ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One Tiebreakers -- vote fast or forever hold your pickle

Round Two polls will go up tomorrow night after tiebreaker poll closes.

berries, peaches. runny fruit juice exploding in your mouth. so refreshing and healthy. not like greasy fatty stodgy meat product. nature's gifts to the human palate. pluck them from the tree. sink your teeth in. you are communing with Hera

I am the anti-jagger in this poll

hera always seemed like kind of like a vengeful bitch I dunno if that's the best way to sell these things

burritos - so refreshing and healthy. not like some runny fruit juice exploding in your mouth. nature's gift to the human palate. pluck them from the mexican place down the street. sink your teeth in. you are communicating with Huitzilopochtli.

Berries, Peaches

Like I said in the other threads -- no burritos? OK, I still have tacos. No ribs? OK, I still have pulled pork.

like i said in the other threads, no burritos? OK, I still have tacos. No peaches? OK I still have apricots and nectarines.

xxpost -- channelling TIM at KFC.EDU there

people who pick berries are morally bad people

^^ just denigrated all of california

Yeah, burritos take berries for sure. I've found that berries are the fruit most likely to grow mold on them in your fridge. Peaches however, mold medium status notwithstanding, are so tasty and juicy. They're also grown on beautiful trees

http://thundafunda.com/2/traveling-pictures-tourism/download/Peach%20Tree%20Orchard%20in%20Full%20Bloom,%20Lancaster,%20California.jpg

whereas ribs are grown on a pig

http://www.elated.co.za/images/pig4cuddle.jpg.

Do you really want to eat that? They're smarter than dogs you know!

haha dyao

A peach that smart, you can't eat it all at once.

the pig on the bottom of the pile knows what's up - i.e. would eat the ribs of the other pigs

berries peaches here.

berries and peaches, if i could only eat ribs and burritos i would barf all the time

but your barf would taste like delicious ribs and burritos

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/8/10059282_ab27962eb2.jpg

BURRITOS. PEACHES. 4EVA.

Who's Eva?

hard to vote against burritos but let us consider:

blueberries
raspberries
gooseberries
elderberries
blackberries
marionberries
grapes

moreover, despair not, those who with me mourn the loss of the watermelon. botanically speaking, "berries" are any fleshy fruit produced of a single ovary. that means that, should berries win, both watermelon & tomatoes are back in. nb this is only true if you're willing to be a pedantic dick about stuff but I am perfectly willing to to be a pedantic dick for the love of tomatoes.

blueberries are my all time favorite food - easily - but I'm averaging the berries into a 'mixed berry' concept, and burritos def beat that.

I feel at this point you simply can't be polite anymore, time to rig the polls

http://www.specialtyproduce.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/golden-raspberries-1024x709.jpg

how can you average your all time favorite food into an aggregate

incomprehensible

cause it's part of a GROUP

that means that, should berries win, both watermelon & tomatoes are back in.

This is URGENT AND KEY SCIENCE that our man has dropped here, folks

if it were blueberries vs. burritos it would be very clear what I'd be voting for - and I'd be voting for blueberries. but instead I am considering this 'average burrito meal' vs 'average berry-themed meal'

when considering the average burrito meal, consider every burrito made in the landmass that is eurasia

blueberries are the best

I think I voted ribs in the original poll, but I'm switching my vote to peaches. Ribs taste great, but I really hate eating greasy food with my fingers.

yeah but I don't consider those 'burritos'

but you are voting blueberries vs. burritos, because if burritos win, blueberries are gone - if this were politics, you would be the one arguing my formulation here, like, quite passionately iirc

berries and peaches make me happy; burritos and ribs make me feel sick

all four are delicious, but only two of these things never hurt my stomach
BERRIES AND PEACHES

i like that all of them are eaten with fingers though. i love eating with my hands.

burritos, ribs. i try to only eat fruit when it is forced through a tube into my veins by a doctor

BACON AND CHEESE AND HOAGIES

+ lj is right. the existence of the feared British Burrito deals 75 damage to burritos in a line, applies -15% Base damage and -4 Armor to all burritos

gross (xp to jjj)

what food isn't made in england at all? clearly that is the true winner

somehow i bet that the british burrito is in fact in many ways a heavily armored food xxpost

what food isn't made in england at all? clearly that is the true winner

chicken fried steak already lost ;_;

lj you have now been made aware that the burrito is not served in a hard taco shell yes? in case that is messing up your vote

applies -15% Base damage and -4 Armor to all burritos

not assuming belly-flab can stop a melee weapon better than muscle?

