ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - West Bracket

shit just got real

Pasta vs. Curry

^ basically impossible

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Curry, Pizza.

I did it quickly so I didn't have to choose between Pasta and Curry - rationale being that Indian food has gotta have a fair crack at beating Pizza in the next round - it's a bit TOO Italian otherwise

mind you a good plate of Pasta...my god...

can we please have "curry" defined? apologies if this was done early. does it mean "a curry" as in "any combination of meat and/or vegetables in curry sauce," or is it just the spice mixture?

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

Pizza vs. Salad is the contest that Pizza vs. Sandwich wanted to be, how can I live without salad? How can I live without pizza?

This whole section is basically "foods that will all heartbreakingly lose to Pizza in the end" - it's like having the Grim Reaper in your study group

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza.

Bacon vs pastries was the only one I was dithering about, but wasn't too hard to choose in the end. I was also going to say that my choices reflect quite how unhealthy my diet is, but then there is only one healthy option in this round, and it's up against pizza, so doesn't stand a chance.

Aero: In my mind I was thinking the former, but left it intentionally vague and I believe some voters incorporated the latter into their deliberations.

but yeah I predict this poll will have the best LOSING four of any

um curry and pasta can be healthy you know? and pastries aren't exactly bad for you?

pasta vs. curry is a crime

can we please have "curry" defined?

I've been processing the options by asking to myself 'If you walked into a local restaurant and could speak no word other than 'curry', what would you end up with?'.

curry pasta

um curry and pasta can be healthy you know? and pastries aren't exactly bad for you?

Pastries are definitely not good for you, man. Lots of butter and sugar and shit.

And yeah, curry and pasta don't have to be unhealthy, but they're not exactly paragons of food virtue.

(Also, the best ones are the unhealthiest ones)

I think a healthy pastry completely bypasses everything that makes people want to eat pastries

otm

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

pretty shocked to find myself considering a vote for salad over pizza but I had a greens mix with gorgonzola and candied pecans the other night as an appetizer for a pizza and guess which was better the salad or the pizza here I'll relieve the suspense, it was the salad, the salad was better than the pizza, it was the salad

the salad do you hear

key word: 'here'

Couldn't you have just had that salad on the pizza and called it a pizza?

yeah, pizza can contain salad, salad can't contain pizza

not even my salad

although my salad is generally tomato salad and a vote against salad is the final nail in the Solanaceae coffin

oh, this fucken poll ;_;

yeah, pizza can contain salad

see this is why I just think of you as a court jester or a Punch & Judy character and not a real person

winkie-face I'm-mostly-kidding emoticon

it is factually true, though; you could dump a salad on a pizza and then roll it up into a gigantic pizza-salad burrito

I don't know why you'd want to do that, but it's physically possible

Man, that sounds great!

hahaha dude I say some batshit stuff about food now and then but seriously a green-leaf-covered pizza can be an absolute joy

sounds like a horrible calzone

couldn't you cut up a pizza into tiny bite size bits and dump it into a salad?

...

brb

basil leaves only thx

actually I think I saw a pizza once that was finished with some rocket, but please, just put that on the side for me and leave greens off the pizza

oh god yeah the great Rocket On Pizza debates we used to have

criminy

I would get more angry about pizza vs. salad but there's no way pizza is losing to salad w/ the ilx demographic

ilx demographic = fat internet people + like 3 nutrition nazis

btw, all the food-indifferent people who think the purpose of a meal is just to keep you alive for another day and to make turds to push out yesterday's turds --- HAHAHAHA, SUCKS TO BE YOU!

prosciutto, buffalo mozarella, rocket is a quality pizza topping I enjoyed tonight

Predicting this poll will finally kill off the whole Internet Loves Bacon nonsense (even though I do love bacon, it can't compete with the variety of options the word pastries allows).

