Since I've been neglectful of my cyber world lately, here's a fun activity for all you kids to take part of!

This is the usual list style meme where you bold the items that you have experienced. You can reply with what you've had!

1. Venison (deer and elk) - this one actually gives me the heebee jeebees...
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare - no... but I have had raw meat...
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding - morcilla de sangre!
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp - maybe...
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush - I think I have...
11. Calamari - In every possible way. NOM!
12. Pho - Thank you, Seattle!
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi - I'm likely to.
15. Hot dog from a street cart - and the good kind: "Jodog", the Ecuadorian hotdog.
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns - not yet.
20. Pistachio ice cream - blegh!
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras - someday...
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - uhh.. no.
27. Dulce de leche - in every conceivable way.
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas - not really, but I've had plenty of Wasabi Wheat Crackers, which I think count.
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float - Don't like root beer, but I've had orange soda floats
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O - haven't, surprisingly...
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - does unintentionally swallowing bugs count?
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more - still, wasted on me.
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone - mmmmmaybe...
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle - !!!!!!!!! Bavarian beans and Spaetzle!
57. Dirty gin martini - yes. yuck.
58. Beer above 8% ABV - surprisingly, no.
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores - may be making it up though. not sure on this one.
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian - hell no. I've seen Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern enough times to know what's what.
66. Frogs' legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake -3 down, 1 to go.
68. Haggis - no, but it's on my list
69. Fried plantain - duh!
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - no but I bet TRIPA MISHQUI counts!
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini - Well, I used to down Caviar with flaky bisquits and Gouda. Poor man's version?
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost - not a fan.
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini - sounds like something I would have had by now :)
81. Tom yum - and Tom kha, which is even better!
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare - does being force fed rabbit when you were little count?
87. Goulash
88. Flowers - yes. Roses. But I hear that artichokes ARE FLOWERS! so yeah. Tons.
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - perhaps! we both come from the same place, we may have crossed paths at some point...
91. Spam - Spam sushi and Spam fried rice. Both awesome.
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish - I think it's very likely I had this at some point growing up.
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox - ssooo gooood...
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta - yes. blegh!
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake - tastes like salty chicken! I have a feeling crocodile does too.

Out riding today, enjoying nice weather goodness (while it still hangs on), awesome view, but too bright to capture, so I attempted an HDR:

It's actually alright, but not as gooorrrrgeous as hdrs go... but hey, it's a point and shoot, handheld from the back of the bike, and I'm still testing the waterrs :)

Is that a gnome in the middle of the garden??