I've had a burrito in its proper folded package - p nice but nothing like a roadside berry exploding upon one's tongue

also lol, the British Burrito is totally lethal and has been known to pierce medium-sized tanks

does it have chutney in it

if I did screennames I would consider 'roadside berry exploding upon one's tongue'

or is that reserved for your "tacos" xpost

"British Burrito" was Thatcher's nickname for a couple of years until the hit squads put that one down, right?

is there something particularly explosive about british berries, cause you keep going on on that

until the phrase "roadside berry exploding upon one's tongue" showed up here i had always assumed that england did not have late night rest stops or truck stops

i like to learn

belly flab reduces damage dealt by British Burrito attack it's true but even a level 20 Mage can't cast British Burrito Immunity, there's no such spell

when you next visit Britain I'm totally hitting you with anti-personnel sloes

oh wait you obv play using AD&D rules, this is prob whats causing a lot of the confusion here xpost

this is just to say

I have eaten
the burritos
that were in
the lexan

and which
you were probably
saving
for the party

Forgive me
they were delicious
so bur
and rito

berriam tacos berriams

what were the burritos doing in the lexan ;_;

this has been real y'guys

this thread may be my last chance to use this as a pun

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/03/10/1/342/3425287/428da0f4499d6030_Franck_Ribery.jpg

what were the burritos doing in the lexan ;_;

when I worked in restaurants we called the big metal or plastic boxes that stored lettuce & sliced tomatoes in cold storage "lexans"

I hesitated over that word but I needed something that would hold a lot of burritos

burritos, peaches cos I don't want to think about my previous vote again

but it's been so long since I had a burrito that I think I could do without them. & yeah: at home when we have burritos they're just tacos with bigger tortillas. So really I should be thinking of burritos in the wild, i.e. Mission burritos, but it's been a while since I lived in the Bay Area so even they are a distant memory. But Mission burritos aren't just tacos in a bigger tortilla: they are ordered in a way a taco can't be: a layer of this, a layer of that---and don't mention the Taco Bell monstrosity known as a layered burrito since they had some horrible creamy sauce iirc.

and the case here for berries is strong! It's just that I can't help but think of bitter or sour raspberries or blueberries, which shock the palette disproportionately to the pleasure that the good ones provide. But black currants presently rule my world so...well, one team will win, one team will lose, as John Madden once put it.

BERRIES PEACHES BERRIES PEACHES BERRIES PEACHES etc etc infinitum

burritos = arrangement and ribs = cut. neither irreplaceable. rearrange yr burrito and call it something else. slow bbq some other fatty cow chunk and eat that instead.

berries v burritos

delicious food you can source in any country in the world and includes toms and watermelons, can be eaten on its own or combined vs a food you can only get in america

voted berries, peaches

lol @ dyao's pun.

voted vegetarian.

Can see berries/peaches as largest single vote but both still going out, somehow?

I don't think I've ever had a burrito. (Berries, ribs is my vote.)

Have a sad feeling that burritos aren't going to survive this one.

Can see berries/peaches as largest single vote but both still going out, somehow?

Mathematically impossible.

Mathematically impossible.

Oh, you're right! Well, I feel a lot better about this now.

voted vegetarian.

― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

spoken like a true brit (ie - someone that doesnt know that burritos are like the #1 dirtbag vegetarian food in america)! :D

anyway, i think i originally voted burritos/ribs but have actually been swayed by WmC/smith and done a reversal

PERRIES/BEACHES

i find it hard to believe that anyone who's ever had a good burrito would vote berries here

I salute you! xp

Hard to believe that anyone who's ever picked berries and eaten more straight off the vine/bush than they brought home would vote burritos here.