Going pastries/chicken/pasta/pizza & feeling bad for poor old salad who didn't stand a chance and was just trying to help people.

i love greens on pizza, so i voted pizza

but otherwise i voted flavor density: BACON, HARD CHEESES, CURRY, PIZZA

please note: that was on the assumption that curry = all dishes containing a blend known as curry. if it's that nasty brown sauce thrown on fries at bars, i regret my choice. esp. since i have forsaken my ultimate comfort food: pasta with nothing but parmesan.

things I have learned from this poll: british people call arugula 'rocket'

The other three are easy, but pastries vs. bacon is a murderous choice. I'll probably wait until the last minute and then just flip a coin.

onimo, bacon's going to win this tournament. the power of the "MMM BACON OMG" sentiment runs strong. how do you think bacon made it this far?

I dunno peanut butter put up a pretty good fight against bacon

that was hard for me too, but i decided on the flavor density ticket. pastries are just not as intensely flavorful as bacon. now i am having regrets because they are -- they ARE! -- they're just more subtly flavorful.

i think pizza will win

things I have learned from this poll: british people call arugula 'rocket'

it's kind of a shame you had to learn it from this poll - I was at a restaurant during my 1st or 2nd trip to England trying to figure out what to eat and half the stuff on it contained "rockets" and I thought "man oh man what the hell is goin on"

truly a culinary explosion

WWII really left its mark on london

If you ask for arugula here, you just get given the first MIA album.

arugula on pizza is a total 'thing'

Bacon, Chicken, Curry, Salad

^^^ sounds like a dish

at applebee's or something

curried chicken salad is a thing, not sure if it would be good with bacon in it though

chicken curry salad is fine, not with bacon tho you are correct

hard cheese vs nearly anything else would have put up a fight, maybe.

no real qualms over any of the rest.

irish pastry vs irish bacon is quite a different proposition than the respective choices you may face in other countries maybe.

onimo, bacon's going to win this tournament. the power of the "MMM BACON OMG" sentiment runs strong. how do you think bacon made it this far?

Even if it beat pastries, which would be wrong, I can't see it getting out of a bracket with pizza in it. It's time for the bacon backlash.

There's a thread somewhere where everyone piles on the OMG BACON people, isn't there? Maybe it turned into another OMG BACON thread, I can't remember.

darraghmac there is an irish bakery near me with irish soda bread, wtf is it and should I try it

YES

There's a thread somewhere where everyone piles on the OMG BACON people, isn't there?

"do you ever feel like some people are fronting with this whole OMG I LOVE RIBS/BACON/CORNDOGS/FRIED CHICKEN shit nowadays"

xp yes you should try it, try it with real butter, strong tea- good marmalade if that's your thing.

if you 'do' a fry, then you need this.

So glad Pizza and Bacon will meet relatively early. IF Bacon beats Pastries and Cheese/Chicken, which it shouldn't.

Haha, Onimo just said that!

xp to onimo, and yeah iirc it did just turn into MMM OMG BACON anyway :)

soda bread also good for open faced sandwiches- yr soft cheeses & smoked salmon, what have you

a MUST with a hearty soup

great with strong red cheddar & good smoky hams.

now i'm getting some on the way home.

so it's not sweet? it looked like it had something that was maybe powdered sugar on top but I guess that was flour?

but should look like this:

http://www.worldonaplate.org/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/17/sodabread.jpg

and not this:

http://dailypostal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bread_soda.jpg

ok that's all about soda bread

xp yeah, get it brown, and it should prob have dusting of flour- not sweet.

okay I will try it soon, maybe w/ dinner tonight. it's good that I know that it's not sweet cause I was thinking of taking it for dessert.

it's pretty easy to make

it's very easy to make, yeah. all of the best ones i get are gifts and not bought tbh

it's good with vegemite

i went for pastries over bacon

Easiest one ever, bacon & chicken & pasta are on my BOYCOTT list because shits are well overrated (bacon: the most irritatingly overused cut of pork, chicken: the boringest and most misused of birds, pasta: the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of carbohydrates). Others win on default. Salad vs. pizza however is brutal because it confronts me with the "who i am" vs. "who i probably should be if i want to start shitting on the reg" dichotomy.

chicken is underrated imo, hipster chickenhaters have had their decade and the backlash is on the way

pasta: the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of carbohydrates

Go to Europe more.

