ILX DECIDES THE BEST VEGETABLE: A POLL

Aubergine by a landslide

Where the fuck is zucchini what I nominated?

zucchini is a summer squash, so put yer vote there

I could've got behind this as a ballot poll.

Any reason mushy peas are they only prepared veg included?

Summer squash my ass, I'm voting mushy peas.

this whole nominations / poll process has been a thinly-disguised attack on noodle vague and tom d's insane assertion that mushy peas are the acme, the ne plus ultra if u will, of veggie goodness, so they kinda need to be included for public shaming purposes

Summer squash my ass, I'm voting mushy peas.

fp'd u

worth it

fp'd u again

Brilliant, an elaborate vegetable-based shaming. An updated version of the stocks, essentially.

mmmmm vegetable stocks

MUSHY PEAS

you people are killing me

the tomatoes were in a can

Just about everything I cook has tomatoes and onions in it, so I'll vote for the one that is a vegetable. Tomatoes obv.

almost otm. the lack of lettuce appreciation surprises me

Beetroot ftw. Grooviest colour, tastes great.

No Kale. We'll done everyone, proof we don't deserve to die in a nuclear holocaust.

lotus root!

Too many options it's all bollix there are only about six vegetables

In what world are even basics- I'm not getting into broccolini for fucks sake- like potato or mushroom 'vegetables'

Write in vote for chicken ffs

Onion wins on versatility alone, lack of garlic here is a scandal.

Too many options it's all bollix there are only about six vegetables

what can i say, ilx contains multitudes, and some of those multitudes don't know what a vegetable is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Write in vote for chicken ffs

chickens grow on the ground rather than on the vine so there's a case to be made imo

I thought I didn't like mushy peas but I think that was based on trying them once when I was very young (probably under 5). Then when we had some in-laws visiting they wanted to try some of our disgusting British food so we had fish, chips & mushy peas and I gave it a go and what do you know, mushy peas are actually delicious. Although not enough that I'm bitterly upset about 35 years of no mushy peas tbh.

Had same experience with mushy peas but put it down to the version I had as a kid coming from a cheap tin whereas now I guess it would be posh stuff.

annoying mandelson joke goes here

lol! Would those dried peas boxes from Batchelors with the sodium bicarb tablet be considered posh if you buy them from Waitrose?

this is probably the most elaborate response to a throwaway challop in ILX history and i'm voting mushy peas

Ingins or tatties for the win.

neep-off

this is probably the most elaborate response to a throwaway challop in ILX history and i'm voting mushy peas

i'm nothing if not a) thorough and b) prone to bursts of filigreed passive-aggressiveness

it's all love bg

all love here too

unless mushy peas win obv

voted broccoli cos it never gets love and its like eating miniature trees

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TA
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gotta be potato (posts very much as racial stereotype)

don't even think of potato as a vegetable tbh tho.

if we were voting non-staple vegetables i might go asparagus

Tough choice between tomato (because of the perfect summer tomato sandwich) and onion (because there aren't many non-dessert things I make that don't start with me sweating onion and garlic in some olive oil).

ctl-f "collard"

...

wtf

YAMS but I almost picked eggplant

NickB & LocalGarda OTM, it's very quaint to pretend the answer isn't potato but POTATO.

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Onions and tomatoes are so useful, they'd be the hardest to do without.

i'd have happily included justin bieber as a vegetable if someone had nominated him tbh

chips are beyond reproach, roasties & creamy mash are incredible but only occasional treats. otherwise potatoes are no way near as useful, delicious or versatile as onions or toms, they are the wicked idol of the bland-palated sauce-denying ascetic

ctl-f "collard"

...

wtf

just vote mushy peas, everyone else is

Cucumber is the only one of these that I'll eat raw, fresh out of the garden. Plus they are handy in raitas and tzatziki. And tabouleh!

Corn was a very close runner-up - not only for it's cob variation, but also for it's ingenious use in such dishes as Fritos.

generously seasoned mashed potatoes, with sour cream and butter are pretty amazing for something so simple to prepare. Irish style mash with cabbage/leeks cooked in milk + butter, rules as well. But onions and tomatoes are so much more important to me.

