ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group F (Hippies United Against Humanity group)

tomatoes v ice cream is really hard!

watermelon or lamb is the choosing between my two kids decision of the tournament so far

watermelon is kind of bullshit imo. THERE, I SAID IT.

bet you hate cucumber too

i don't! watermelons never taste like anything. could do without melons in general tbrr.

maybe we should just call you lamb-shoe

ha i do totally love lamb. it features heavily in the regional cooking of the region of india my parents are from. i'm, like, genetically programmed to find it delicious.

Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Spinach, Lamb

lentils fucking suck, HARD choice here actually but im taking it as just a tomato being a tomato so went w/variety, spinach is one of the best foods ever (although wait did broccoli get cut because if so SHAKING MY FIST AT YOU WMC), lamb only thx to middle eastern context and watermelon is ehhhh whatever

xpost 100% agree w/horsehoe re: melons. bleh and boring. cucumbers OTOH are the fucking shit and i love them

Lentils, Tomatoes, Savoury Pies, Lamb

this wasn't hard for me - the one I'm particularly adamant about is Tomatoes - goddamn I love tomatoes

feel like you guys have never eaten watermelon properly, I welcome you to my house

once i made watermelon margaritas and they were delicious but they mostly tasted like tequila and lime and salt.

Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Savory Pies, Lamb

Watermelon haters, I wish you could all come to my house RIGHT NOW, I have a back yard full of amazing melons. AND I'M ALLERGIC TO THEM.

LJ OTM IN THIS THREAD

i don't think i've taken longer than like 2 seconds to vote in any of these.

anyway, JJ and horseshoe are also on it---watermelon is fun, but w/e. cucumbers are like eating water. but in the best possible way.

omg that is tragic as hell :(

http://www.clivespies.co.uk/products/pies/greek-lentil/images/cp_products_image.jpg

^ lentils + pies :)

ice cream is babby foods---tomatoes uber alles

i think you have an anti-sweet-food bias! but yeah, tomatoes are so good.

honestly hate sweets

Lentils, tomatoes, spinach, watermelon. Even if I did eat meat, I think it makes sense to choose the ones that offer more versatility to your diet instead of a particular dish like hot dog whose removal would narrow it only a little.

wow tbh i didn't even realize that spinach was the contender against savory pies. i love spinach!

but not enough.

spinach vs savory pies is giving me a heartache
love both so much

haven't voted yet, gotta let it simmer

simmering will favor spinach tbh

Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Spinach, Watermelon

savory pies can contain spinach, so i'll go for that even though i love raw spinach A LOT and eat it almost every day
could not care less about lamb or watermelon, so voted Lentils, Tomatoes, Savory Pies, Watermelon

hahaha dude if there is a food that demonstrates the definition of "versatility" it is the hot dog. just ask upton sinclair

xpost to tuomas

also feeling RONG about kneejerk spinach vote but ehhh idk i love it lots

here's what you do with a watermelon; don't cut it into salices, instead, cut it in half and then use a long knife and cut that shit into big raectangular cubes, scoop em out with a spoon. If you got a nice juicy sweet melon, put one of them cubes in your mouth, just crush on it, let all that sweet juice run into your gullet, maybe chill it first if the day is really hot

for lamb, go to inner Mongolia, they'll do you right

^^^i have a quest

Watermelon is good because it gives another excuse to add ginger to food.

Hang on, why didn't I nom ginger?

here's what you do with a watermelon; don't cut it into salices, instead, cut it in half and then use a long knife and cut that shit into big raectangular cubes, scoop em out with a spoon. If you got a nice juicy sweet melon, put one of them cubes in your mouth, just crush on it, let all that sweet juice run into your gullet, maybe chill it first if the day is really hot

I am literally crying here -- FOOD ALLERGIES ARE WHY I HAD TO REJECT GOD!!!!

3van, you and I have agreed on most things so far I think! We must do lunch one day.

Ice-cream is great and all, but cmon guys it's not food, it's light entertainment

i love melon! i just don't love watermelon. it's alright. better than lamb, which (even as a carnivore) i like better alive.

wmc, if you want an effective watermelon substitute you could always dribble some sugar water over a waxed sponge. serve and enjoy.

how can anyone vote against ice cream?

ok deal i will be in london sometime soon

xp oh shiiiiiit

how can anyone vote against ice cream?