But you're right about the other two.

love that sentence

"who i probably should be if i want to start shitting on the reg"

man these threads are just rotten with great album titles

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/22/article-1088543-0043EF5800000258-729_468x458.jpg

d-mac with the cover art

ladies and gentlemen, I think we have the presentation on the new aerosmith album all sorted out

fuck cheese btw

definitely their 'return to form'

Easiest one ever, bacon & chicken & pasta are on my BOYCOTT list because shits are well overrated (bacon: the most irritatingly overused cut of pork, chicken: the boringest and most misused of birds, pasta: the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of carbohydrates). Others win on default. Salad vs. pizza however is brutal because it confronts me with the "who i am" vs. "who i probably should be if i want to start shitting on the reg" dichotomy.

― Cold Poutine, So Hard To Eat (Will M.), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:16 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

see the thing is will

you are right most of the time - these are easy foods for ppl to fuck up, and they do it on the reg all the time

but these things

when done right

are sublime.

eat a chicken in france or pasta in italy (or a good italian restaurant) sometime

and you'll see why everyone has fallen over themselves to make inifnitely inferior versions of these things

I guess we're going to say goodbye to curry. My feeling is it hasn't permeated the culinary consciousness in the US anywhere near as much as it has in the UK.

or we just call indian dishes by their individual names, like we would any other food

I voted curry though because I basically get "all Indian food" in - plus, Indian is my favorite cuisine bar none

and basically I will be quite bummed if I never get pasta again, but if I can't have Indian food again, then I'm just going to kill myself

or we just call indian dishes by their individual names, like we would any other food

Like pasta or salad.

actually in america we just refer to all pasta as 'tomato sauce'

@s1ocki that is fair -- i have not tried the best of the best (i think the best chicken i have had is probs romados (i had portugalia's and tbh i didn't like it as much) and the best pasta i had is n/a because i have just had junk pasta) but the two of them are just so maligned in my mind by the imitators that i can't separate the great from the swaths of junk out there. especially chicken. for every delicious bird there are 500 pieces of crap that are like "well, we need to put a meat in-- how about chicken cos it kinda just feels like meat in the mouth and tastes like water with a little dirt in it" dishes. i'm scarred.

plus, i love indian food.

but actually like if you have a pasta recco in the city let me know (esp. if it doesn't cost 1 arm+1 leg) because i am open to repoening communication with this dish from which i am estranged.

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

^ a good meal selection

Bacon, Cheese, Curry, Pizza

PASTA IS JUST A PROP TO PLONK FLAVOUR ONTO

yeah i eat pasta as much as anything else, but i mean it's basically just an edible container for actual food

itt people who don't 'get' pasta

yeah tbf all the pasta voters know a lot about curry

nah i get pasta tbh but it's not curry

and are choosing the more varied and flavoursome dish

I eat way more indian food than pasta and absolutely prefer indian food to italian food, but curry is just a spice to me

yeah but this poll was started by persons who do not generally mean the spice when they say "curry."

I mean we could get into the whole history of of the use of the term "curry" which is a whole diff colonial-related thing or we could just admit that the group of dishes included in what Britishers mean by "curry" just knocks pasta out cold

Bacon, Chicken, Pasta, Salad. (Though I would take pizza or hard cheeses over bacon, fwiw.)

if more of the pig were included i'd be up on the porcine selecta. PORK CHEEK.

What exactly are the hard cheeses under question here? Cheddar? Parmesan?