Actually I think Welsh Rarebit is pretty amazing and underrated, and that incorporates all three of the best!

okra man

bhindi masala

shahi bhindi bhuna

i could also say hot peppers

Would have voted chiles w no hesitation, went w seaweed cuz underrated.

This poll is impossible. There is no such thing as a "best vegetable" in the singular. The entire category only makes sense in the plural.

I'm voting for artichokes. There are a bunch of vegetables on here that are totally essential, extremely versatile ingredients in many different dishes, like tomatoes and onions and various others. These are great vegetables that deserve appreciation.

Artichokes, OTOH, are not versatile or essential, but they are fun and exciting. Artichokes are special event vegetables that can elevate a meal to that next level. I like to think of them as the crab legs of the vegetable world.

a prune isn't really a vegetable

cabbage is a vegetable, makes it okay

I never use cabbage, but I want to try recreating the delicious Hungarian cabbage rolls we'd have at my grandparents' house.

Cuke

I voted correctly

was going to vote beetroot, but "onions" are kinda the foundation of all life. this is hard.

no bitter greens no credibility

as a fat delivery vehicle nothing beats aubergine cooked properly (in gallons of oil).

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

this is going to be fractious

Every year during asparagus season, I make certain to eat as much as I can. I never get tired of it, but then I have so little opportunity, since the season is only about two months here. I t was either asparagus or some workhorse vegetable that I eat three to five times a week in some form. I went with the much-adored, but less overexposed choice. But to tell the truth, I have a list of about twenty "favorite" vegetables, so my vote is bound to be a lie of omission.

DJP otm

Potato. Lame choice, I guess, but there's really no food as satisfying to me as fingerlings chopped, tossed with olive oil and seasoning/spices and roasted for 45 minutes.

Brussel sprouts, the roast Brussels sprouts with ponzu sauce I had for lunch were the best..

potato

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

Boring

THE RADISH ROBBED

Broccoli

hell yes. the underdog

There are some weird vegetable names in here. Mange tout? Summer squash? Whats wrong with snowpeas and zucchini.

And no pumpkin?

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These are possibly the worst poll results ever on ILX

strong showing for mushy peas

This is an outrage !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCq8XDgrP0

strong showing for mushy peas

justice was done here and you know it, you and tom d need to hang your heads

I stand with Noodle Vague and Tom D.

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you people are killing me

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When's yr birthday BG?

i wasn't born, i burst fully-formed from the collective unconscious of those heroes around the world who believe mushy peas are an abomination

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this is violence

Greetings non-born, brainwashed BG

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honest to fuck i'm gonna quit this place

EMBRACE THE PEA

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in conclusion, jeremy corbyn is now our prime minister

mushy peas lmao

Oh man I want faggots and peas for tea now

Next week: ILX DECIDES THE BEST SNACK: A POLL

Winner: a piece of plain white bread, thank you, maybe with a glass of water on the side for dipping

answer is obviously a big juicy heirloom tomato from the garden

Next week: ILX DECIDES THE BEST SNACK: A POLL

Winner: a piece of plain white bread, thank you, maybe with a glass of water on the side for dipping

why do u hate democracy

This is exactly why ILX polls need super-delegates.

Potatoes wtf

Are we living in the new great plague

This is like ketchup winning best condiment

I'm thinking the decisive factor here is that people who declare they hate all vegetables are still inclined to like potatoes.

Potato is the johnny cash of the vegetable kingdom

really wanna poll Should ILX Have Superdelegates, feel like that'd be a thread with plenty of action

russian shills on ilx confirmed

vodka is often made from potatoes. also poteen.

Potatoes wtf

Are we living in the new great plague

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:18 (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just metaphorical inches from famine here, yellow card imo

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And Cynar is made from artichokes.

Makes you think...

Not as much as artisans make me choke

wait i just found out why blighters are called blighters

mushy pea blight

It will never not be too soon

ron howard v

Ah classic

cucumber's way too low

Cucumber gets a pass because it can be made into gherkins, otherwise it can gtfo. Oh, but tzatziki... tbh would tzatziki be much different if it didn't have cucumber in it? I probably just like it because I fucking love garlic.

