Quirkiness meme

Thank you, badriya.

Your Quirk Factor: 74%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal. No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

How Quirky Are You?

Running Diary

Another thirty minutes under my spare tyre! Actually thirty-one minutes because owing to sausage fingers I didn't actually start the watch until I'd been going for a minute.

Once again I ran up to the Crown at North Scale and back to enjoy the scenery. It was another lovely day, actually quite warm and a tad humid. The tide was right out so good views of the channel, but somewhat hazy and a bit murky over the fells. I ran comfortable and although it was nice to stop I could easily have gone on I think.

For my reward I've just had a lunch of bacon and eggs on an oatcake.

100 foods you should eat meme

Thank you yokospungeon

Mark in bold what you've eaten, italicise what you've eaten and hated, strike through those you're not willing to ever try. Underline ones you have no idea what they are.

1. Venison (as sausages)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (in prizewinning sandwiches from a Bristol deli)
6. Black pudding (Yum!)
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht (and I make it regularly too)
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. Peanut butter and jelly 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 (Yum! Bl;ackberries...)
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans (as rice and peas)
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche (in the form of a tin of evaporated milk boiled of destruction)
28. Oysters
29. Baklava (in a variety of spellings)
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (had it many times in a ceramic bowl though)
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float (even found an old-fashioned drug store in Oneida NY to drink it in.
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (Armagnac is better, and the cigar should be a Cuban one of course)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo (as okra or bhindi)
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat (very nice with 39)
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk (just making oatcakes with some as it happens)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more ("As We Get It" - a cask-bottled Macallan)
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala (not my favourite curry dish though)
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin (and I've gathered them myself. And I've sat on one!
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal (not the Meal, no. Thank goodness!)
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (for medicinal purposes only. It's only clay after all)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (I have seen one on sale but not when I wanted to but one)
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis (a great favourite of mine)
69. Fried plantain (yummy)
70. Chitterlings or andouillette (known as lamb's fry in these parts)
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 (I like it one part to 2 parts Assam)
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum (in the Vietnamese form from the Polish shop)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (rabbit) (I've had hare and I've had rabbit and they are not the same...)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers (certainly, if globe artichokes count. Also rose petals)
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (brought up on it! Makes great fritters)
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (waste of good lobster)
98. Polenta (not madly keen though)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (nice but not ten times the ordinary price nice)
100. Snake (but Frank went on at great length about how he had, and how to kill them)