I grew up in SoCal & would bet that I have wolfed down more unstoppably great burritos than anybody here & I voted berries, because berries are a perfect thing in this world.

berries are a perfect thing in this world.

truth

Berries, peaches: a vote for the melba ticket

berries are a perfect thing in this world

yeah, nailed it with this

Could live without all four of these foods, tbh, but "Burritos, Ribs" is still an easy vote.

popping in to rally the burrito voters because it looks like tacos are going to get defeated by sushi in the second round, at which point all mexican food will be off the list and WHERE WILL YOUR GOD BE THEN YOU HEATHENS

jeez ur mexican braveheart needs work tbh

Everybody eats berries.

lol @ voting for burritos over berries u deserve to be murdered. by heart disease

burritos can be very healthy, wtf?

it wasn't nutritional prediction, it was a judgement

burrito voters have just evolved to the "oh shit i can combine foods together to make magical new food" level whereas you berry types are still out there wearing animal pelts and crawling through the underbrush

burrito voters have just evolved to the "oh shit i can combine foods together to make magical new food" level

yeah, only just

btw darraghmac i have had "mexican food" in ireland (no srsly!), and as a result i do not blame you for voting berries. the rest of you assholes should wise up however

you have said this to me before!

its kinda lodged in my memory. tbf it was 10 years ago and 9/11 changed everything so maybe its gotten better? it was the only mexican restaurant in dublin. the salsa was LITERALLY ketchup.

omg

Burritos, Ribs

u really are the worst person alive

You can also put all the berries you like into a sweet breakfast burrito.

That's a ridiculously good idea!

would probably just eat the berries for breakfast and save the un-sweet burrito for dinner

You'd just use a crepe for the tortilla function. I hate breakfast burritos BTW, restaurants always put one deal-breaker ingredient in 'em and I hate scrambled eggs that I don't make myself.

Basically the scramblies served in restaurants are overcooked - it's not real scrambled eggs unless you're dicing with corporate fear of salmonella.

yeah, i don't like other people's scrambled eggs, either, but for different reasons. don't mind 'em a little dry, but i want 'em beaten to within an inch of foam, a little brown butter to start, carefully controlled cooking time & temp, etc.

its kinda lodged in my memory. tbf it was 10 years ago and 9/11 changed everything so maybe its gotten better?

actually i think dublin prob has gotten better wrt niche/specialist restaurants. we can only hope that much gppd came out of that dark day, tho i'm not making the connection myself

Movie evening has been pushed back 24 hrs and expanded to two-movie day, so North & South brackets will go up as soon as polls close this evening. Unless there are more ties, in which case I wash my hands of the whole thing and am letting my dog decide what is the best food in all creation.

his answer will be "people food" i hope you realize that

dogshit ftw

and tofu is already out of the competition so that means that a vote for people food cant really break any ties at this point

his answer will be "people food" i hope you realize that

― Poutine kissed boy "like a kitten" (jjjusten), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:15 PM (1 minute ago)

Nah -- for this little nerdlinger, the answer will be "cat food."

sticking with berries and ribs.

Your dog is adorable. I trust his/her judgement.

I grew up in SoCal & would bet that I have wolfed down more unstoppably great burritos than anybody here & I voted berries, because berries are a perfect thing in this world.

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:39 AM (4 hours ago)

replace "SoCal" with "the SF Bay Area" and this is exactly otm for me

ok dudes im just going to lay it out on the line here - i love vegetables so i am not just some meat chowing savage, but i srsly pretty much hate fruit and will avoid in 99% of the time.

so u can cram ur peaches and berries and whatnot

do you even have fresh fruit where you live, justen? Like, I voted against peaches, but i'd imagine if i lived or had spent considerable time somewhere where the peaches were awesome that i might have voted for peaches. I'm just wondering if your anti-fruit stance is similar to LJ's anti-mexican food stance.

minnesota has great apples iirc & berries grow wild (we had blackberries & raspberries in our yard in iowa)

I don't know that there's anywhere in the u.s. where you can't get good fresh fruit

Mr. Jaq is pro-berry but adamantly anti-"tree fruit". The only response to the anti-fruitivore is "okay then, more for me".

apples are pretty boring compared to berries - minnesota just seems like a sad place when it comes to experiencing delicious food.

yeah no, this is a problem w/me, not my locality.

xpost uh dude we have shit tons of wild berries, dont drag MN down by virtue of my weird opinions

lol - my apologies to Minnesota

umm apples are godlike sarahel

yeah i was about to go all aggro mn pride there for a second

food arguments make people do weird things tbh

umm apples are godlike sarahel

this x1000

endlessly amazed by apples

note: the less sweet a fruit is the closer i get to liking it, so i should prob have a mitigated opinion on sourish apples, plums, grapefruit, rasp/black/blueberries tbf.

my fruit hate comes mostly from the sickeningly sweet stuff (most bananas, the gross half of the apple family, most oranges, pretty much 100% of the melon family, etc.)

actually i feel worst about shortchanging grapefruit, because grapefruit is kinda fantastic.

