Seemed like fun

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.

The VGT 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
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
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
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

THE PLAN

In the interest of avoiding going through this explanation with everyone I know, here is a summary of my plan for the next, oh, few months to year:

Run away with my love, work on organic farms for room & board. Go up and down North America. Adventure.

Before you start grilling me, please make sure your question hasn’t already been answered in the FAQs below.

When are you leaving?
We need to be out of our current place on the first of September, but we’ll stick around San Francisco until Chris gets his last paycheck on the 20th.

Where are you staying until then?
On people’s couches and maybe camping out in backyards. Got a couch or a backyard in or around San Francisco? Call me.

What happened to school?
Meh.

So you’re going to be a farmer now?
For the time being, yes. =D

Actually, we’ll be staying at places in the WorldWide Opportunities on Organic Farms network — some of which aren’t actually farms, oddly enough. Who knows how much actual farmwork we’ll end up doing.

What are you doing with all of your stuff?
Selling it, for the most part.

Have a rough itinerary?
Yup! We’re leaving on September 20th, hopefully to a place somewhere close by for a short stay to ease ourselves into the whole thing.

For most of October we’ll be in SoCal, visiting both of our families and hanging out in Riverside for some reason.

At the end of October we’ll make our way up to the Northwest (probably on a train). We’ll mix farm stays with doing the touristy thing in Portland and Seattle (Chris has never been) and hopefully see some old pals.

We’re hoping to find a nice farm to stay at up there until the holidays roll around — and surely, our parents will miss us so dearly that they’ll demand we fly back down to California on their dime. =D

After Christmas, we want to check out Mexico and hope to get around just fine with Chris’s minimal Spanish skills.

If we haven’t run out of money by March we’ll head over to the East Coast, since Chris hasn’t been there either.

How are you going to get around?
Trains and buses mostly. If we feel really courageous, we may get bikes at some point.

How are you going to pay for it?
With money, mostly. We’re hoping (admittedly, very naively) that if we start to run out of money we can plunk down and make some more — you know, Chris is a fancy barista and I, uh, can knit…

Seriously, you’re dropping out of school? But Jenny, you must go to school!
I’ll admit, I’ve only heard this one from uptight family members. I can’t imagine why they’re still surprised at this point; I’ve dropped out how many times now? Yeah, this is the fourth time.

(Here’s one that, actually, no one has asked yet, but I’m pretty sure someone will.) Hey, I live in one of those places you’re going to, and think y’all are cool cats. How about you come stay with me for a while?
You’ve got it.

Not that I’m sayin’ you have to or nothin’

Soooooo, my birthday’s on Sunday.

Incidentally, my favorite webcomic artist has just begun selling her second book, and, um…

As usual I am offering custom drawings on personalized editions. But as a bonus, if you order a personalized edition for the first week – that is, until next Wednesday – I will personally give Hanna a SPARKLE BUTT in your book. If you know what this means, you will probably want it.

I know what it means. I want it.

Just, uh, just in case you didn’t know what to get me.