ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! OMG the Quarterfinals

hard cheeses, soup (killer choice) eggs (KILLER CHOICE), chocolate

Cheese vs pizza? Really?

Noooo, you can't have cheese vs pizza. That's terrible. I'm going to have to go for pizza, because at least then I get to have some cheese. Since tomatoes got knocked out I can't cobble together a pizza out of the remaining foodstuffs.

oof

Soup and eggs are easy choices, but I don't really like either tacos or chocolate. Might just have to flip a coin.

did not feel righteous about any of these except for eggs over ice cream

berries v. soup - you are CRUEL

Pizza, Berries, Ice Cream, Tacos. My non-voting GF went Pizza, Soup, Eggs, Chocolate--different in three of four categories.

Really wish I'd been in on this one earlier, but I love it. DYING to see the beverages fites.

seems like the pizza/tacos finale is right on track imo

beverage fite would be boring - beer would win

or maybe not! I've been surprised by a lot of these results
xp

fuck you berries

beverage fite would be boring - beer would win

not convinced of this, and this whole bracketology business has demonstrated to me at least that the voyage is more interesting than the destination

A beer bracket would be interesting for sure, though I'm not a beer drinker myself. That's actually true of a lot of the candidates for this one (ice cream, obv.).

I've tried to make these rounds straddle weekdays and weekends so it reaches the most voters in every round. Continuing in that vein --

Quarterfinals - closing Saturday evening.
Semifinals - will close Wednesday evening, one week from today.
Finals - will close Sunday the 15th.

Monday the 16th -- we will finally all know what we're supposed to be having for dinner.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/foodfightbracket4.jpg

damn this round is hard

beatles = pizza
rolling stones = tacos
bob dylan = hard cheeses
velvet underground = ice cream
stevie wonder = chocolate
prince = berries
brian eno = eggs
can = soup

which would suggest a Pizza, Berries, Ice Cream, Tacos final

how is prince berries that is crazy talk

http://www.birdlandmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/prince1309_468x466.jpg

how is that NOT berries

...i'm finding it hard to argue

yeah that's a definitive counterargument tbf

did not feel righteous about any of these except for eggs over ice cream

+1. this is such a no-brainer, srsly. i mean, srsly. no no no no i mean SERIOUSLY

cheese/berries/ice cream/idc

I have voted against eggs in every round. They do not taste good, they smell awful, and they have the worst texture of any food ever, no matter how they're prepared.

Pizza, Berries, Ice Cream, Chocolate

A good pizza with lots of fresh rocket on it, some gently heated raspberries with a blob of ice cream, a cup of coffee and a few squares of dark chocolate... Gotta say I would be very happy with that.

wait when did poutine get knocked out

First round. Got beaten by eating poop iirc.

Beer World Cup wd be interesting, to find out which country makes the best beer!

Pizza bc it's my fave application of hard cheese and it's hard to vote for the ingredient over the delicious end product.
Berries vs. Soup is insane and I can't decide.
Eggs vs. Ice Cream is lame bc I think both are kinda w/e and have beaten WAY too many great competitors.
Tacos I guess because chocolate who cares. be different if it were cocoa maybe but w/e

if germany won the beer world cup i'd eat my stupid hat

Pizza bc it's my fave application of hard cheese and it's hard to vote for the ingredient over the delicious end product.
Tacos I guess because chocolate who cares. be different if it were cocoa maybe but w/e

chocolate because it's my fave application of cocoa and etc

didn't we do a beer poll already?

yeah but it was not knockout style

Which Country Produces the Best Beer?

Cheese, berries, ice cream, chocolate.

Pizza is great, but cheese is awesome in so many other forms than just as pizza topping that it'd feel criminal not to vote for it. Neither soups nor berries are among my favourites, but I gotta go for berries here, as soups usually tend to leave me feeling like something is lacking. They're okay as appetizers, but no so special as such, unlike berries. Not the biggest fan of ice cream either, but eggs are so vile I'll always vote against them. Since living in Finland apparently means I've never eaten Real Tacos, it's pretty easy to vote for chocolate, which I at least know is good.

Gotta say, the results here look more vegetarian-friendly than what I thought. I was kinda expecting the semifinals to be meat vs. meat vs. meat vs. pizza...

unnecessary 'apparently'

Hard Cheeses, Berries, Ice Cream, Chocolate

I love pizza, but I decided last round that I'm gonna vote for hard cheeses as long they're still around

man youse all hate eggs so bad

Pizza, Berries, Ice Cream, Tacos

I think Tacos stand a good chance of emerging from this round.

later days hard cheeses, I had a completely awesome pizza the other night and it is fresh in my mind

i don't even know who you are anymore man. and that's not even a DN reference

a good pizza where everything's just right is, like, everything the most insane pizza enthusiast says it is & more. and it's communal. there's a place in St Petersburg FL that's run by a bunch of transplanted NJ guys and I was hanging out with friends & like we order out & when the pizzas arrive everybody starts eating and suddenly there's a profound near-silence and everybody realizes at once "holy shit this is a world-class pie" and there are three diff. kinds of pies all goin at once & everybody's all "make sure you try the margherita before you get full" & so forth & knockin back wine with the pizza and it's a beautiful evening at work & I just don't have any hard cheese experiences that can really compare

u got heart guy, so imma let you away with warning this time

I think these kind of polls are unfair to stuff that's just part of a dish, as compared to stuff that's a dish in its own right. Of course a great pizza is better than any hard cheese per se, but I'd still rather give up pizza altogether than give up hard cheeses as part of any food.