POX would have been a fairer structure.

past time to be fair to vegetables

won't somebody think of the cucumbers?

No

potato is not good for you

Hate speech

Wait why the fuck wasnt garlic in the list.

potatoes?? shouldn't have let ppl who don't like vegetables vote

I'm supposing taters win due to their versatility vis a vis other veg.

(but hey, I invite y'all to eat a fucking brussels sprout chip)

potato chips is not good for you

recommend kale chips

this entire debacle has just renewed my commitment to onions, radishes and cucumbers

potato chips is not good for you

I propose I could eat upwards of a dozen potato chips without suffering lasting harm.

daily?

if you have to vote for a potato, at least vote for sweet potato

also when i have a bag of potato chips around me I tend to eat all of them the same day I open it, no matter how big the bag ... salt is like crack

when i have a bag of potato chips around me I tend to eat all of them the same day I open it

then my conclusion is that maybe potato chips is not good for you. for me, maybe they're ok.

A weighted poll would've been interesting to see. I'd like to think spinach would've placed much higher but then 5 people voted mushy peas so I'm kinda losing my grip on reality here.

Sweet potato got a cheat in this poll as well - its in here thrice! AFAIC, sweet potato, yam and kumara are basically the same thing.

Real yams are not widely cultivated outside of Polynesia. All the produce labeled "yams" in grocery stores in the USA are variants of sweet potatoes. The growers petitioned the USDA to call some sweet potato varieties "yams" because they sounded more exotic and sold better.

What? Yams mostly come from Africa not Polynesia?

Yam truthers itt

death to false yams

There are different kinds of yam - the Polynesian one is Purple Yam (which is the one eaten in the West Indies and US iirc). The one eaten in Africa and Europe is White Yam.

They are both "real yams" though, and African yams are produced in much greater quantities than Polynesian yams (according to Wikipedia anyway)

Americans and NZers (and apparently Australians) also call sweet potatoes "yams" which is what Trayce was talking about I guess.

The NZ "yam" sweet potato is called "oca" though - there's an option in the poll "oka" which doesn't seem to exist, so maybe that's an alternate spelling, and so Trayce's point still stands about sweet potato appearing multiple times.

itt: yammering

honestly this should have been a ballot poll. potato will reign always in a pick-one poll because potato goes well with practically anything and if you've ever been poor probably you've gone through whole seasons where in the absence of potatoes it would've been super hard times. potato would probably not win a ballot poll because it would be ranked people's third or fourth favorite vegetable but if you ask people to just pick one vegetable then many of them are going to do the reasonable thing and say "yes, asparagus is delicious, and guess what I can't live on for weeks at a time if it comes down to it, asparagus, I'm voting potato, long life to the anti-potato crew but be real"

lol at everyone mon-morn quarterbacking this poll

bg called it to kill mushy peas off dead and he failed and now he is teresa may staring down the mocking barrel of history

the absolute pea

what ilx needs more than ever is certainty. potatoes have secured the largest number of votes in this entirely fair and democratic poll, and despite the devisive rhetoric we have seen from some quarters in recent days, it is clear that going forward ilx must accept potatoes as the best vegetable

also, fuck mushy peas

thank you

Let's try again with the ballot poll and see if we can get mushy peas to number one >:)

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^^ this thread

I had mushy peas for tea last night, in honour of this poll

if you've ever been poor probably you've gone through whole seasons where in the absence of potatoes it would've been super hard times

understated

mushy peas would've stood more of a chance if they'd just joined with their snow pea and mangetout comrades on a pea unity ticket. they all lost out through being divided, no-one likes split peas.

exact same story for the sw3eet potato/yam crew.

they all lost out through being divided, no-one likes split peas.

get out

i guess like james ingram said, you should've just had yam or pea there

HUGE GOLF CLAP

Veggie Sticks
(potato snacks)

I made some Bombay style potatoes yesterday, they were boiled in their skins, fried in butter with mustard seeds/cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, onions, tomatoes + extra hot Caribbean curry powder + loads of spices etc. Damn, it was so nice I'm doing it again today.

