TAKING SIDES: HUMMUS VS. GUACAMOLE

'um sure you're right

abominations of guac abound (cf Britishes); hummus rarely reaches such depths. #teamhummus

No option for "they're both disgusting"?

guacamole is higher highs, hummus comparatively more of a fabric, i think

they are both sublime. one's much much easier both to make & to get right (guacamole); one's more abundant in the supermarket but a rarer find at its best.

at its best I think hummus absolutely can't be beat. but getting it just right is much much harder than making a life-of-the-party level guacamole.

but the best hummuses I've had (at Zahav in Philadelphia; at some forgotten-name joint in Columbus; the last one I made from Ottolenghi's recipe, my fourth go at it and nearly perfect)...no guac could aspire to those levels for me

OTOH I grew up in a land of abundant good guac

I love avocados, but I've had too much disgusting gluey guacamole in this country. Hummus it is.

(Also, having grown chickpeas for the first time this summer, i have a whole new appreciation for just how hard it is to grow, and harvest, and cook those fuckers.)

Home grown chickpeas!!!

not voting but fp'd emil.y

they are both sublime. one's much much easier both to make & to get right (guacamole); one's more abundant in the supermarket but a rarer find at its best.

at its best I think hummus absolutely can't be beat. but getting it just right is much much harder than making a life-of-the-party level guacamole.

I pretty much agree with all of this. Both are things that I won't even consider buying premade supermarket versions of, since they're so easy to whip up at home.

You know what's better than both, though?

Muhammara aka Anatolian Breakfast. It's picked walnuts in chilli (and cinnamon?) well all kinds of spices. The Turkish food shop only has it occasionally, so every time I see it I just buy up every tub because it is the most delicious thing I've ever eaten on pida.

agree with emil.y 100% - ban this sick filth imo

i feel like the gulf between store bought guacamole & home-made guacamole is so much vaster than between home-hummus & store-hummus. hummus never really got that transcendent for me; i feel like the kind of granular, $4, anonymously-tupperwared hummus you can get at a health food store is pretty much as good as what i can make, whenever i made it at home. whereas with guacamole you are obviously participating in heresy when you buy into an avocado product that masquerades as fresh in spite of its intrinsic weird murky production history.

platonic guac > platonic hummus
pragmatic guac < pragmatic hummus

I had warm hummus in a home in rural Morocco (/braggin) that was like soup and it was like the best thing I've ever eaten. I think the soupy texture was from beaucoup d'olive oil which was so fresh you could taste the feet on it.

melted hummus that tastes like feet #guac #voteguacamole

Hummus fills you up. You are really voting for avocado w guacamole here.

nothing wrong with voting for avocadoes

I had warm hummus in a home in rural Morocco (/braggin) that was like soup and it was like the best thing I've ever eaten. I think the soupy texture was from beaucoup d'olive oil which was so fresh you could taste the feet on it.

this is the thing - I think most people haven't had good hummus. it's rarer, unless you're in the middle east or are really scoping out the good spots in NY or London or wherever. but proper everything-at-its-freshest hummus...nothing compares, it's incredible.

another thing hummus has going for it is good variations - not yr whole foods "this hummus has roasted red peppers!" (heresy) but masabacha (with whole chickpeas and spices) or Egyptian style (with fava beans & hardboiled egg)...these, got at the right places, are sublime

i will commit live murder itt

they are both sublime. one's much much easier both to make & to get right (guacamole); one's more abundant in the supermarket but a rarer find at its best.

at its best I think hummus absolutely can't be beat. but getting it just right is much much harder than making a life-of-the-party level guacamole.

― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, September 20, 2014 1:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Was gonna type this exact post before I found you somehow read my mind?

i feel like the gulf between store bought guacamole & home-made guacamole is so much vaster than between home-hummus & store-hummus. hummus never really got that transcendent for me; i feel like the kind of granular, $4, anonymously-tupperwared hummus you can get at a health food store is pretty much as good as what i can make, whenever i made it at home. whereas with guacamole you are obviously participating in heresy when you buy into an avocado product that masquerades as fresh in spite of its intrinsic weird murky production history.

