ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Three - South/West Round of 16

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Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Bagels, Steak

bagels vs berries the only thinker. berries on a massive comeback after the burrito close call, they could take south.

cheese, pizza, berries, steak

bagels v. berries is heartbreaking.

Curry is great but i couldn't live without pizza!

GAH FUCK ACCIDENTALLY VOTED FOR PIZZA WHEN I MEANT TO VOTE FOR CURRY

request blessing of thread to login under my previous login in order to counterbalance my wrong vote

pizza/curry and soup/steak are impossible for me. Berries and hard cheese is easy

Curry...curry is the best food. Curry and mashed potatoes and gravy, those are the two pest foods. Sorry pizza, you're not even in the top two.

Curry...curry is the best food. Curry and mashed potatoes w/gravy, those are the two pest foods. Sorry pizza, you're not even in the top two.

Ooooops, well, oops for posting twice. This is not heresy & shall not recant, twice.

aerosmith - counterbalance okay imo but you gotta vote against *all* the things you voted for...

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Bagels, Steak

aerosmith - counterbalance okay imo but you gotta vote against *all* the things you voted for...

got it

Cheese, Berries, Pizza, Soup

bacon, curry, berries, steak

bacon vs. cheese is basically impossible tho

bacon, pizza, bagels, soup

man steak is gonna beat soup. congratulations on making it this far, soup - you deserved to take it all but you came up against a sentimental favorite. I for one will always think of you as a true team player, able to play on any squad with panache. in my heart you are the winner of this competition but I suspect the numbers are against you this time.

i think i only lost lamb, chicken and cheesecake from the last round. will give these the proper attention before voting

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Berries, Steak

the only hard one here was berries vs bagels

cheeses, curry, berries, steak but man did i feel like i abandoned bacon in a bag at the train station

Hard Cheeses eww, Curry, Berries, Soup

Soup is always kind of more fun to make than it is to eat, so I'm voting steak. But spending a wet Sunday making too much of a thick, hearty soup is one of life's more spiritual culinary pleasures.

Curry vs. Pizza?

::BRANE EXPLODES::

That's like asking me to choose between the half of my life I spent in NY vs the half of my life I spent in London. Can't.

Also, I luurrrve Bagels (or Beigels, either way) but then I just remembered you can't have an Eton Mess without berries so that cinched it.

This is the only poll left that means anything. N/E is diabolical.

Will wait a bit before deciding, all I know so far is that FUCK BACON and FUCK BAGELS

Spite vote against steak for beating fish.

Hard Cheeses, Curry, Berries, Soup

^^^

Hard Cheeses, THIS SHOULD BE THE FINAL, Berries, Soup for me

Case for curry:

You don't get bad curry with ANYTHING LIKE the regularity you get bad, bad, terrible pizza
Curry is immensely variable, covers almost the entire gamut of flavours, and you will never in your LIFE run out of curries to taste
I eat curry more than I eat good pizza
Curry has chomp, the goopy mass of sensual exposure massing around one's mouth

Case for pizza:

Good pizza is a treat that never fails to make me thank God and all his minions for creating food
The fact that there's good pizza and bad pizza means I can get really partisan about pizza on internet messageboards
Curry can be a bit stodgy and can leave one with a slightly dodgy digestive tract - good pizza leaves one feeling righteous, always
Pizza has crunch, the bready bite which so gorgeously smacks against the palate

Which one can I live without? Christ.

Curry vs. Pizza

This is just plain evil

Will say one thing for pizza: never had a bad arse after eating it

yeah I make that point in my above reckoning

Only a moran would vote curry over pizza.

Voted curry though to avenge the death of poor old lentils

oops xp haha

Hard cheeses, pizza, bagels, soup.