You run the next one then.

Hard Cheeses, Soup, Eggs, Tacos but i am regretting not voting berries.

basically I just voted against all of the ones that have had vocal supporters

although now I can't remember if I picked eggs or ice cream

I kinda agree with Tuomas but it's not wise to poke at WmC when his totem animal has been eliminated so recently imo

wait...is this tournament even real

Pretty strange getting to the last eight foods of all time with no chicken/beef/ham/fish/pastry/spicy racist sauces tbh. I'm just going to have to put all that shit on top of my berry pizza.

I have been mocked for years by some of my friends for choosing to order a cheese plate when we went out to a some random trendy place for drinks and dessert several years ago; I haven't done it since but whenever we go out, if there is a cheese plate on the menu they have a 30 second conversation about how I'm going to order it.

Knowing what I know now, I would still order that cheese plate.

Lost a lot of my interest in this as it's such a poor selection but voting for anything which could knock pizza off its all conquering journey.

mayor hickenlooper if you come down here and don't order this local cheese plate I will give you such a punch

^ no way to address a civic leader imo

going to a bbq on Saturday which will feature pork tacos - that's a xp to mr. justen who has a baffling concept of what is/is not a taco

a good pizza where everything's just right is, like, everything the most insane pizza enthusiast says it is & more. and it's communal. there's a place in St Petersburg FL that's run by a bunch of transplanted NJ guys and I was hanging out with friends & like we order out & when the pizzas arrive everybody starts eating and suddenly there's a profound near-silence and everybody realizes at once "holy shit this is a world-class pie" and there are three diff. kinds of pies all goin at once & everybody's all "make sure you try the margherita before you get full" & so forth & knockin back wine with the pizza and it's a beautiful evening at work & I just don't have any hard cheese experiences that can really compare

Jesus Christ. I'll give you a fucking hard cheese experience.

There is nothing left in this poll which isn't basically meh when compared to the deep fried anchovies I ate last night.

I just noticed - have any combos at any point in this poll received zero votes?

Yes -- I count six.

^ separate poll v desirable

Hard cheeses, berries, ice cream, chocolate

mostly missed this + last round cos on the road but my sweet tooth is in charge now

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I just put up a Beer Fight Nominations/Questions thread

If no one objects, I'll be putting up the first rounds on Monday.

jesus ilx

berries.

Hard cheeses, soup, eggs, tacos.

Shit's getting hard. Nothing here I won't be sorry to see go.

Pizza, Soup, Ice Cream, Tacos

eggs are the only thing left that i dislike

Pizza, Soup, Ice Cream, Chocolate

but Pizza/Hard Cheeses and Berries/Soup were practically fkn impossible, also Ice Cream vs Eggs is basically FFS ILX

Halloumi versus Pizza is like the Final Battle

but Pizza it is. Sorry, Halloumi. I'll put you on a pizza one day.

wtf is halloumi?

also, LJ otm with pizza, soup, ice cream, chocolate

halloumi is Cyprus' true gift to the world

i thought that was you, Louis

*blushes*

but seriously, eat some proper halloumi, fresh off the grill, then revise yr opinion of what cheese is capable of

last chance to not vote berries so i dont hate you

I just wanna say I voted soup because I think soup is probably the best thing in the world but berries are still awesome so hate away, would have voted berries over eggs or tacos easy

would have voted berries over eggs or tacos easy

this goes without saying - bottom half of the draw is still completely WTF

admittedly i am mostly on a pro soup tirade here

gonna guess...

pizza beats cheese but it's close
berrries beat soup
eggs vs ice cream - no idea
chocolate beats tacos comfortably

I think hard cheeses will run pizza closer than any other match it'll face, but I can't see them winning it.