― schlump, Saturday, September 20, 2014 1:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

See the kind of health food granular hummus is the kind that I absolutely cannot abide and if you bring that to my house for a dinner party it is going to be the last thing you ever bring to my house

Without trading in claims of authenticity I think this post sums up my feelings about hummus

http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/07/hummus-dilettante.html

In terms of store bought hummus

It's kinda like well are you a Tribes dude or a Sabra dude

A Sabra dude is welcome to take their shoes off in my house any day of the week while a Tribes dude is welcome to miss my door and keep on walking

really really good hummus (to my tastes, at least) is a huge fucking pain in the ass to make and requires starting with good quality dried chickpeas, soaking/cooking them with the right seasonings, skinning each and every one of the motherfuckers which GOD is a right pain in the ass, and then having at the very least a Vitamix-level power blender and exceptional olive oil to make it wonderful.

Great guac means just being able to distinguish between ripe and unripe avocados, then treating them with salt, lime, a little minced onion and jalapeno. Easier to do, harder to fuck up.

Next time any ILXor is in Cleveland I will take you to lunch at Nate's Deli, an authentic Middle Eastern place on W. 25th St. that's been there for decades, where you will have hummus so good you will forget how to even PRONOUNCE "guacamole." I love good guacamole, but a really, really good hummus is like seeing the face of god and then eating that face.

I hate sabra hummus so much

Executive chapters of Scientology in the consumer-grade hummusphere: An ILX investigation

i dunno i just take whatever's mashed up and i can put on shit

it's all good bro

Have to go guac. Some good avos, a bit of cilantro, diced onion (dehydrated with paper towel bc smdh @ soupy guac), and a serrano. So refreshing.

my dad sometimes mentions a piece of cheese he ate, once, forever ago, while he was somewhere as replete with saudade as the spaces people call hummus-hotbeds in this thread. it comes up when he talks about going to buy cheese, everyday cheese, like at the cheese shop on the high street we grew up near, trips i can remember being party to, & how these transactions are occasionally alive with anticipation, unexpectant but irrepressibly hopeful that the inevitable variety in cheese making preparation could make this brie - i think it was brie - of equal significance. & it never is, i don't think, either owing to declining artisanal facility among cheesemakers or else to the synesthetic aura that permeates the memory cheese. & i feel philistinic repping for such attainable hummuses in this thread, like those books that for some reason collate four star movies you might want to watch, but at least i know i perhaps sleep more soundly than those who have tasted the sweeter fruit. i eat hummus & forget about it; if i make it probably some of it yellows around the dish before i've reached it. can anybody rep for dependable, unpilgrimaged hummus over everyday guacamole? i understand that maybe there's something more elemental about the hummus that is made well, something of how disproportionately meaningful it can be to enjoy unaccompanied bread or tomatoes, sometimes, but that guacamole is at once attainable & still just so welcome makes it more important to me, i think.

I haven't had good hummus in a long time so that's what I'm voting for.

Banana guacamole vs banana hummus

Banana edamame hummus on grappa fajita kebabs

guac is a million miles than the best hummus y'all are tripping. hummus is still good but come on.

*better than, obv

schlump's post brings the Horne brothers with their Brie sandwiches to mind

i am sherilyn fenn in this scenario, right

haha

I think guacamole's name really works against it. It's hard to get excited about something with such an unpleasant clump of vowels in its first consonant.

Gwak. It's such a wet, unpleasant sound.

I got gwakked the other night. With guacamole. Yuck!

Oh great. Now I've got "I got mole but I'm not guacamole" running round and round in my head WTF.

Muhammara is incredibly good, i agree. I'll take guacamole over hummus but this thread is making me think i've never had real hummus so i admit i could be wrong.