I love bacon but couldn't live without cheese. Will be very surprised if pizza doesn't win this whole thing. Still not that fussed about berries vs bagels, but I really fancy a bagel right now. I like both in the last fight but soup is so much more versatile and can be a million times better than even the best steak - it had better win or I will be angry.

i still can't believe lamb lost to that fucker spinach.

if this were an american-only poll, curry would be a non-factor. way to go, former colonizers!

if this were an american-only poll, curry would be a non-factor.

ironically, because very few americans know what real pizza is. YAAAAAAOWWWWWW

british pizza sucks ass most of the time!

yeah but when it doesn't, dude, that is when the magic happens

gor blimey, i mean it sucks arse and looks like the queen's clotted menses on an wheat dough crisp, guv'nor

have i expounded on the worst british pizza i ever had? in luton (yeah, my own fault...), it was called 'california seafood pizza' and it was fresh basil, tuna fish, ranch dressing, and tinned sweetcorn.

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Berries, Soup

the only one I care about is hard cheese, gonna vote it here on out; the others are all whatever, bagels for the NY crowd, curry for the UK contingent, these things they mean nothing to me

let's up my SB count

(may still vote Curry, unbelievably!)

oh christ remy oh christ oh christ yeah this is what we're up against - if Zero Degrees (pretty authentic Italian-style place down the road, orgasmic pizza) didn't exist I'd have already voted Curry btw

my work here is done

I again would like to bring up that the use of the word 'curry' to mean basically any indian dish you want it to mean is sorta weird and racist

I mean it as 'any Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian or generally South-East Asian dish which involves an infusion of spices, chopped herbs and a base product, either meat, vegetable or both, possibly served over rice or with bread'

Yeahhhh, that seems a bit broad.

soooo any dish from 8 different countries, as long as it involves spices and herbs and...meat or vegetable.

that isn't 'any dish' and you know it

maybe narrow it down further by saying the spaces and herbs are infused in a sauce, although there's such a thing as dry curry and it can be really good

I invite you all over to share a dish of chicken and waffles, a popular american dry curry dish. then we can drink some curry juice (champagne, mountain dew or a strawberry milkshake) and watch curry tv (the local news, softcorn porn or a rerun of a baseball game.)

http://www.americurry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Animated_Americurry_logo.gif

I'm looking at the menu of the Thai restaurant across the street from me, and the out of the 27 dishes that I would consider main courses (i.e., not appetizers, soups, salads, or desserts), the only ones that by your definition would not be considered "curry" would be the three fried rice dishes, even though only five dishes on the menu actually contain the word "curry."

can you please post the menu here

http://www.roongpetch.com/page3/page3.html

Ha, I just noticed that one of the fried rice dishes is "Thai curry fried rice," so I honestly don't know where that stands.

(Also, I am not counting their sushi menu, obviously.)

Well, Pad Thai got knocked out ages ago - I don't think the things that aren't specifically Curry on that menu fulfil my description above - the infusion of spices is U&K

You don't think there are spices in, I dunno, every single dish on that menu?

I mean, it's a Thai restaurant.

Hmm. Perhaps spices, but not a mix of spices in a sauce. I know exactly what I mean by 'curry', I just don't quite know how to distinguish it. Maybe it's what sort of spices, maybe it's the indiscriminate mix of ingredients into a mush that is key

I'm certainly not counting Pad Thai or the salads in 'Curry'! I know what curry is ffs, I live in London

fresh basil, tuna fish, ranch dressing, and tinned sweetcorn

lol wth

yes we've established that you know exactly what curry is, it's a dish with herbs and spices and meat or vegetables and maybe it's a mixed into a mush but also it can be dry, so, not mixed into a mush. xp

I am sad that steak beat fish (all fish! ever! losing to some chewy gristly slab of cow, most likely charred on the outside, raw on the inside) and I will be sad when it beats soup ;_;

Bacon vs cheese pretty difficult but got to go w/cheese (bacon never as good as you think it will be - I will eat all the ham+cheese safe in the knowledge that ILX picked the wrong cured pork product); pizza vs curry impossible

I guess the confusing thing for me about curry -- which I may have already said on an earlier thread -- is that the only time I am conscious of eating "curry" is if it's so labeled on the menu. And so that's usually only when I order a red/green/panang/massaman curry from a Thai place. I imagine a lot of the Indian food I eat is considered curry as well, but on the menu, it usually just appears as "saag paneer" or "aloo baingan" or "channa masala" or whatever. There is no such thing as a "curry shop" where I live.

LOL at Merkins being so confused by the British usage of curry that they can't even get their heads around something that, like, 30 seconds of reading wikipedia would answer.