Good cheddar on its own destroys 90 percent of this poll so it doesn't matter really

any cheeses that aren't like brie & camembert & that kinda thing

Wd rather give up meat than cheese no question in my mind

totally

yep

anyone tries either with me and they'll soon find out what a fuckn terrorist is

I feel obligated to tell you that you really wouldn't miss the meats like you think you would

not gonna get in a whole thing about it ok just sayin that was my experience & I'm a guy who used to special-order hamsteaks from Missouri

well I hear ya but I've done my time as a veggie and there's enough special meats that I miss too much to go back to it

good dry-cured ham for a start

I've done my time as a veggie too - I didn't get enough iron. I'd be vegetarian if I could be a lazy one. no real attachment to meat tbh.

good dry-cured ham for a start

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:20 (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

otm. should have been on the ballot ahead of bacon.

to, fu

whereas veganism is just hatred of life xp

I'm fortunate in that my job allows me luxuriant amounts of time in the kitchen when I'm not away - I'm the cook in my house, & I usually start meal-planning for dinner around midday. When I'm out on the road at work, eating well is a challenge for sure

When I'm out on the road at work, eating well is a challenge for sure

man u don't need to apologise for not eating meat, carnivores are non judgemental listening buddies

vegans make some delicious-ass food. shame abt their farts.

lol where was that thread where fruitarians came up...

Carrots scream when you pull them out of the ground, etc

no mercy for carrots, they didn't show me any from 1984 thru 1998

ah yes, the years of the tyrannical carrot reign

tbh if someone played recordings of screaming carrots for me, I would eat even more of them

pastry/pasta/cheese/salad i guess???? salad means all salads not just like garden salad or w/e right????

I think most things mean whatever you decide them to mean

cool, from now on "salad" means "Maserati"

this logic is the only way I could have voted against curry

wd rather eat a pizza than a Maserati

you're discounting the pearly finish

see, I know there's a gross double entendre in there but I can't be bothered to winkle it out

cool, from now on "salad" means "Maserati"

in that case i guess you do win friends with salad...

kinda bothered by the internal inconsistencies itp like if i vote for cheese and salad can i still have chicken salad (food of the gods?) really need clarity on this kinda thing b4 i vote, probably

Anything you ditch here can easily be hidden in a pastry tbh

*searches for img of a maserati wrapped in filo*

no dice

ah yes, the years of the tyrannical carrot reign

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved),

you got a hell of a nerve buddy YOU WEREN'T THERE MAYNE

xp will this do

http://www.formulaf1.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/chocolate-mclaren-f1-car.jpg

Louis Walsh looks confused

pstries vs. bacon is unfair

salad vw. pizza also a problem

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza - but i have not hit the vote button yet so

so there's still time to switch from pasta to curry!

press the button

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

this is why plax won't visit MN imo

is stilton a hard cheese? Because if not, I think the fact that pasta beat soft cheeses means pasta could seriously win the whole thing.

Stilton is a hard cheese imo, alongside Danish Blue, but not Roquefort or Gorgonzola?

Wait, pasta beat soft cheeses? J,YP

its going to be hard for me to vote for curry because it seems like its supposed to mean some weirdo brit food that i have never had. i mean i had a buffet at everest on grand that had 6 different kinds of curry on it just yesterday and i ate a little of all of those sons of bitches, but i get the impression that this british thing is some sort of thing they squeeze out of a tube into a paper cup or something so i am not voting for that for sure

Curry isn't a wierdo Brit dish, it's a generic Britishes term that covers the majority of Anglo-Indian or Euro-Indian main dishes. In other words it is food of the gods.

okay dude seriously, there is a lot to lol at in British food but one thing that is almost unilaterally impeccable and better than what you can get in the US is Indian food

I will take you to London and we will go to Brick Lane and you will be amazed

In Britain "curry" is usually shorthand for a number of Indian dishes. xp

if i were british id probably vote curry over pasta. but im not

I guess tho people voting pasta are voting for the variety of pasta-based dishes whereas I'm just thinking of plain unsauced pasta.

its going to be hard for me to vote for curry because it seems like its supposed to mean some weirdo brit food that i have never had

you are overthinking this! it means curry! whatever comes to mind that you like when you think curry, vote for that!

right now I am super burnt out on Italian food and Indian rivals Thai and Japanese as my favorite so that is playing into my decision here

I guess tho people voting pasta are voting for the variety of pasta-based dishes whereas I'm just thinking of plain unsauced pasta.

