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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.

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[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.