Ice cream v.chocolate would be an interesting semi.

yeah if cheese can't beat pizza it's hard to imagine something else can...maybe chocolate

I almost forgot to vote!

ha I forgot too

One minute!

no curry no edibility

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FUCK YOU PIZZA

Sorry.

looks like soup beat berries?

eggs versus tacos = genuinely, what have you done, ILX

pizza versus soup is the real final

tacos I love you but this was a gift from the judges and you should be humble about that

how has a right-thinking website voted for Tacos ahead of Chocolate

how

ultimate food:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WR1sTApGMac/SiS_nkleswI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Tv7G6-mKQJA/s400/choco-taco.jpg

cause lots of people here have actually tried tacos, louis xp

although if pizza-tacos is the final then boy is Italian Food getting some whupass revenge

clotpoll now I am distressed

Pizza 62 > Hard Cheeses 32
Soup 51 > Berries 43
Eggs 49 > Ice Cream 45
Tacos 52 > Chocolate 42

tacos over eggs is the strongest i've felt about any choice in this poll so far

Tomatoes versus Chocolate would have been a really interesting and difficult semi-final.

never forget tomatoes

def did not see soup getting this far

Of everything in this round, eggs and cheese are the only thing I eat more often than every 2-3 months. All the good stuff got voted out by you disgusting savages ages ago. :(

tacos > pizza >>>> soup >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> eggs imo

more poutine for you then dude xpost

eggs>soup>pizza>tacos

eggs=pizza=tacos >>>>>>>>>>>>> soup

dude go to europe more

pretty sure iatee thinks that europe is a suburb of america tbh

^^ otm

also I think british people should go to europe more too, there they can learn about tasty foods

that's otm though - and I have done so on numerous occasions

I'll be voting for soup overall - there isn't any egg dish, type of taco, or, God forgive me, style of pizza superior to the best that soup has to offer

soup is God imo

RIP ice cream, I will console myself with a bowl of you right now.

as a group, what went out >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what stayed in

otm

soup is such a maddening entry in this already maddening championship because it's basically just liquid flavor. that is what soup is, various flavors in liquid form. there is no such food that regarded as "solid flavor" in the most variable sense that would be allowed to go up against all real and actual foods.

whatever, fried eggs are my favorite food and i will vote for them til tha end

del, "liquid" encompasses a very wide variety of textures, feels, etc. that's what makes soup awesome! it is one yet it is many

all hail soup

i will hail soup as a nice thing to get in a small bowl and enjoy prior to enjoying the main course, but what is essentially sauce that's ok to eat by itself will take this thing over my dead body

it's not sauce

it's soup

right, and what a coincidence that they both begin with s

Soup's okay -- sometimes it's transcendent -- but I've never roadtripped for it the way I have and will again for other foods.

what the hell do we have to do to keep pizza from winning

Shut down ILX for a week?

we can do that!

i know tombot always said this wasn't a democracy, but being fair to the dude he never threatened martial law over tacos

pizza was a more inevitable ending than the beatles even:

a. americans really like it
b. british people really like it
c. meat eaters really like it
d. vegetarians really like it

i'm assuming that the pizza the americans are voting for isn;t available this side of the pond tbh.

because if that's what you're all voting for, then i'm very confused

dmac, i think the consensus is that american pizza is far superior to its british cousin, even if it is a popular food on both sides of the atlantic.

(btw i have never been to the uk at all)

pizza in america can be:

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/07/13/entertainment/photos_stories/021108pizza10cr184043--300x300.jpg
http://pastorjon.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c7aaa53ef00e553baeb2c8834-500wi
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/rsz_cheeseboard.jpg
http://www.biteofthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/varasanos_pizza.jpg

good. i can't imagine anyone writing odes to the british pizza, that's all.

+ a million other things

lamb vindaloo pizza from britain

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/120608558_be87c3d5ec.jpg

tho i would prob try it just to see tbh

special mention to this effort, which the sun has descriced as the most OFFENSIVE pizza in BRITAIN

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00421/SNN1942GX1_421728j.jpg

OMG CHEESE ON A PIZZA TEH VEGANS WILL REVOLT

i know tombot always said this wasn't a democracy, but being fair to the dude he never threatened martial law over tacos

Dude, he talked about it all the time on the mod board.

oh wait, I've said too much

This is the best pizza restaurant in Britain:

http://www.fireandstone.com/pizza/restaurant/menu.asp

And I've never been there without being amazed, but PIZZA STILL MUST NOT WIN.

do I have to start posting soup recipes for you guys to see the light

iatee, pizza in britain can be all of those things too, except the second one which is some strange sort of horrible abomination

That's Chicago-style deep dish pizza. I'll admit it's barely on the fringes of being eligible to really be called pizza, but MY GOD is it delicious.

it looks like a coronary in eight movements

eat that pizza and you won't have a movement for a week and a half

y'all sound like you need to reset the old intestinal flora with some yogurt and maybe an apple or two

i think part of the problem is that deep dish pizza is almost always made from inferior ingredients -- cheap cheese, shitty flavorless dough, etc. ime fancy pizza places that care about ingredients don't do the casserole so it's just the gross ones that do (ie giordanos, etc) hence, deep dish pizza is gross. (to me)

but when deep dish pizza is made from good ingredients - like Zachary's in Berkeley, and I hear great things about Little Star in SF - it is amazing and wonderful.