― sarahel, Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:08 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark

because they are adults

jjj, YOU ARE CRAZY AS HAIL

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/foodfightbracket1.jpg

Ice-cream is great and all, but cmon guys it's not food, it's light entertainment

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what does this even mean?

xps lol i am so enraged by dumb boys underrating ice cream right now

i'm probably going to vote tomatoes but ice cream is adult food, for god's sake

http://10.media.tumblr.com/CdB6eSjcdn74caamO6SnqJkxo1_400.gif

who's going to murder who now >:[

A bad tomato is a real disappointment, and also quite common. A bad ice cream is not near as common!

<D

i like ice cream, but i could not/would rather not live without tomatoes
living without ice cream is no big deal

how can anyone vote against ice cream?

I love ice cream, but I can live without it. Tomatoes, otoh, are such an essential building block of my diet I dunno what I'd do if they didn't exist.

(x-post with la lechera)

ok deal i will be in london sometime soon

really? neat!

sorry horseshoe. I really honestly do love ice-cream, but I think of it as a nice treat, an indulgence, whereas tomatoes are an absolutely staple part of most cooking I truly love, and I can eat the small ones like popcorn - tomato-laden bruschetta is just...amazing, a full meal and a healthy one

:D

tho why the heck is everyone hyphenating ice cream

Lentils, but I suspect my reasons for that vote all fall within 'curry', ice cream (though no real preference), with pies and lamb being ABSOLUTELY no contest.

aw it's okay LJ; food-related rage is the best of rages

As you will be discovering if French Fries beat Crepes :D

btw I voted for tomatoes but let ire be known that I actually voted for ketchup

despicable

^^^^

this is really shaking up my "ilxors i admire" bracket

Ketchup is just wrong, man.

LJ - you are the only here who thinks that crepes have any chance at all of beating fries.

Wow, Dyao went there

I still read "crepe" as "creep(y guy)" even in a food context.

There was this one-month period this year where I was making crepes once a day, sometimes more, but I still voted for fries.

yall can Heinz 51 me

WIth relish

i love fries, and would have eagerly voted fries against things like spinach, kebabs, watermelon - but crepes - i just couldn't do it.

No, the lyric is "Hot Dog, Jumping Frog, Albuquerque".

hot dogs, because lentils are evil
tomatoes, because they are the best food ever
voted savory pies, but yuck
laaamb

dyao i hope you insist on heinz ketchup because anything else is an abomination

yeah it's Heinz or go home

Hot Dogs vs. Lentils -- hmmm, ground up pig snouts and linoleum vs. lentils. I like hot dogs, and have had some great bunned-up sausages, but lentils in this round.

Tomatoes vs. Ice Cream -- this is like Sophie's Choice or something. Ice cream is heaven (and I live where Blue Bell is de rigeur), but the amazing variety of heirloom tomatoes wins it. Bonus points for growing my own.

Spinach vs. Savory Pies -- kinda tough choice, not really committed to either one...spinach

Watermelon vs. Lamb -- love the flavor of watermelon, can't eat it. Love lamb, can it it LOTS.

Voted Lentils, Ice Cream, Spinach, Lamb, even though I maybe only eat ice cream once a year. (Used to eat Haagan Dasz coffee ice cream first thing in the morning, back in the late '90s, though.) I pretty much eat spinach (raw, as a salad) every day these days. Love lamb; just never cook it because I haven't figured out how/where to buy it. Like lentils if they're there. Doubt I'll ever want to eat watermelon or a hot dog again; tomatoes I mostly try to avoid because the acid messes with my stomach.

lentils. ice cream. spinach. watermelon.

these were all easy for me except the last, because i only like watermelon occasionally, but i don't meat so it's kind of a default win. (love tomatoes, but vs. ice cream? c'mon.)

and tbh, if the choice were limited to "tomatoes straight out of the garden," it would be harder. but yr average tomato is of such suspect quality, even vs. yr average ice cream, that the whole category is degraded.

lentils tomatoes savory pies lamb

tomatoes vs. ice cream - HOW 2 CHOOSE??? both such excellent summertime delights. But tomatoes add wonderfulness to pot roasts and beans and pasta sauces and go so well w/ fresh mozzarella and basil.

spinach is very meh, there are better greens.

WMc -- Blue Bell and watermelons -- you're in the Brazos valley????

ha, no -- northeast MS

Hot dogs, tomatoes, savory pies, lamb.

HOT DOGS > lentils: Always think of myself as liking lentils but whenever I actually make them I feel bored. Not gonna lie, my vote here is actually for beanie weenie.