The word curry itself means sauce, it's a method of cooking that originated in India and spread outwards. It usually involves the usage of specific combinations of spices such as garam masala, though local curry traditions of other countries may incorporate other spices more common in local uses.

As to that Thai menu, a Satay is not a curry, it's a satay. Different spices. Just like North American chili is not a curry, it's chili, due to the different usage of spice combinations.

But, you know, Americans on ILX in being wilfully ignorant in dealing with the British in general and Louis in specific, what a shocker.

Oh shut up

To curry favor, favor curry.

I don't know why you even try, we're so hopeless. xxp

I's just what you lot deserve after all the "OMG, random European doesn't understand burritos/tacos/bagels!" OMG-ing on previous threads. ;-)

anyone who thinks that wikipedia article really clears things up probably didn't read the whole thing. it's not that I "can't get my head around" the british usage of the word curry, it's that I think it's a lazy and borderline racist way of looking at foreign food.

You only read it as "racist" because of where it originated.

I mean, you could have the same "OMG, but what on earth does it MEAN when it encompasses so many different things from so many different cultures" to something as prevalent as bread, TBH, but no one's gonna add any weird American "OMG, everything's racist!" subtext to that.

Oh come on, Kate -- Louis said that he would use "curry" to describe any dish originating in South or Southeast Asia with a spice-infused sauce on top of meat and vegetables. I was merely pointing out that a lot of dishes that would seem to cover (like, e.g., pad kee mao) are probably not curries. I readily admit that my knowledge of what constitutes a curry is not particularly nuanced, but I wanted to get LJ to narrow his definition.

borderline racist

dude do you want a 400-post clusterfuck?

I know what curry is. I know what curry isn't. I've eaten hundreds of curries at tens of different places. And apparently I'm a borderline racist for thinking that curry is a fairly broad church.

a quick search reveals a bunch of threads where that clusterfuck can go, thx

As to that Thai menu, a Satay is not a curry, it's a satay.

The only thing labeled "satay" on that menu is an appetizer, which we already agreed wasn't part of the discussion.

and jaymc it was meat and/or vegetables, plus the chopped herbs*, plus the added caveat that it has to be the right kind of spices**

*usually coriander

**cardamom, chili etc

i don't know whether to popcorn.gif or headinhands.jpg

http://www.wickedfood.co.za/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Curry-bible.jpg

^ Madhur Jaffrey, famous lazy racist cook

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i'm gonna agree with LJ here, and say I don't really understand what's so objectionable about his description of a curry.

and jaymc it was meat and/or vegetables

Sorry, that's what I meant. I don't even eat meat.

I guess "the right kind of spices" covers you.

in chicago, meat eats you

As mr aerosmith said the other day, Curry is one of the great foods for vegetarians, and also a vegetarian food that any meat-eater would regard as a full meal when done well

not potato curry, though - consider me an Okra man

I got a pound of okra just yesterday from my parents' garden -- will probably make bindi bhaji later today.

"The right kind of spices" = specifically, the general group of spices used in, (but not limited) to Garam Masala. Which is the precursor to yr generic Brit "curry powder" and contains the basic group of spices that most people will code as "curry" when they taste them.

is bhindi bhaji a curry

it sounds pretty nice whatever it is - I'm gonna nail my racist colours to the mast and say Curry

no kate, read the wikipedia xp

haha an indian roommate politicized me on this subject btw

what would he know

you only get curry in britain

Yeah, funny, iatee, because it's actually references in the wikipedia article I linked, right here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry#Curry_powder

yes, along with a million other ways you could define curry

I think it might be fair to describe the British lumping-in of many different dishes into the word "curry" as a relic of colonialism, or even somewhat colonialist. To use the word "racist," even with the hedge "borderline," seems willfully inflammatory, unless your sense of metonymy is so keen that a country's food is indistinguishable to you from its citizens, which, you know, begs a question or three

anyway I am willing to call people racist in more appropriate threads, but this is essentially my argument (to americans) for voting for pizza, despite indian food often being better than pizza

racism is an inherent aspect of colonialism?