I was eating Sahadi's hummus AS I READ THIS and I think I still vote guac just for the variety of intense flavors in it. Whereas hummus is kind of a comfort food?

comfort is cool

Bbbbut it's 'wakka' which is a beloved sound to fozzy bears and flocka flames alike

Xp to branwell

the amazing avocado & friends v bean pudding

i love hummus, and i've never developed a taste for guacamole even though i've lived in southern california for eight years. (although i'd say hummus, or middle eastern food in general, is as much a part of the l.a. landscape as avocados.)

I think I love guacamole now more than I ever have at any other time in my life, it's just so lovely. but hummus, as observed, is a comfort food - to me it's the only comfort food that also has these moments of "holy fuck, greatest food I've ever had in my life." at its best, guacamole makes me go "fuck, this is good, this is really really really fucking good." I would be shocked if it ever gave me that "you will remember this meal on your deathbed" feeling I've gotten at least three times while eating hummus.

pointless foods both imo

you have your standard guacamole. but then you can change it up. add some radish and cojita. add some fruit! (dodges thrown tomatoes)

this is a tough choice because the enjoyment of either depends strongly on what you are eating each with, though

Chips and pita lol

FRITOS SCOOPS! (TM)

Love them both, but chickpeas make me fart like a goddamn cannon.

there's a lot of crap guac out there but on the other end it's not only so easy to make yourself, it's so easy to make DELICIOUS

i like hummus but there's also a lot of shit store-bought hummus and i have no idea how to make it myself. i wouldn't make it good. restaurants are expensive.

otoh i am terrible at determining the ripeness of avocados

http://i.imgur.com/8nKUqOq.png

that right there is a bullshit hummus

"fusion"

of the endothermic variety. Takes all your energy not to barf.

i like both goddammit

at the same time?

I love them both but I wouldn't really put them in the same category. Guac is not a meal, it's an appetizer or a side. Whereas you can make a perfectly satisfactory lunch of nothing but good hummus and pita, or you can use it as the base for a vegetable-laden sandwich. (Toasted cheese with hummus is good, too.) So I voted hummus for its versatility.

Also, bad hummus is not as disgusting as bad guacamole.

this thread is making me think i've never had real hummus

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:19 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^is what i'm thinking tbh

i think hummus might take it for me anyway because guac is so transient (which maybe the romantic would argue is a virtue), whereas hummus can, eg, be put in a backpack and enjoyed with pita many days into the backcountry and there is not a single thing more joyful and satisfying than pita and hummus by a waterfall imo

itt: hummus serving suggestions like "a waterfall", "a rustic moroccan farmhouse"

kinda inspired by this thread i've really been enjoying this hummus recipe blog, it has some really neat ideas. i know everybody's expressed some hesitation about fusion hummuses but it seems like it sticks pretty closely to the core hummus concept, like tipsy said, just having some delicious hummus on its own as a meal maybe just with some bread & a comprehensive spread of vegetables on the side & maybe with cheese & pita by a waterfall.

had amazing hummus in Israel, many times. still voting guacamole.

losing hummus would not impact my life too much but losing guacamole = mexican food suddenly not as good anymore

when I was vegetarian, I would regularly spread a thick layer of hummus on toasted bread for a meal.

it's been six years since I've made hummus and I already have some sesame oil, so this thread has inspired me to do it tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-bGJoRb9A

This is my default hummus:

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-morrocan-topped-houmous-200g

But if I'm not lazy, I'll walk up to the Mediterranean Food Centre and get theira.

guess i've not really ever experienced the true transcendent alchemy of guac in itself, i like avocados and am always happy to eat them in whatever way comes to mind, guac seems a method as good as any. could be that the english still feel mildly contrived when taking things in a mexican direction

hummus is always a comfort tho. sometimes i reproach myself for not minding the supermarket wallpaper paste stuff but at least i know the difference i tell myself. it is perhaps underrated as a complement to meat? usually when lamb chops fall into my possession i will have them with hummus and a coriander/cumin type salsa verde and watercress on the side

wouldn't go back to supermarket guac after making my own.
hummous is always good in any form but guac wins it

this is my own totopo to bear but growing up I think avocados were expensive so we didn't have guacamole at home, but I'd see it at parties and the like; and and it would sometimes have mayo: the devil's condiment in it. naturally when your soul is on the line you learn to be wary of all such green gloop, so it was only much later, when I was solvent and avocados weren't priced like gold that I could have pure guacamole, and appreciate its glory.

guacamole = cocaine, hummus = heroin. both addictive as hell.