TOMATOES > ice cream. Seemed hard until I really thought about it. Of the really amazingly delicious things humankind can do with huge amounts of dairy fat, 90% are cheese. And some of the rest is butter. Ice cream relies too much on sugar and I just don't hold it in the same regard, as much as I enjoy it. Tomatoes, on the other hand -- I buy about 10 lbs a week all summer long and still I'm always running out. There is nothing you can't do with a tomato.

LAMB > watermelon. Really like both. But lamb is the best red meat while watermelon is no higher than second among melons and is probably tied with cantaloupe, well behind honeydew. On the other side, watermelon is really incredible with feta and mint. But so is lamb!

if it helps u decide, "ice cream" should include coconut milk ice cream, which pwns tomatoes in every orifice

i went vegan with this one

dunno how m bison takes his ice cream, weird

ot gonna lie, my vote here is actually for beanie weenie.

hahaha, aaaaagh

hot dogs, ice cream, spinach, watermelon

dunno how m bison takes his ice cream, weird

― iatee, Saturday, July 24, 2010 7:39 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

osmosis

we have 2.5 gallons of ice cream in various freezers in the house iirc

Hot dogs like frankfurter weird sausages or like proper sausages in a hot dog roll - or a baguette, if you want to take it up a gear? This is U&K.

If you need a sausage in a baguette for it to win your vote, just go with lentils. Hot dogs will do just fine.

Lentils, Ice Cream, Savory Pies, Lamb

Let me not speak ill of hot dogs so as not to distract you from the godhead that is green lentils + onion & olive oil, plus lardons i.e. BACON: an Auvergnian delight that will rearrange your world. Adding a bit of jambon d'Auvergne is typical & nice too but really the heart is there without it. & lentil soup for me is ultimate comfort food. If I went veg I'd eat lentils daily: packed with protein, as close to meat as plants get.

yeesh yeah a good tomato, bursting with juice, is decadent, like sex in food; but they're only that way for a few weeks a year. Whereas ice cream in the midwest USA, or gelato in Italy, or dondurma in Turkey, is excellent year-round.

lamb over watermelon b/c there's a lot of mediocre watermelon around: if they're really fresh, they can be great. The seeds are pretty annoying though. & lamb is fab.

my first vegan round as well. huhh

I still want to try calamari and watermelon salad.

http://eastvillagekitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/crw_8176.jpg

I would suffer an itchy mouth and swollen airway for that.

Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Spinach, Lamb

Most lentils (except in some Indian food contexts) are pretty unpleasant to me. I love Hot Dogs, especially Chicago style and I love pretty much everything on the menu at Frank in Austin.

Ice Cream vs Tomatoes is difficult. I love both, but these days I have a lot more Ice Cream. Yummy, but my ass ain't getting much smaller.

Savory Pies? Is this some kind of British thing? Don't many of these pies have spinach in them? I don't know, maybe I like savory pies, maybe not. I know that do love creamed spinach and it's one of the few things that I can cook well.

I chose lamb, but I wasn't very passionate about this choice.

WmC I think you have the most heartbreaking allergy next to maybe being allergic to hugs, or haircuts.

It is frustrating. There are a couple of foods that I've sort of conned myself into thinking I don't like, when the reality is that they're delicious but kick up an allergic reaction. And just about everything I'm allergic to, I'm only allergic to it raw -- if it's cooked, I can eat it all day.

It's actually much less severe than it used to be! I can actually eat a half cup or so of melon chunks before the itching starts now. The first time I ate watermelon I was eight or so, and my mom thought she was going to have to take me to the E.R.

Re Ice Cream:

About a year ago, in the darker days of the economic downturn, Safeway reduced the amount of ice cream in its containers from 2 quarts to 1.5 quarts, yet kept the price the same ($2.99 in my area). Anyway, I was shopping today and noticed that Safeway had brought back the 2 quart size container of ice cream! With a sign that reads "NEW LARGER SIZE" on the packaging! And it costs $3.69!

kkvgz - how does that compare in price to a pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs?

PORK PIE

http://polandian.home.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pork_pie.jpg

that is all

wasn't it mentioned before - maybe in another thread - that savory pies also include empanadas and calzones?

i could go without ice cream even though i like it a lot. if you choose it over tomatoes you are weird. i don't even know what savory pies are but they sound gross and "savory" is one of my least favorite words.

would a samosa count as a savory pie? i believe it would, right?

pot pies, samosas, empanadas, quiche, calzone, hot pocket, etc

some of the most delicious foods ever! <3 samosas & empanadas

those are good but not better than spinach. also "savory," ew.

but some of them have spinach in them! it's a win-win for spinach! I like the word "savory" it sounds like "savvy" and "saving" - both very good things!