I don't know how or why the Thai started calling their food-in-sauces curries but the four Thai curries - red, yellow, green, and mussuman ("muslim-style" iirc) - align with the four noble truths

pretty sure, yeah (xp)

Good curries in Britain that I have eaten are made almost exclusively by first-or-second-generation immigrants who presumably have some idea of what they're talking about when they define Curry. What they ALL have in common is 'a certain style of sauce or spice-laden cooking to which you can input one of the following meats or vegetables and combine with one of the following carbohydrate bases' - it's all about the permutations. If it has permutations and cardamom, it's a curry.

Thai curry is a delight, and yes of course it is curry.

Don't forgot panang curry, aero!

You know, I voted for pizza over curry in a kind of kneejerk reaction, but all this talking about what the fuck curry even is (I know, ffs) has gotten me extremely hungry for some.

who presumably have some idea of what they're talking about when they define Curry.

lol yeah, they define it in a manner that makes british people want to come in and eat it. I'd imagine that in a first gen indian household, when the kids ask what they're eating for dinner every night, mom doesn't say "curry!"

I'll stop trolling I promise - I do think it's something people should at least thinkkk about tho.

thinkkk

SUBLIMINAL ACCUSATIONS 4U

omg that was not on purpose

suuuuuuure

I'd imagine that in a first gen indian household, when the kids ask what they're eating for dinner every night, mom doesn't say "curry!"

haha I am imagining this and lolling irl

Amerikkka's most wanted curry

curry is as useful a category as sandwich. which is to say that - yes - it is probably preferable to refer to paninis, open-faces, banh mi, cheesesteak, Croque-monsieur, Shawarma, or sloppy joes as their name, but for all intents and purposes it is hardly /wrong/ or lazy to refer to any of these as members of the sandwich category

I dunno, there is a mythical place with a food called "hot dish."

xxp

^^^OTM xpost to remy

why WEREN'T sandwiches in this poll btw

sandwich has a pretty clear definition! food placed inside some sort of bread. there's no vague ethnic aspect to it, and there is to curry.

this poll needed some Hot Dish.

http://eclecticepicurean.com/Pictures/Casseroles/Tatertot%20Casserole.jpg

next stop: coronary

what about a 'protein style' burger at in-n-out? a wad of meat between two lettuce leaves, with a slice of cheese and some onions. no bread! so in closing a sandwich is a thing between another thing, except when it's not between another thing and sits on top (or underneath) a thing. also, it can be picked up – except when it can't.

right I wouldn't call that a sandwich, I would call it 'using lettuce to keep your hands from getting beef juice on em'

"a wad of meat between two lettuce leaves"

thus, san choy bau becomes a sandwich, and suddenly I mourn their exclusion

I would have voted Sandwiches over everything fwiw

but even in your world of bread-less sandwiches, it's still a word that doesn't have any particular ethnic aspects to it. basically just a structural term - anything, anywhere across the world that appears sufficiently sandwichian can be called a sandwich. whereas american food that fits lj's broad curry definition is still not a curry.

xp

I'm still trying to work out in what crazy American race paranoia world, "curry" is an ethnicity rather than a flavour or cooking method.

I missed the post(s) where anyone said curry is an ethnicity, but I have been skimming the thread instead of reading closely.

(nobody did)

I don't blame you if you've got iatee killfiled, I mean, to be honest, I would too if I could be bothered to install it, but you know, the post RIGHT ABOVE MINE for a start?

Quoting aerosmith again, because it seems quite salient...

I think it might be fair to describe the British lumping-in of many different dishes into the word "curry" as a relic of colonialism, or even somewhat colonialist. To use the word "racist," even with the hedge "borderline," seems willfully inflammatory, unless your sense of metonymy is so keen that a country's food is indistinguishable to you from its citizens, which, you know, begs a question or three

(I mean, yeah, I was definitely trolling with that last post but aerosmith has a point.)

okay let's agree that it's colonialist and leave it at that

fiery colonialist curry

some clarification here?

Feel bad for soup itt, cos it's as vague a concept as curry but lacks the controversial racist edge.

soup is wet and nicer than steak kthx

well, argentine steak >>> most soup but some soups are like whoa ty god for inventing liquid food

is curried parsnip soup a curry

said it last night and will say it again, soup is my personal winner among what's left. soup is a universe of possibilities and the best of those possibilities are the best food there is.