Let's all make sure we know the difference between supermarket produce (bred for shipping) and real produce (bred for eating) TOOT SWEET.

lol c - you live in Washington, i totally respect your view of apples - meanwhile i live in berry paradise and i would assert that strawberries are a much more powerful god than the apple. Like Zeus vs one of those footnotish river sprites that could splash errant wanderers with water or cause them to trip embarrassingly over twigs.

If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry

'mmmmmm, this "vegetable" that was force-ripened with ethylene gas sure is tasty and healthy!'

no, noooooo

really tho mn is kinda apple paradise

note:http://www.allaboutapples.com/orchard/mn.htm

like the u of mn is the og of apple breeders, its a big fucking deal srsly.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qZmf9l-HC1A/SRsp5wxQoDI/AAAAAAAACF4/80548zs0CAI/s400/MelodyTime_3_Johnny+1429+1+5_620.jpg

When I was a kid I had a pretty big crush on Johnny Appleseed.

that pic will now be forever associated in my mind with Furry Vengeance - thanks Hollywood and the billboard industry.

That picture of Johnny Appleseed???

meanwhile i live in berry paradise and i would assert that strawberries are a much more powerful god than the apple.

yeah, no contest. somewhere towards the beginning of this deathmatch, i called strawberries the single most perfect food in the universe (or some ridiculous such), and would still totally fight in the defense of that precept. have bought two 4-pound boxes within the last month or so - for like $5 each! good, fresh, crisp apples can be astounding though. too often taken for granted.

strawberries are okay but mad overrated; practically every other berry except blueberries is better (ESPECIALLY raspberries/blackberries)

u havent' had the strawberries i've had

yeah of the berries strawberries do the least for me as well

apples are pretty boring compared to berries - minnesota just seems like a sad place when it comes to experiencing delicious food.

― sarahel, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:17 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

wildly wrong

u havent' had the strawberries i've had

well no, that would involve eating your puke and/or shit

so glad i live on good strawberry planet, is awesome

i feel like they were better and less sweet when i was a kid tho - some genetic breeding monstrosity perhaps

strawberries, not the shits of some guy on the internet

not to slight blueberries, rasperries, both of which tempt mine eye

most all fruit was better a few decades back. bred less to travel and sell, more just to taste good.

like, granted, the bay area can produce sea food and wine (major categories), and can get local produce year-round---but mn/ia/wi are like hippy organic farmer paradise

we used to grow strawberries, way back in the day, along with raspberries and blackberries, and the strawberries were always runners-up in the big berry-off

cherries pwn them, too

yeah i used to pick berries every year for my mom's JAM

which is....the JAM

if cherries were in this tournament i would vote for then above all even the curry of my people.

this whole mn food thing is reminding me of the time i was talking to a dude about how awesome farmville corn roasts are and he was totally baffled and i remembered that real fresh sweet corn kind of doesn't exist outside of the midwest anymore

oh man so pumped i got my permanent retainer removed (LOL, adult!) and now i can eat sweet corn on the cob again yeeeehaw

find it hard to believe mn/ia/wi have better organic produce than ca

uh gbx - if you're saying the sf bay area is not hippy organic farmer paradise, uh, i'd say that was a ridiculous as lJ's attempts at describing mexican food

xp - i worked at a cherry stand as a teenager - cherries are super awesome, agreed.

ok now i just want to lock up the shop and go home and forage through our garden and eat green beans and snap peas and cherry tomatoes off the vine yum yum

xpost: uh dudes, both farming and organic hippy commune stuff has a pretty hardcore thing going on in the midwest

we could have a minnesota v california poll

oh i think CA probably takes it, i'm just contending that the upper midwest does not really deserve the food rep it has. like, lol lutefisk and hot dish, w/e, but that's a cultural problem, not a "what's actually available to eat" problem.