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

i didn't quite do this, but going by my favourite of either (straight up no messing carbonara vs chicken shahi pasanda) and it's not really a contest

am i crazy or did bread not make it to this tournament? how did that happen?

oh hey

Cos some idiot would have voted zucchini over it or something

^ ire building

'bread' covers a bigger area than 'curry' tbh

tho tbh bread kinda needs its own tournament if anything, marble rye v sourdough v banana bread for example would break my brain

xpost

yeah but "pasta" is pretty general too

i was just about to eat a piece of bread and i don't remember voting on it and i felt bad
how could we have forgotten bread?

carb nazis fucken w/dis

ok maybe i can't back that up, looking at these options tbh

I guess tho people voting pasta are voting for the variety of pasta-based dishes whereas I'm just thinking of plain unsauced pasta.

I made my decision assuming pasta meant all pasta-based dishes. Voted curry. Wasn't an easy decision tbh cos I love italian food.

i am eating a piece of toast in honor of my fallen homie

pastries/cheese/curry/salad

pastries/cheese/curry/pizza

but, i have to say, i v v nearly went for salad just cuz:

pretty shocked to find myself considering a vote for salad over pizza but I had a greens mix with gorgonzola and candied pecans the other night as an appetizer for a pizza and guess which was better the salad or the pizza here I'll relieve the suspense, it was the salad, the salad was better than the pizza, it was the salad

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:24 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^this has happened enough times in my life to know that certain kinds of salads are way more reliable than pizza. like i know we have all had some ~bad salads~ (i am looking at YOU, the hospital!), but generally speaking you can look at the list of ingredients of a salad on a menu, and have a pretty decent idea of what you're getting. and then you can order any old slice of pizza and it's like who fucking knows, maybe this place has shitty pizza

tho granted the worst salad is probably not as bad as the worst pizza, and i have had pizza in england! made in a curry shop!

also srsly looking for bacon to go down in this, they are the England of this particular world cup, ~if you catch my drift~

a world without salad is a world without salad dressing, don't try to say it's not because it is OK

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Cq0s9-rTL._SL500_AA300_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA300_SH20_.jpg

Bacon, Chicken, Curry, Pizza

FWIW I figured curry wasn't just limited to the Anglo-Indian curries which are the staple of Brit diets but included other yummy dishes like Beef Panaeng, Katsu Curry, Curried Goat etc.

http://www.iga.net/images/decouverte/decouvertes_sushi-wafu.jpg

this on salad mmmm mmmmmmmmmm

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

but my heart isn't in any of it. how can i sacrifice all pastries just for bacon? and chicken such a crucial link in so many wonderful things (just broth alone). taking pasta over curry cuz i eat it more often and i can still order biryani. but jeez. leaving pizza vs. salad, utterly impossible choice. took salad only cuz i know it will lose.

salad dressing does not come from stores. = olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, lots of dijon, s&p. unbeatable. almost as good as pizza....

salad dressing does not come from stores. = olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, lots of dijon, s&p.

actually agree with this, far superior to store stuff and have to travel at least 50m less to get.

all bottled salad dressing is horrifying, what is wrong with you guys

pasta v. curry and salad v. pizza made me want to cry but i went pasta/salad. obv didn't for for the pigs or chicks.

okay dude seriously, there is a lot to lol at in British food but one thing that is almost unilaterally impeccable and better than what you can get in the US is Indian food

I will take you to London and we will go to Brick Lane and you will be amazed

huge truthbomb

try the curry mile in Manchester, the food I had there last time was mind-meltingly good

if curry wins the whole tourney, I am 100% happy with that result

realest of talk

Pastries
I'm going to take a controversial stance on pastries to encompass anything made with pastry - including both savoury and sweet pies! even though both were voted out by a bunch of disgusting savages. I'm going to continue to mentally put pies in extant categories right to the end. So if this thing ends up being won by soup or w/e, for me this will be "soup, including savoury pies". it's the only way to get justice.