I want to try that. Is there a recipe online you use?

I can't remember what recipe I started with. But I boil some reasonable sized potatoes in their skins for half an hour. Cube them after they have cooled. Fry the Mustard seeds/Cumin seeds in massive slab of butter, then add potatoes, onions and spices. Sorry I'm no good at this! I bet Suzy has a killer recipe.

that sounds more like onions and tomatoes and garlic with potatoes in it.

why don't you try the recipe four more times and leave out a different vegetable each time, then tell us which one seems most crucial.

No results found for "bombay mushy peas"

I have a can of chickpeas at home and now I have an idea

it's a collaborative effort, as the garlic, onions and tomatoes shrink and dissipate into the potatoes - they become an important part of it, but not necessarily the star attraction!

That basically was a recipe?

xposts

I suppose it was an attempt. Also add Turmeric, Cayenne Pepper and some ground Cumin. Is what I usually do. And I find going irresponsibly apeshit with the butter makes it much unhealthier and tastier.

tombot hardmanning calzino's cooking is one of the more unexpected turns this godforsaken thread has taken

calzino is right - that recipe is specific to potatoes - you could try it with another starchy veg like yuca or something but only the intrepid potato will meet the acid of the tomato & the sting of the onion head-on, laughing, its face to the wind announcing - I am the potato - I have the gumption to weather storms in which my brethren vegetables wilt - fuck the haters, eat some taters

potato will reign always in a pick-one poll because potato goes well with practically anything and if you've ever been poor probably you've gone through whole seasons where in the absence of potatoes it would've been super hard times

i don't know, during my shitty college days when i was learning how to feed myself i pretty much lived on quinoa and lentils, and even though i appreciate those foods and will gladly eat them on occasion to this day, i'm not going to pick them in any poll because 64% of my body was made out of lentils at some point and i've had enough for a lifetime. i imagine those who went the potato route during financial hardships might feel the same way!

i guess this comes down to whether or not we were voting for the one vegetable that we'd want to pick as a practical matter, day-in and day-out, or if we were voting for the vegetable that stands out as especially delicious compared to others for a single meal. like the great ILX reality cooking series, and the special food group for one episode is "vegetable", and you have to choose something from the ingredients in the poll to wow the judges (who, in a cruel twist, is just guy fieri). in that case, even guy fieri is going to be disappointed in "potato" unless you dumb bbq sauce all over it or something

weird typo with dumb and dump there due to the presence of the words guy fieri earlier in the sentence

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beautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.

Some of these online recipes that google throws up are so bad. Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

depends what it is

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thanks for the extra detail calzino.

Essential thread feels like 2012 in here

if by that you mean the apocalypse predicted by the mayans then yeah i cannot disagree

fuck forgot to vote

Specifically tombot hardmanning shadows and jclc writing heroic fiction about vegetables

sorry JMM, my recipe was a bit of a fudge, and jclc's honeyed classicism puts me to shame! I'd put about of inch cube of grated ginger and 6 or 7 cloves of garlic in there, is something I should have added.

Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced.

I use a garlic press usually, which probably has the same effect as a microplane, and have never noticed this effect! I'm down with Maunika Gowardhan when it comes to garlic, don't be shy, 6 or 7 cloves will do.

beautifully summary there, Owen. hmph! these onion people can be a bit pungent, sometimes.

thank you! nb I am not Owen though we are buds, I am his fatter brother from below the northern border

Garlic Poll: More or less, and is William C's bad garlic science a 1st world construct. Where do you stand on this very important question, JCLC?

man that is a huge question. for several years I ate no onions or garlic at all -- as you might imagine, this has resulted in a very intense love for both. still I do think there are places where garlic can be overdone - there's a right quantity in a sauce, unless it's specifically a Garlic Sauce.

but like if it's a Thai dish like Eggs with Crispy Garlic, basically quadruple the amount in the recipe, you will not say "oh no there's too much of this incredible crispy garlic." If you're roasting vegetables, nobody's going to see "you've ruined this by roasting too many garlic cloves to mushy, melting, caramelized brown perfection."