Lol I never had either hummus or guac til college and post college

First hummus experience was a guy in my building whose dad shipped him a homemade tub

Naturally he was from a rich Boston suburb

Looking back it was of the spreadable brick mortar kind

Can't remember my first guac experience tbh

could be that the english still feel mildly contrived when taking things in a mexican direction

highly recommend getting over this

yeah i doubt doubt the real shit is delicious, just seems like a faff to find/recreate... that thomasina miers bird isnt helping

*don't doubt

it would sometimes have mayo

This breaks my heart

this is a thing in sf taquerias. not mayo, but they dilute guac with crema (Mexican sour cream)
but somehow doesn't quite seem a fair battle.
perfect guac is nothing more than mashed ripe avos, fresh lime juice, ~tiny~ pinch garlic perhaps, some salt. and if you must a wee tiny bit fine chopped onion and/or tomato.
hummus on the other hand has a lot more going on which makes it so much easier to mess up or to just make adequately. canned or fresh chickpeas? canned are fine. fresh is always better but they need to be well cooked. are you gonna peel the skin from your chickpeas to help make it PERFECTLY smooth (or run it through a food mill?); aerate your tahini before adding other ingredients to be processed? little things can help work magic to this dip/spread

XP today of all days

sour cream is fine

let's not lose sight of the real enemy

cilantro?

i've used cumin in guac before, not sure if that's abject savagery or not

Alton Brown has a recipe with cumin

hummus rules so much, guac is dull as hell

For those wondering why they can't make restaurant quality, creamy hummus, its all about producing an emulsion of tahini & lemon juice in a good blender (not food processor) before adding the other ingredients.

This recipe has some good pointers.

(though I'd halve the lemon juice used by dilution)

sour cream is fine

it's a non-trad add-in to make guac go further (to save taquerias money. pennies when they make ~400% profit already from rice/beans/tortillas).why wld you want to dilute it?
multiple xxposts

fuxc cumin in guac. cilantro's fine

i wouldn't want to add sour cream, but at least the guac would still be edible. was objecting to equating mayo with sour cream as calmly as possible.

tahini w/ lamb or beef is glorious. the full scope of guac possibilities remains unknown to me but I am v content in the reality of my hummus lifestyle

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

I ...am not nostalgic for it.

woah

sounds like a southern pimento cheese type deal

sounds like I woulda called CPS

there are some restaurants that thin out their hummus with mayo. i can always tell (and i am firmly in the anti-mayo camp).

yeah this is disgusting savagery

this is a thing in sf taquerias. not mayo, but they dilute guac with crema (Mexican sour cream)

i enjoy this kind of guacamole (they call it "american guacamole" around here) on occasion. in fact i think it because it's extra-creamy it might go better than "mexican guacamole" on some dishes, like rolled tacos.

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dear god

My mom's standard homemade guacamole growing up was half mayo/half avocado with Lawry's seasoned salt stirred in.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

This almost feels like a Lutheran church recipe if I were not certain that the word avocado has never been featured in a Lutheran church recipe book

blandness is underrated

not that i'm saying i prefer bland guacamole but that sometimes bland is more appropriate if it's a side player in the dish

This almost feels like a Lutheran church recipe if I were not certain that the word avocado has never been featured in a Lutheran church recipe book

― 龜, Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:26 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

T-bomb

If I'd have to do without one I wouldn't miss guacamole that much. I've also eaten some incredible and memorable hommus, not really so with guac. As mentioned hommus can be a whole meal with just some bread or an addition. Guac is a side or an additive.

blandness is underrated

i agree! american cuisine is becoming very flavor-forward, which is great, but subtlety is important too.

currently doing this:
http://media.fooducate.com/products/images/180x180/50EEEB05-AA95-BEF2-41AE-93555210E8CD.jpeg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k%2BDMOMRtL._SL500_SS100_.jpg

it is delicious and counting as a meal, but it probably costs double what some good avocados and cheap totopos would run. then again, this will probably last a few meals. hummus storage is definitely superior to guacamole storage.

blandness is underrated
i agree! american cuisine is becoming very flavor-forward, which is great, but subtlety is important too.