well except in winter

no argument vs. cherries

but i am suspicious of "only these places have good" type arguments. like i can go to a store a few blocks from my house and buy loaves of bread that are shipped from paris every other morning, sold within a day of baking. only barrier these days is price. hell, most of the best washington cherries go to japan, cuz they pay top dollar for em.

hah i think mn has sucessfully lost plenty of state polls why add insult to injury xposts

uh gbx - if you're saying the sf bay area is not hippy organic farmer paradise, uh, i'd say that was a ridiculous as lJ's attempts at describing mexican food

i said no such thing. just that the midwest is FARM COUNTRY so it seems ridiculous to assert there's a dire food situation in the PART OF THE COUNTRY THAT PRODUCES ALL OF YOUR FOOD. (except for the stuff produced by cali, obv)

yeah but you don't have to pay a gazillion dollars to get top, fresh produce in ca

haha good Parisian bread is stale like 3 hours after baking /snob

i don't want to foster a CA vs MN rivalry - there are awesome things about both and we've both had governors that battled the Predator

iatee, there are like roadside stands and farmers markets all over the place in mn and the prices are like insano cheap

and really, mpls is kind of the sf of the upper midwest, w/a constellation of little farms ready to sell you individual grassfed heads of cattle and heirloom tomatoes and shit. and, like, the driftless regions of mn/wi are like teleporting to fucking vermont

i don't want to foster a CA vs MN rivalry - there are awesome things about both and we've both had governors that battled the Predator

deal!

I am not arguing that you can't get good produce in mn just that it's not doing you any favors to compare yourself to the state w/ the most + most diverse farming. and also I mean, avocados.

haha good Parisian bread is stale like 3 hours after baking /snob

yeah i totally agree! no idea why people pay $20 bucks a loaf (or whatever) for that crap. hell, good non-parisian bread stales pretty damn fast.

just saying, the farm to table barrier can be less than two days in the US, and so long as you're willing to pay for it, that means you can get the best fruit in the world pretty much anywhere now.

iatee - a lot of the avocados you get in CA come from Central & S. America

iatee, i was responding to this:

apples are pretty boring compared to berries - minnesota just seems like a sad place when it comes to experiencing delicious food.

― sarahel, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:17 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

which is just some w coast snobbery imo.

yeah that doesn't seem necessary

I will stan for MN sweet corn: best bought by the filled paper grocery bag from a farm stand 30 minutes from the center of Mineapolis.

Euler, they're talking about Poilane bread, I'd reckon - that stuff stays good FOREVER.

i was misinformed and also trolling

mn has p good cheese

ANYWAY this is reminding me that i need to get that most traditional of MNan housewarming gifts.

hint: it's from a lake!

Euler, they're talking about Poilane bread, I'd reckon - that stuff stays good FOREVER.

is this true? should check... never had it, so don't really know, but my assumption has been the same as euler's. why pay crazy money for bread that's already half a day old (even if only half a day)?

http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/2/23/Zelda_ALttP_Zoras_flippers.png/180px-Zelda_ALttP_Zoras_flippers.png?

lol xp

ANYWAY this is reminding me that i need to get that most traditional of MNan housewarming gifts.

hint: it's from a lake!

oh there is a great HSTNGS response to this (RSch3rff's underwear?) but only jjjusten will get it

so instead I'll say "congrats on your new home, here are your mosquito eggs"

find it hard to believe mn/ia/wi have better organic produce than ca

lol @ you finding that hard to believe

yeah Poilâne is ok for a couple of days, though still, by day 2 it's not great, gets pretty tough (never had it in the USA, though)

welcome to the neighborhood, brought you a bag of leeches xxpost

yeah but you don't have to pay a gazillion dollars to get top, fresh produce in ca

in iowa you buy fresh og corn at a farmer's market that's in the parking lot of the hy-vee, not a "farmer's market" that's actually an outdoor grocery store pavilion - you get 10-12 ears to the dollar at the height of harvest, and there isn't any corn in california that can compare to it. in 28 years of living in CA I never had a tomato that could complete with the tomatoes that pass for average in the midwest.