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Bagels, Soup

is mulligatawny a curry

I *think* that with a heavy, heavy heart, I'm gonna have to go with Pizza, because Curry is kept aflame by some soups, and because great pizza is about as good as it gets

fuck, though...let it be known that Pizza vs Curry is the single hardest decision I've had to make - better vote now before the DISGUSTING things Americans and fast-food joints do to Pizza spring to mind

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Berries, Soup

your wrongheadedness re: american pizza is a traet lj

you voted pizza over curry

and you call yourself an Englishman

I think I'm gonna ride lj about this at least until the day I die, and I reserve the right to send my ghost up from Hell to further torment him about it

the limey probably didn't even vote for limes (xp)

I voted limes in EVERY ROUND

and the I betrayed my country

and then

also I now hate myself because Curry is a world of awesome and Pizza is a bit more limited, albeit a personal heaven when done right

:(

fuck

gonna log in as 'Country Matters' and vote for curry + the 3 I did not vote for, is that ok

but that would mean voting for bacon

shit shit shit

don't take it so seriously, man, you're putting a run in ILX's collective pantyhose

it's alright enjoy a curry pizza
http://moonshineink.com/images/article_images/rs_rubicon1_07032.jpg

now that I have convincingly argued that you are all racist for voting for curry, I would like to start discussion 2:

is voting berries over bagels an act of anti-semitism?

imo: undoubtedly

I'm gonna not vote with my alter-ego. My vote stands. I'll be strong.

Re: curry pizza, I've already dealt with that here: this is the thread for louis to liveblog his brother's party

see LJ from what you have said on here about pizza before, i would assume that "incredibly un-pizza-like" would connote things like "made of basalt" or "stuffed with newspaper"

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:59 (10 months ago)

ahahahaha

It's okay LJ, I voted curry cos even though I like pizza more, I just did it for the frisson of light racism. So can own my vote.

high five, racist bro

I used to slap an egg on top of and shake curry powder (and by that, actually I mean, just red chili and cumin) all over frozen pizzas, grill, and eat for breakfast. Is that racist, y/n?

no, it's only offensive...to food

this will tear ILX apart :(

I chose Eton Mess over bagels, too. Am I classist as well as anti-semetic?

no, but possibly sexist for obv reasons

who the fuck chose spinach over lamb ffs?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

fie on vegetarians, fie

I mean, who wouldn't eat this --?

http://a3.vox.com/6a00e398c0295b0001011015fc0353860b-500pi

lamb is one of those things you don't even have to be veg to be a little grossed out by tho, like veal

http://topnews.in/law/files/Roast_lamb.jpg

vs

http://blisstree.com/files/116/2007/09/spinach.jpg

picture 1 looks like food before digestion, picture 2 looks like food after digestion

lamb is incredible but spinach is just automatic to me. if there's spinach involved in you, food, i will eat you, and you will be good.

lol we're on the rong thread

picture two looks better to me tbh

never going to eat with ilxors.

lol ken c pic 1 is clearly a "food photography" picture, probably of something made out of silicone

picture two is actual food

yeah I honestly thought picture two was the one he was posting to look delicious, before I read what he wrote

Wait, what, I know this was way upthread,,,,but people arguing for pizza over curry because curry sometimes messes with their bowels? No one else has gotten earthquake guts from pizza?

Have to say that spinach needs a new PR guy if that's the best photo ken could find. Looks like the goop that was blocking up our drains.

http://dandelionmama.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/spinach-main_full.jpg

xpost it's a creamed spinach & it tastes like the warmth of kindness

kkvgz you're hired xp

pic 2 was also food photography notice their focus and lighting involved in that pic and the position of the spoon, but the fact that the actual food looks like vomit is beyond the means of the photographer to change?

ken's ideal roast gets its color from beet juice injected with an insulin syringe

Would also just like to say:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TjEuxE_yL1g/SV4dnHloMzI/AAAAAAAACR0/jHdWcBuPLxE/s400/spanakopita+005.jpg

and

http://lh4.ggpht.com/ChinuaMelton/Rn8B1WU7-YI/AAAAAAAAEkY/AZEzVSC_g6k/spinach_artichoke_dip.jpg

spinach goes very well in curry if you wanna get racist about it

Got enough crackers with that? xp

yeah gotta say that picture made me want crackers more than it made me want spinach

Made me want a glass of water tbh

made me want a lamb madras

No one else has gotten earthquake guts from pizza?