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Sunday, September 21, 2014 10:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dear lord

You must be fucking kidding me. Guac

worldsters voting for secret unobtainable hummus you can only procure from a discrete magical location.... nice...

'spazzmatazz' volunteering for live murder I see

ftr I love guacamole but

also I've never mistaken wasabi for houmous before stuffing a whole load in my mouth. great day that was

wait what location is not discrete? tubs of hummus 'orbiting' my refrigerator in a probability cloud?

As a vegetarian these are two of my most favorite foods. Oh. So hard!!

Jalepeno cilantro hummus? That seems like a compromise but still. I hate this poll.

i like these about equally really, but for whatever reason i treat guac as more of a delicacy whereas hummus always exists in my fridge and therefore loses cachet

i have an israeli friend who wisely distinguishes real houmous from hippie houmous. this post gets at the difference between smooth, delicious houmous and chunky, dry hippie houmous: http://desertcandy.blogspot.com/2007/07/hummus-dilettante.html

― marcos, Monday, September 15, 2014 12:47 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

posted this on some poll thread about beans last week

both store-bought varieties are terrible. both are best served fresh and at room temperature (or warmer for houmous)

also i think both are best served in their traditional ways. houmous as a sandwich spread or wrap spread is kind of gross imo (except for maybe falafel, and even then i prefer baba ghanoush on it) but served with warm quality pita it is amazing

I think hummus if I have to chose but I hate that this is a choice I have been made to make.

this is where i had the best hummus

Abu Shaker, 29 Hameginim St., Haifa

^^ want to be there right now

quality hummus as a condiment for shawarma on warm, fresh pita is heavenly.

damn this thread, starving now.

I could eat hummus daily and never tire of it. I cannot say the same of guacamole.

No option for "they're both disgusting"?

― emil.y, Saturday, September 20, 2014 10:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree with emil.y 100% - ban this sick filth imo

― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 20 September 2014 17:37 (2 days ago) Permalink

Thread valuable for uncovering disgusting savages.

the best guacamole is better than the best hummus, but generally hummus is better. Like if you were to randomly select some guacamole and hummus that is produced on Earth, there's a 90% chance that the hummus would be better but if you were to rank all the guacamole and hummus produced on Earth, the top spots would be occupied by guacamole.

That is my theory. It's basically the same thing as pie vs cake or the Beatles vs the Rolling Stones.

worldsters voting for secret unobtainable hummus you can only procure from a discrete magical location.... nice...

― sleepingbag, Monday, September 22, 2014 2:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

*Stuffs your mouth with white bread* Go back to America

silverfish, i feel that way about tortillas. the best tortillas are corn, but there's also way more room for error w/ corn, and flour is way more consistent.

龜 otmfm

There are two salient points here:

1) Hummus stores better. Any guac that is worth anything doesn't. Any "guac" that does...isn't guac.
2) One could live on hummus much more easily than guac.

Those said, there is a far greater chance that I'm drinking something good while consuming guac than there is with hummus.

Shit. I have no idea.

i'm only starting to get vision and sensation back on left side of my body after descriptions of mayo additives to guac way upthread.

i enjoy great guac slightly more than great hummus, but i could basically subsist on good hummus much longer than i could subsist on good guac. /weird metrics

ha xp

Yeah, I totally ignored the whole mayonnaise portion of this discussion. #notguac

The ideal guac (for me) is avocados, Roma tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, salt, lime juice, and Mexican style hot sauce (Cholula or Tapatio, most likely). Garlic has no place in it.