srsly man these food threads are too much fun for you to bring your "the entire midwest is a bunch of repulsive savages who live in walmart" vibe onto em ok

not enough burrito pix in here

http://kenleisen.com/Sessions/dream/lesson4/images/OnePoundBurritoChicken_Burritos.jpg

http://www.23hq.com/2781377/3144254_c159d3b82d2618a9b8e0848531064524_large.jpg

GUYS THE ANSWER IS WILD RICE

burritos taste better than they look tbh

where i grew up we went and picked the corn from the fields and then had it for dinner that night - it was excellent. the midwest does have excellent tomatoes - prob the best tomatoes i've had were in Indiana. However, I have had excellent tomatoes in California as well.

man sometimes i just wanna move to duluth, and just go totally fukkin native

that first burrito pic is reminding me of Elijah Wood's bleeding stumps in "Sin City"

it's not even dinnertime yet

iatee you can try to create dissent between CA and MN, but dont come crying to us when the predators land and we refuse to lend a helping hand

that second pic that tipsy posted looks like lasagna and not a burrito

srsly man these food threads are too much fun for you to bring your "the entire midwest is a bunch of repulsive savages who live in walmart" vibe onto em ok

can accept that the midwest prolly has better corn, but pretending like california doesn't have the best variety of organic produce in the country is just unnecessary challopsing - nothing to do w/ west coast snobbery.

iatee you can try to create dissent between CA and MN, but dont come crying to us when the predators land and we refuse to lend a helping hand

jjjusten is quietly volunteering to go fishing for any aquatic predators who happen to be invading via inland lakes

it's in his blood

iatee, can you please summarize your experience of midwestern produce?

I'm sure the best mission style burrito you ever had was in some down to earth folksy town in ohio or something

can accept that the midwest prolly has better corn, but pretending like california doesn't have the best variety of organic produce in the country is just unnecessary challopsing - nothing to do w/ west coast snobbery.

no one except for the dude who grew up there and moved away said anything like that, is the thing

goddamnit i had planned to make myself dinner tonight but i think that i may just have to succumb to letting "Boca Chica" restaurant hold me in its sweet burrito embrace thanks to this thread

variety, hands-down. we cannot make avocados and citrus and wine (well, the last one's debatable.....).

but, like, of all the stuff we grow ~that's the same~, it's gonna be a toss up over what's the best!

oh lol is that the place we went to that one time, lo these many moons gone by

... "Lady Mouth"?

yeah but even outside of food arguments he sides w/ his romantic ideal of red state america over pretty much everything

xp

J0hn, I said about the roadside corn but I had no idea it was still so damned CHEAP. Also, yo, the state with the Democratic Farmer-Labor party can probably call bullshit on coastal prejudice about land stewardship. Because of migration patterns, the Mexican food in MN is pretty good too.

Euler, I can keep Poilâne in the fridge for about a week, and I generally use it for toast so any toughness goes buh-bye in the toaster.

Perfect breakfast: soft-boiled egg on buttered Poilâne toast, dusted with sel de mer, cracked pepper and coarsely torn flat parsley. #pretentiosmenudescription

OF COURSE IT'S WILD RICE. Y'all have not lived until you've had my wild rice stuffing.

Gbx:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/gr5/graphics/gr5_th6_sel3.jpg

I'm sure the best mission style burrito you ever had was in some down to earth folksy town in ohio or something

is there a part of "I lived in california for 28 years" that's hard for your mindlessly coastal brain to process dude? burritos rule in CA. the produce you get there cannot touch the produce in the midwest. I know, because I moved from CA to IA, where I stayed for ten years, and every damn weekend at the farmer's market I got my mind blown both on variety and quality. I know what I'm talking about; I'm sure you can find a graphic at HuffPo that makes you feel comfortable in your biases, but you're wrong.

to gbx: yes that is the place w the margaritas.

to dan: yes that may be the translation idk also shit dude have we not gone there THIS WILL BE FIXED NEXT TIME U IN TOWN

okay this is sarahel's argument anyway! I was defending california, not attacking minnesota ffs

Because of migration patterns, the Mexican food in MN is pretty good too.

lets not go crazy here

Perfect breakfast: soft-boiled egg on buttered Poilâne toast, dusted with sel de mer, cracked pepper and coarsely torn flat parsley. #pretentiosmenudescription