Hard Cheeses - would miss slightly more than chicken. Although at the moment I'm supposed to be keeping away from cheese to stop me from being a fattay. Actually, wait, just thinking about what fits into the hard cheese category - cheddar. cheshire. stilton. emmenthal. gouda. manchego. paneer. - cheese a clearer winner than I first thought

Curry - brit definition, no contest . Pasta just tends to get in the way of nice food, and for me its a myth that its somehow elevated in the hands of good italian chefs. the price gets elevated, definitely, they must make some fucking profit on pasta dishes, but it's always disappointingly close to something I could cook easily at home. And I'm a terrible cook.

Salad. from the garden is fresh and lovely. a good restaurant caesar salad is one of lifes joys and go-to for wanting to feel healthier after a night out. I'm not going to knock pizza, can be great, but good salad is eating pure sunshine.

My vote for 'pasta' is a vote for plain penne with pesto, feel like that's the default pasta somehow? Sauces are represented in the poll I guess.

ok ok, i will try yer brit curry the next time i am there sheesh

until then tho im not giving it the nod because a grouping that would be based on "stuff w/curry in it" would be all-encompassing madness

i will back hard cheeses as my personal #1 in it to win it choice (which is not going to happen)

xposts

tomofthenest builds a compelling case. have no regrets re my pasta vote, but fuck bacon imo, pie crust = pastry

I'm going to take a controversial stance on pastries to encompass anything made with pastry - including both savoury and sweet pies! even though both were voted out by a bunch of disgusting savages. I'm going to continue to mentally put pies in extant categories right to the end. So if this thing ends up being won by soup or w/e, for me this will be "soup, including savoury pies". it's the only way to get justice

tomofthenest for president or uk equiv

emperor iirc

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

I had a chausson aux pommes the other day that was the butteriest thing I have ever experienced (& I liked it)

btw I'm gonna vote against pizza all the way until the end because of the atrocities committed in its name (as discussed on another thread)

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Pizza

Pastries, Hard Cheeses, Pasta, Salad

what euler said. tho pizza is damn hard to deny. you could put some arugula on it after it comes out the oven and call it a salat

salad seems such an arbitrary designation. like, most of the things i like that come in a salad also come on a pizza. except for beets. but i could have roasted beets and consider them "beets" and not "salad" - so, pizza.

Also: pastries, hard cheese, curry (though it was a tough call against pasta)

could you not make beet pizza with similar stuffs that people put on potato pizza? like chevre & walnuts, or gorg & rosemary? something like that...

if pastries go down tom is gonna find a way to classify savory pies as 'sushi' or something

beets are kinda maybe too sweet tho

yeah - i can imagine a pizza with roasted beets - i'm pretty sure i could go somewhere within a 10 mile radius and find one - but i think they are a bit too sweet and i like them separate from other things, except for maybe with some other sweet but tangy fruit or vegetable and a bit of chevre or soft cheese. (RIP soft cheeses)

are there even actually any decent curry places on brick lane?!

all bottled salad dressing is horrifying, what is wrong with you guys
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ur wrong and ur a grotesquely ugly freak

I mean - no doubt britain is great for curry but at least give us credit for the amazing stuff not just the sub-par (I might just have been unlucky but I never had even a 3/10 curry the 5 times I've eaten on brick lane)

not all of it is horrifying, it's true

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xk-PkZrmeos/SckZCTcnwYI/AAAAAAAACOU/ZpEh-R6ILRM/s320/Kraft-Seven-Seas-Green-Goddess-salad-dressing.jpg

There are decent curry places on Brick Lane but I've stopped going because of the guys that try to flag you down with coupons to their place. And then there is the Shampan, which is serious about being Bangladeshi. These days I go to Green Street in East Ham for South Asian things.

dan did you post that to say "this one's good" or "lol @ kraft salad dressing"

also I feel obligated to do this

These days I go...Ham...for South Asian things.

ok sorry dan
xxp

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good dry-cured ham for a start