I would be very upset if I actually had to make this decision for myself irl. #both

that's a busy guac

although i've had versions with bullion powder mixed in that were pretty good

or chile powder, or three kinds of chopped peppers etc

yea xp minimalist guacamoles are better. and it should not be a smooth paste, just barely mashed so the texture and color range of the avocado remains

Totally agree on the barely chopped thing. The chunkier, the better.

In mine, the salt, lime juice and hot sauce are very small in amount, and are pretty much subsumed into the rest. The cilantro is key for that green fresh flavor.

agree with minimalism, but chopped peppers are important. serrano chilies are perfect heat imo.

i like salt + (small amount of) pepper, lime juice, cilantro, bare amount of white onion, avocado.

speaking of peppers, i just bought a 1/2 bushel of roasted hatch, froze most, but have some fresh at the ready. need to make some guac asap.

although i've had versions with bullion powder mixed in that were pretty good

― the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:53 Bookmark

hmm not sure i get why this would work

unless u did actually mean gold dust in which case yum

i think they just mixed a bit in with the lime juice to make everything more savory

I could eat hummus daily and never tire of it. I cannot say the same of guacamole.

― Aimless, Monday, September 22, 2014 11:31 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, otm.

can we go back to this because I feel like the words echoed through my soul:

In terms of store bought hummus

It's kinda like well are you a Tribes dude or a Sabra dude

A Sabra dude is welcome to take their shoes off in my house any day of the week while a Tribes dude is welcome to miss my door and keep on walking

I think we usually buy Cedars.

xp yeah I want no part of either

yea cedars is better than sabra.

store bought hummus is typically too thick in my experience. perhaps oil is the expensive component?

lucky to have a "middle eastern" restaurant that makes p good hummus i think.

guacamole all the way though.

Voted for America, the nahuatl part

Aguacate por vida

yea cedars is better than sabra.

― marcos, Monday, September 22, 2014 4:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Is it regional? Haven't seen it along the Atlantic Seaboard

I bought a tub of Wegman's a few weeks ago given the general aura of quality Wegman's exudes and it was pretty bad

I think TJ's has okay hummus but it usually comes in such wacky flavors I don't remember much about the texture

a Tribes dude is welcome to miss my door and keep on walking

Is this anti-semitism?

They have big tubs of non wacky flavor hummus xp

p sure cedar's is available up here in VT/NH

so this just happened

http://i.imgur.com/mO1fVRF.jpg

Eat Real

As U.S. market processed hummus goes, Tribe > Sabra > Cedar's. Sabra uses a bunch of soybean oil (5 g fat vs 3.5 g fat for Tribe), while for Cedar's, tahini is the 4th ingredient (after sunflower & olive oil). I prefer to have the option to drizzle EVOO and sprinkle cumin/paprika myself.

Tip: if you like the dab of hot pepper paste in the hummus as some Meddterranean restaurants (or in Sabra's "Supremely Spicy"), its Sambal Oelek. Huy Fong (of "Cock sauce" sriracha fame) have a widely available version.

Sabra is amazing.

TJ jalepeno cilantro hummus is one of the best things I've ever tasted.

This stuff is also incredibly good but it's made with lentils not chickpeas so it's not really hummus but more of a spread I guess.

http://eatwellembracelife.com/spicy-yellow-lentil-hummus/

for some reason, I keep misreading this thread title as HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLE

still voting guac

flattering these neanderthals imo xp

I made hummus with avocado in it for a party once and people ate it before everything else

I had hummus and pita for lunch iirc

HUMMUS 4 LYFE

sabra sux imo, if you like an airier hummus you are weak.

good guacamole and good hummus are both top notch snack spreads/dips.

don't you see what this thread has done to us

endless this war

the worst guacamole is better than the best hummus

wronggmatongg

Has anybody ever mixed mayo with hummus?

Asking for a friend

dear lord

praise the deer lord for his works

voting hummus

While I enjoy both, I prefer tapenade.

So, I'm not voting.