I tried but there's no way I can get a Menudo joke out of this

to extend the pizza branch (fuck olives, they were resoundingly drubbed) to the midwesterners - your cheese is better than ours.

xp - Aero - you lived in the wrong part of CA, so what-thefuckever-dude

real talk.

though my allegiances were v v sorely tried by what must have been dozens of pounds of CABOT CHEDDAR in college

CA has incredible produce

it doesn't have the soil the midwest has tho, and the land is hillier & rockier & there's more mountains & trees blocking the sun

that's the main reason why the variety & quality of local produce in the midwest is better I'd guess

I'm sure you've spend loads of time in lol "red state America" (for you: any place you haven't visited) and wouldn't dream of just talking out your ass about places you've never spent much time in tho, right?

you lived in the wrong part of CA, so what-thefuckever-dude

lol, you mean the part that could buy the other part if it wanted?

dan otm re sel de mer, if not the soft boiling of eggs yuk

simmer down y'all, food is supposed to ~bring us together~

who me? This has nothing to do with "red state America" - this has to do with the fact I grew up in a shitty small town in the Santa Clara valley, where the only good thing about it was fresh produce

My aunt had a vegetable garden with about five different kinds of tomato and the best of these were golden cherry plum tomatoes, which she made into the most amazing tomato soup I've ever had.

xp aero - the only reason your part of CA could buy my part of CA is because we're nice and dopey and give you all that free water

xp aero - the only reason your part of CA could buy my part of CA is because we're nice and dopey and give you all that free water

lol I know I'm just serving iatee back his own bile, I don't actually have a horse in that race any more - my teenage So-Cal-Locals-Only feelings are strictly posing at this point

good to know - these threads are really all about posing that is ultimately harmless because it isn't like the berries, burritos, et al. are gonna come on this thread and have tantrums or start IMP threads about people denigrating them.

can't register my a_burr✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ account fast enough

haha had the exact same thought

"Hi, this is a fucking burrito. I am delicious, and filling, but not too filling. Fuck the haters. Signed, A Burrito, peacing the fuck outta this bullshit."

Dan, you're a mod - you can just make a fake user name "burrito" right?

would be funny to see Peaches post on ilx

Dan, you're a mod - you can just make a fake user name "burrito" right?

I can but that wouldn't be as fun!

Peaches should post on an ilm thread and alert readers to vote for her/them in this poll

peaches vs. flying burrito brothers

no contest

"What's up, dicks. Hard cheese in the house. You know you want it, so shut the fuck up and vote like you're told. HxCx for life"

though there's prolly a horrible band named 'burrito' out there xp

there are definitely some horribly formed "burritos" out there

wtf at all this regionalist dick-measuring in these nice fun food threads

;_;

and here I was just about to suggest that instead of WORLD FAP, ilx should have WORLD PICNIC

I guess someone would bring pizza and we'd listen to the beatles?

dear ilx,

thanks for the invitation to your world picnic. i prefer the velvet underground to the beatles

yours,

pizza

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

Everybody look out, JJJ's got a gun.

Berries 55 > Burritos 53
Peaches 55 > Ribs 53

maaaan

wow

my strong feelings of victory about this result are a little embarrassing

the sweet berry-and-peach flavored scent of JUSTICE

also co-sign with La Lechera, I raised my arms above my head when I saw the boldfaced results

my strong feelings of victory about this result are a little embarrassing

― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol ditto

both of those things tying again would be sorta amazing though

two vote difference isn't that far from a tie

now we can watch peaches lose to french fries, but i encourage you all to enjoy the peach-and-berry scent of victory while it lasts

SO FURIOUS YOU ALL DIE FUCKING FUCK

berries are the velvet underground of food IMO

not many people ate berries but every one that did went out and formed their own organic CSA

<3 berries & VU tbh

they're the raspberries of food

just ice is served

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I'm drunk but YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

LJ posting about food vs. LJ posting about food while drunk

can i vote for option 3 plz

I'm all for him posting about food because I think it probably gets people to vote for the opposite foods and those are generally the better foods

LJ posting about food vs. LJ posting about food while drunk

I refuse to choose between these two excellent options

iatee, you know I'm a gentleman with a British perspective who fucking loves the sensuality of things

Whoa, for once the right ones won!

for once, i am glad i voted