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[blinker]

Via jss1113, the BBC's list of 50 foods you should eat before you die. Someone needs to explain how they found room on the list for haggis, but not a single type of cheese*. What's up with that?

*Cheesecake so doesn't count.

Comments

[jss]

Yeah, and they list some food styles (e.g., Chinese and Thai and Mexican) but a lot of other food stuffs (e.g., steak and fresh fish and lobster), and some stuff is just odd (e.g., tapas, which can be made of just about anything), and some stuff is listed twice (e.g., fresh fish versus salmon versus sushi: so fresh salmon sushi would be a Yes to three of the 50?). Sloppy sloppy editing on somebody's part.

No cheese (or, aside from cheesecake, anything really dairy-based). No specific pork or poultry products (aside from the one "Jerk pork/chicken"), since "steak" and "ribs" are both nonspecific (could be beef, could be venison, could be pork, etc.). And they don't mention ostrich (another beeflike textured meat), or other poultry (even the common ones like duck, goose, or turkey), and their list of vegetables are effectively nonexistent (which is good from my point of view)....

Silly Beebies.

[bratman.livejournal.com]

since you appear to be all about the cheese, would you be so kind as to provide me the name of the cheese that tastes like dirty socks?
I would like to avoid from consuming it ever again and the guy at the cheese counter at whole foods just looks at my funny when I refer to it as "dirty sock cheese".

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

I always consult pinkfish when I have questions about stinky cheese. But he'll probably want to know if you're thinking of the cheese that tastes like sweaty socks or the cheese that tastes like old unwashed socks.

[bratman.livejournal.com]

Oooh, old unwashed socks most definitely.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Think about who made this list: the BBC! What do a bunch of Brits know about food?!?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly! Shoulda asked the French.

[halibut.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, not a very exciting list. Excessively Western, and ordinary. And a continent missing. (Where's the ostrich, for example?)

Still, a few ideas on there :-D

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Maybe they just assume that everyone will have eaten cheese before they die. No "should" about it. It will just happen.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it seems like there are a lot of things on the list of which that is true.