I did the last time I was there.

I couldn’t believe I’d made more money. Things seemed so slow moving compared to last time but I made a couple of hundred dollars more. So I was pretty damned happy about that. The way it was going in the morning I was just happy that my cousin had shown up and bought a couple of things - I figured that might be it for the day.

So after all that work, now I’m just gonna put my feet up, finish my tea, and try to talk my body into staying awake longer than 8:00.

It was a good day, but I’ve gotta go back to work tomorrow, so there’s no rest for the wicked.

We rented this Saturday night and I was expecting a comedy for some reason. Actually that’s the only reason I did rent it… there was nothing else, so I thought, “ok, a comedy will do”.

It wasn’t a comedy. It’s more of a life story about ’smart’ people or, rather, people who think that they’re smart and are therefore smug, pompous, belittling and arrogant.

Dennis Quaid plays the father who lost his wife a few years before; he’s got a teen son and a teen daughter - the daughter (Ellen Page), very much like the father in her air of superiority.

Quaid’s adopted brother (Thomas Haden-Church) is probably the only seemingly normal one although he’s a loser, flitting from job to job and always looking for a loan.

So it’s about their lives and the looking for love quest although none was actually purposefully looking. But once Dennis thinks he’s found something like love with Sarah Jessica Parker, he pursues it regardless of their rocky start.

It wasn’t a bad movie. I didn’t fall asleep although it was fairly slow moving. Probably too much dialogue for anyone other than women. Oh, I shouldn’t say that, I’m just purporting stereotypes, but when I think of what most guys seem to like, this doesn’t fit into it.

I didn’t laugh, I didn’t cry. It was a time waster that I probably wouldn’t watch a second time.