Empanadas and pasties yes, calzones no. Calzones are pizza.

Hot Dogs, Tomatoes, Savory Pies, Lamb

I don't like to think about how hot dogs are created. As far as I can tell, it involves squishing chicken remains through a squishing machine, and forming the resultant sludge into sausage shapes. anyway, fuck it, they add enough salt for it to be tasty. Lentils are nice and healthy and worthy and whatever, but hot dogs are total easy comfort food, perfect for L and I having hangovers & having to feed the nestlings with minimum effort.

Tomatoes. this is a close one because tomatoes basically fill lots of roles, for which they get very little credit. the john o'shea of food. ice cream hurts my fucking teeth, although is quite tasty with mint and choc chip. very fresh toms and basil and olive oil trump that though. just.

Savoury Pies. Pies to savour. I love spinach. I really really love spinach. Saag Paneer- fucking hell, that stuff is amazing. I considered a mutiny at this point. How dare you pitch spinach against pies, WmC, you bastard. Pie is my favourite food. I stanned for it to be included, I have been arguing with iatee about it over the last few days, I maintain that there is no greater food than good pie. I feel as if i want to be a pie evangelist, and tour America with beautiful and yummy pies, telethon pies, talking in tongues pies, pies PIES pies PIES I love pies. I don't have a scanner but one of the Jamie )Oliver books has a picture of Chicken And Leek Pie which is better than any of your American PORN. ok, no I do not get aroused by pie. but I do like it a hell of a lot.

Lamb. duh.

you're not supposed to bite ice cream!

Savoury Pies versus Spinach was for you what Pizza versus Olives was for me, by the looks of it - all great but siding with the dish rather than the raw foodstuff

chicken remains? chickens are like the only animal not in hot dogs!

it involves squishing chicken remains through a squishing machine

actually pork and beef mostly, but chicken/turkey dogs are making inroads

xp

Chicken is the no. 1 ingredient in the cheap-ass hot dogs my mom always bought, Bar S.

crazy

okay I only eat kosher hot dogs anyway

the john o'shea of food

<3

Pies are as iconic and sacred as food gets in these parts. As respectable as spinach is, a loss for the humble pie just doest bear thinking about. Com on mongs, help a sheepfuxor brother out.

IN LOVING MEMORY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Pie

Hot Dogs, Tomatoes, Spinach, Watermelon

by far the toughest round. other than hot dogs vs. lentils, neither of which i really care about. but hot dogs = good/nasty american summer food, so that.

tomatoes beat almost any food on the planet, but man i'm struggling vs. ice cream. like cheese or bread, ice cream's a kind of miracle, like food from the world beyond. but really just a treat, not essential to cuisine in general, so has to go.

spinach vs. savory pie is anther weird, tough call. if i were english, i suppose i'd go the other way. but i'm not. i never eat savory pie, delicious as it is. and i eat a LOT of spinach. so that.

god and watermelon vs. lamb... i've already given up ice cream, you can't ask me to give up watermelon, too. and i guess i could just live with like beef and pork and venison, etc. sob.

Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Spinach, Lamb

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

oh fuck tomatoes have lost

whither ILX

o

ICE CREAM FTW!!!!

hahaha spinach beat savoury pies?! how do we decide ties

this has offended me far, far more than the crepe/fries result

this is repulsive and you all suck

What the hell were you thinking, ilx?

how are we gonna resolve these ties???

whichever food has more calories wins is what Dan suggested in the nomination thread

that shortchanges excellent competitors like limes though!

will it be bacon vs pizza?

Hot Dogs 78 > Lentils 56
Ice Cream 75 > Tomatoes 59
Spinach 72 > Savory Pies 62
Lamb 72 > Watermelon 62

easily the worst result

R.I.P. Watermelon.

ice cream over tomatoes is a travesty

lentilllllls

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
worst results of all

http://www.nimbi.com/copyright/william_blake_the_lamb.jpg

Can't believe you guys would rather eat this than watermelon.