I missed William C's postulate somebody refresh me

"Putting one clove of garlic into something, surely makes no discernible difference.

Depends on how you prep it. One clove grated with a fine grater or microplane = the garlic punch of 5-6 cloves sliced/minced."

No disrespect to William C, because I like his movie posts a lot. But I'm not buying this outright lying and unbelievable, minimalist garlic propaganda!

The facts are on my side, you science denier.

I'd hesitate to gainsay wmc but ..... it is not my experience that the thing he says is in fact so

hmm, ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Kptp6u4JQ

crispy garlic eh? how does one do this without burning it and getting that bitter taste?

brussells sprouts and broccoli voters = disgusting savages imo

veg otm

beets+cheese. So many permutations. Or maybe just two v good ones.

beets + a blue-veined cheese is ace!

Hannah sent me a recipe for mushy pea guacamole yesterday

That sounds terrible

wrong

Wasnt there some "OMG HERESY!!!!!1" thing about pea guac doing the internet rounds about a year back?

kale's the best

i hate cooking but i will sautee kale with onions

brussell sprouts are disgusting

yes, to some people. but somehow they all get eaten anyway by others, like me.

Wasnt there some "OMG HERESY!!!!!1" thing about pea guac doing the internet rounds about a year back?

yeah, and it was otm

potato-based guac or gtfo

respect the poll!

a lot of people didn't vote potato and we should respect their views too, which is why i'm campaigning for a soft vegxit

soft vegxit in a can, no, hear me out

did the idea for mushy pea guacamole idea have it's origin story in that, possibly apocryphal, Mandelson in a Hartlepool chippy incident?

i dunno, the one Han showed me was some kind of Tex Mex-ified fish and chips recipe from a Slimming World calendar

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Never got around to voting, but quite happy with the broccoli/sprouts/cauliflower/cabbage/cavolo species defeating the potato by 15 votes to 9.

move over potato, there's a new tot in town

mmm, salty!

When my food-obsessive Israeli father-in-law got into the low-carb diet, he once went on a deathly serious rant about potatoes, to the effect of "The potato is a KILLER! It is a carb BOMB! NEVER eat potatoes! Never!" The way he pronounced killer "KEE-lehr" still rings in my ears.

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mods pls delete this ^^^ before dmac sees it

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I can't get past calling someone a food obsessive tbh

Like

Is there an organism that isn't.....?

?

great job mods, cheers

Oh food, yeah I can take it or leave it, whatever *dies quickly*

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there's the soylent folk

and everyone else

Was that

Was that an Irish accent attempt at 'silent fuck'?

should have been 'fook'

I see that a lot

It's wrong

That's a Manchester accent

We say fuck

ta fook you say

Seriously we say fuck

I mean I know this to be true we say it a lot

I submit to your natural authority regarding this fact.

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Chilling

Is there an organism that isn't.....?
...
Oh food, yeah I can take it or leave it, whatever *dies quickly*

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Some tardigrades can withstand temperatures down to 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) (close to absolute zero) while others can withstand 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C)[12] for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.[13] They can go without food or water for more than 30 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce.

Looks fuckin delicious

that li'l mouth on the tardigrade always looks like an aux jack to me, like it's a squidgy mp3 player designed by david cronenberg

TardigRadeS

should have been 'fook'

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 8:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I see that a lot

It's wrong

That's a Manchester accent

We say fuck

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 8:32 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ta fook you say

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 8:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seriously we say fuck

I mean I know this to be true we say it a lot

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 8:52 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I submit to your natural authority regarding this fact.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

First thing that popped in my head when you started talking about Irish people saying 'fuck':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8&feature=youtu.be&t=1m3s

Fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8&feature=youtu.be&t=1m3s

Last try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

This carrot looks.. as if it wants to be an astronaut so badly pic.twitter.com/AUKIMPF6nT

— ✝ (@Baelitt) September 18, 2017

God, I wish someone had voted for some space carrots