Has anybody ever mixed mayo with hummus?

i posted a bit upthread that some less-reputable places thin out their hummus with mayo, and i can always tell (mayo is the devil's condiment).

been on a bit of a hummus kick since this thread started. the sabra "classic" on a multigrain cracker is quite nice -- no, not as good as the hummus at my favorite falafel joint in sherman oaks, but i'll take it.

I got super paranoid that my burrito has mayo in it today thanks to this thread

has had

mayo can be anywhere

I used to love going to Abu Hasan in Jaffa, which has the best msabbaha hummus I have had. So much pleasure in such a short time - they kick you out the second you're finished. Have tried in vain to find anything like it elsewhere. One place in Berlin came close. Nothing in the UK.

I suspect I have never had decent guacamole in my life. Probably I have only had terrible guacamole. Nevertheless - as used to be the case with cheese or beer before I knew better - I find the terrible stuff very pleasant.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Made some kickass hummus today, thanks thread.

http://i.imgur.com/5N40jVR.jpg

guess that almost balances out the hottie with the hummus (chips) upthread

sadly it is probably against cheer squad regulations for them to eat their favorite avocado-based super bowl tailgate dish

I really hate the way some british people pronounce houmous so it sounds like they eat soil

they often mispronounce guacamole too but that doesn't bother me

I can't parse this. You mean like when it's pronounced hyoomuss?

yeah

ok yeah that is fair

i do this but i'm under no illusions about my savagery. I also pronounce the car company peugeot like "pyooszoh"

give me a good hummus recipe y'all. Please an thank you.

chorizedo

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

A close one!

thanks, obama!!

guac was robbed

Rob Thomas' fingerprints all over this corrupt result!

don't know what to believe anymore.

i made the best fucking guac ever tonight. ever. but i voted hummus.

I really hate the way some british people pronounce houmous so it sounds like they eat soil

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/british/hummus
that is the way it is pronounced in Israel. there is no short "u" sound in Hebrew (and i'm guessing Arabic either).

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good for israel

Savages!

hoomoos

aka the tahinidriver

ban

حمّص‎

Arabic looks so badass

this was a tight race, almost some bush-gore level ish. i went with hummus and am glad to see that my vote counted.

so did both of my votes!

i've made a terrible mistake

guac's happening here?

hummust be dreaming

Cedar's is generally pretty good for supermarket hummus, but jfc:

http://i.imgur.com/BhPvS50.jpg

GF

The bandwagon for pumpkin spice foodstuffs is awesome to behold. I am using 'awesome' in its earlier sense of 'immensely frightening'.

Cedar's is generally pretty good for supermarket hummus, but jfc:

i know man, "hommus"

hass avocados have been ridiculously cheap for months, it's been like guac erry day

pumpkin spice avocados

Ay you know what I don't even understand is that pumpkins are not even spicy

Cedar's is a local brand guys, please show some respect

is it possible to buy fresh chickpeas in the US? and is hummus appreciably better when it's made from fresh beans as opposed to canned/dried?

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/wesleyan-university-dumps-sabra-hummus-after-student-campaign

“It’s totally gone now — their guacamole, hummus, everything is gone,” Wesleyan Sophomore, Yael Horowitz told The Electronic Intifada. “It happened really quickly once the dining service committee decided.”

Woah. My cafeteria just started carrying Sabra.

I've seen fresh chickpeas at the Dekalb and Buford Hwy Farmers Mkts in Atlanta, but never anywhere else.

I hope the Wesleyan students find an alternative source for hummus and guacamole!

I think even the best hummus you'll find anywhere is made from dried chickpeas that've been soaked and cooked, not fresh-from-the-vine ones

If you gotta go with storebought instead of homemade hummus, it turns out that Boar's Head is really good.

Sounds like a welcome addition to the hummus racket!

this stuff is dangerous: http://www.rootsfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Roots-Mango-Sriracha-Hummus.jpg

i am pro-wacky humus flavors; recently i had some rosemary sea salt hummus that was insane.

yeah, I am generally in favor, but the Thai coconut curry flavor from Roots is also good but impossible to eat more than a small amount. So it takes the right amount of wacky. I also love black bean "hummus".