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:20 (Yesterday)

I saw this earlier at uni where I am banned and it was a fucking massive truthbomb - cured meats are incredible, especially this - the Spanish know what they're bloody doing with ham - also I didn't consider saucisson and salami amid 'sausages' - different thing IMO, the cured stuff is obviously godhead

lol y u banned from a uni homes

I asked to be ILX banned so I'd finish my course, and I was temp-banned on my home ISP but perma-banned at uni...just how it went

i....i don't get it

Someone temp-banned me at home (forksclovetofu, in fact, in his first act as site mod, at my bidding), but someone else heard my pleas for ILX separation while I was posting from university and consequently permabanned that IP (not ISP, wtf), a decision which I have never seen fit to reverse

high quality dry-cured ham is unbelievable

you made it sound like the university banned you, which made us wonder about your IRL activities

Someone temp-banned me at home (forksclovetofu, in fact, in his first act as site mod, at my bidding), but someone else heard my pleas for ILX separation while I was posting from university and consequently permabanned that IP (not ISP, wtf), a decision which I have never seen fit to reverse

high quality dry-cured ham is unbelievable

― British Burrito (acoleuthic), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:22 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

incredible finish, a true competitor

taking pasta over curry cuz i eat it more often and i can still order biryani.

A biryani can be considered a curry too (I'm looking at a menu at the moment that has it so classed). Not that I want to get into an argument about the (non?)definition of curries, just saying.

consequently permabanned that IP

Presumably a shared IP with a big chunk of the campus, ruling out a new generation of budding acoleuthics :(

A biryani can be considered a curry too

why are you trying to take my biryani???

plus all kinds of people on all kinds of money re cured meats. proscuitto, salumi, etc. man, that is what gives SAUSIDGE. the edge over whateverthefuk it happens to be up against. not the dried ham so much. but the dried sausidge. dude in town makes the most insane finochionna and MOLE SALAMI you has ever put in your mouth. worth overturning the likes of broccoli, crab, pasta or peaches for, just sayin...

i like a biryani but it kind of needs a sauce-based curry to go with it imo

(in the uk it tends to come with a vegetable curry by default, but i'm sure we can take it as read that in the US - quite possibly south asia too but that would be irrelevant to an ILX fight about south asian food anyway i guess - this would be the height of disgusting savagery without needing the 3000 angry posts about bad teeth)

goodbye bacon, you are nice but way overrated, wd have voted for ham over pretty much everything, but here i'm going pastries, ???, curry, pizza - why yes i am pretty fat, thank you for asking - just need to work out whether something versatile but not very exciting on its own (chicken) beats the occasional treat of delicious hard cheese

ok, I made my pastry/bacon choice.

Bacon, Hard Cheeses, Curry, Pizza

The most important vote here (to me) is for good parmesan, and occasionally Parmigiano Reggiano when I'm feeling rich.

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omg the pizza/salad margin is epic

and bacon 61 pastries 60 by my count

CURRY

wait what happens now

98 - 23 pizza salad

69 - 52 curry pasta

and 80 - 41 hard cheese chicken

kinda disappointed salad didn't get more love. a good salad is such a wonderful thing.

Rooting hard for curry and cheese now.

Especially as they represent actually delicious stuff that veggies and carnivores can unite behind.

Bacon 61 > Pastries 60
Hard Cheeses 80 > Chicken 41
Curry 69 > Pasta 52
Pizza 98 > Salad 23

Didn't pizza have the largest margin of victory in rd. 1 also?

Wait, eggs > fondue also has a 75 vote margin.

doesn't count cause I mean...fondue

Bacon 61 > Pastries 60

ok this is my fucking limit, FUCK YOU ILX, FUCK YOU WITH ALL SINCERITY AND RIGHTEOUS RAGE

what the hell is wrong with you

the occasional tendency to flamboyantly post very much in character, and split infinitives

darraghmac there is an irish bakery near me with irish soda bread, wtf is it and should I try it

― iatee, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:03 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
YES

― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

???

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