Nopes

I had a pretty innocuous-looking slcie w/fresh mozzarella on it the other night & had to get up 3x during the night to deal with the aftermath.

digestion buffer low.

I applaud those that rise in the night to fart away from the bedsheets.

similar admirations for those who rise in the night to shit away from the bedsheets.

Thrice she rose, to fart or to shit I know not whither

ken c,

I have had what I term 'the ankle-grabbing shits' from both. #tmi

Thrice she rose, to fart or to shit I know not whither

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Monday, 2 August 2010 17:41 (3 minutes ago)

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ken this is the poll where spinach beat savoury pies

yeah i just saw that. and hard cheeses beat chicken.

maybe ilx doesn't like cooked food?

A long time ago I learned from friends that the 'curry' eaten in South Asian restaurants is rare in the home, because most of the dishes on the menu are generally served only at weddings or on other festival days.

voted for pizza and bagels as both are important components in pizza bagels

Surprised myself by voting soup over steak here. I really like steak, especially a straightforward hanger steak with frites or an old-school filet mignon with Bearnaise sauce -- but I think I'm put off by "steak culture" (looking at you, Peter Luger) just enough to go with the endless diversity of soup.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

it's quiet... maybe too quiet

last call

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

curry died, huh? :(

WE KILLED BACON!

horrendous results, people are absolutely devasted down here on the ground tom

Hard Cheeses 75 > Bacon 31
Pizza 63 > Curry 43
Berries 69 > Bagels 37
Soup 61 > Steak 45

you people and your goddamn berries

otherwise this round is a success.

i guess curry was always going to lose to pizza, so it's okay

Hard cheeses over bacon = biggest margin of victory in round 3. I didn't expect that.

wow - everything i vote for won!

I know we lost curry out there guys, we lost curry and there's not a single thing any of us could have done. turn in, get some sleep and don't worry about it. I'm recommending every one of you for a medal when we get home.

oh god curry went down? u fukkin savages

Και ο Ιησούς είπε, πατέρας, τους συγχωρεί γιατί ξέρουν όχι τι κάνουν

Curry only went down because it was against pizza. PIZZA. There's no way curry could beat that.

i have never been more ashamed of my countrymen and -women

bread and cheese vs an entire subcontinent of culinary art i ask you

clearly you don't understand pizza, d.

well clearly not. good day to you.

I blame the "curry is racist" agitators.

Wow, I am surprised but pleased by these results, really thought bacon-mania would take everything, plus didn't expect soup or berries to make it through either

RIP curry though but I like pizza so can't complain too hard about that one, too bad they met so early and Americans were too busy looking for reasons everyone not from America is a racist savage with bad teeth to think about whether they liked the food referred to by the name instead of the name itself

wait was there actually a racism discussion about curry? i thought i'd been following this thread fairly closely, but eh clearly not.

Yeah, Brits are all racist and living in the days of colonialism for referring to 'curry' and not by the specific names of dishes, so how dare we lump them all together for the purpose of this poll.

I find it kind of weird that a dish so rockist on ILX as pizza, where LJ once suffered a pile-on for daring to suggest toppings and was told only cheese, tomato, ham, mushrooms or pepperoni were allowed, could beat the infinite variety and world of NOM that is curry, but whatevs.

the infinite variety and world of NOM that is curry,

you're doing it again....

“Overweight elderly can live longer”, that “Curries can reduce liver damage caused by cirrhosis”, and that “Alcohol may fight effects of arthritis”.

i need to get copies of these studies (cited in letter in Irish Times this AM)

so, you drink booze to combat arthritis, have curries to combat the booze, then get fat and live longer? win fucking win!

that's exactly how i read it, and i don't plan to get a second opinion or anything