Hot Dogs 78 > Lentils 56
Ice Cream 75 > Tomatoes 59
Spinach 72 > Savory Pies 62
Lamb 72 > Watermelon 62

this is like ilx's collective confession that it wouldn't know how to eat if you sent it specifically to a How To Eat school

exception made for spinach, justice was served there

Hot dogs and ice cream aren't even proper food, ya disgusting savages!

anyone who voted ice cream over tomatoes does not cook and does not deserve to eat

and yeah, slightly, partially molified by spinach justice

savages

the lot of you

spinach over savory pies is dumb & I'd had more time to spend around here I'd have lobbied stronger for savory pies on the basis of the mighty salteña, nem, and jambon en croûte. Tears in rain.

Yeah I mean spinach can even be a savoury pie component. You could have had both you idiots!

you cannot have fresh spinach as savory pie component. nor something simple as sauteed/steamed spinach, chopped or not, with fat & garlic or not. mushroom pie is awesome, but i never eat it and would happily make the sacrifice just so i could order gomae at sushi joints.

Except if you like spinach in other ways too, not just in pies.

(x-post)

SPINACH OVER PIES? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

who eats "savory pies" for crissakes? i am not a dickens novel.

Pretty sure The Dickwit Papers would fit the bill.

zing

oliver twat

SPINACH OVER PIES? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

^^

Yeah, that's probably the result that hurts the most.

ign'rance, that's what it is, pure savoury pie ign'rance.

i urge any US ilxors who find themselves in this country to buy a simple melton mowbray pork pie, availble from any reputable supermarket chain.

spinach over pies loooooooooooooooooool

ilx's own personal 9/11

I almost felt bad about voting for spinach over pies because my dad used to cook us pasties, but I eat spinach everyday.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Pasty2.jpg

i ate a giant bowl of spinach (and tomatoes!) tonite, how can i deny???

stupid pies, how i hate u

disgusting fucking savages.

this really bears repeating

Spinach and tomatoes...yeah, that sounds so good.

almost feel bad about the result, sorta wish british pies were gonna still be around...these threads just won't be the same without savory pie...

tom one day we'll get together and start a savory pie/burrito cultural exchange program

There's going to be a delay on the north and south polls because we're going out to the movies tonight...so I'll make it up by giving east and west a head start. They'll go up momentarily.

these are WAY more fun than the music polls

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^x1,000,000

ok wow

i have been staying away from these cuz they seem like too much work

but wtf happened here

oh wow didnt realize it was a 3-way tie haha

xps stfu

haha, I just mean I have no bizarre emotional attachment to, say, lentils

these are WAY more fun than the music polls

― measuring of the waist (HI DERE),

XD

I take all the credit.

No, wait, I give it all to Aero Smith.

oh and you don't have a bizarre emotional attachment to ANYONE ON THE MUSIC POLL

um that's my entire point

oh I didn't see the 'no'

was wondering what it was about lentils

I think what makes them so fun is that you can vote totally without guilt? Like, I have no way of making an informed vote on Can vs Biggie or whatever, I just don't have the musical knowledge, but pizza? That is a thing that I have eaten.

literally every single result in this poll was wrong (except maybe lamb v. watermelon).

guys i <3 spinach long time, but wtf ever there are other leafy greens i am willing to substitute if it means i can still have savory pie

if the music poll made at least one person feel guilty, I guess I can consider it a job well done

guys i <3 spinach long time, but wtf ever there are other leafy greens i am willing to substitute if it means i can still have savory pie

enjoy your kaleakopita

if the music poll made at least one person feel guilty, I guess I can consider it a job well done

I felt guilty about digging so many people who like a lot of boring music if that's what you mean

but just hang on a minute here, can you imagine a spanakopita made with mustard greens instead of spinach? I think I just had a life changing moment.

you're a lou reed stan! xp

the boring result of that poll is making me reconsider some of my options here. bye-bye bacon.

but just hang on a minute here, can you imagine a spanakopita made with mustard greens instead of spinach? I think I just had a life changing moment.

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:33 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

see what i am talking about

(i actually can't decide if that would be gross or not)

It sounds absolutely amazing to me, but I love mustard above all other greens.

but just hang on a minute here, can you imagine a spanakopita made with mustard greens instead of spinach? I think I just had a life changing moment.

wow actually yeah. although mrs. smith is a mild-flavored-dishes enthusiast & loves spanakopita & would probably be all "what have you done to this light and lovely dish you disgusting savage"

I HAVE to try that this fall when the greens are ready to pick. Never mind that I've never made spanakopita in my life.

it's not that hard, just a lot of phyllo and butter and layering

yeah i think i've made it like twice (for a LOT of people) and it was pretty easy