ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! The Semifinals

SOUP EGGS

At this point I veer away from pizza after four rounds of voting for it.

Soup, Tacos

this is so hard. well, pizza versus soup is. the other one i'll spin a coin for

pizza tacos

might have done a fight-the-canon anti-pizza vote this round if it were something that I ate / cared about more than soup.

tacos vs eggs is like infinity vs. infinity but the tiebreaker is 'which would piss off lj more'

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

hint for lj: eggs make everything, tacos make fucking tacos.

But fucking tacos are fucking great.

what happened to the meat-eating america-lovin jjjusten from earlier rounds?

n.b. Eggs and tacos are very, very nice when done well, sure, but they're not chocolate or tomatoes :|

things to remember re: eggs

mayonaisse
egg drop soup
pad thai
hollandaise
most good bread and baked goods

things to remember re: tacos

taco
another taco

the 'another taco' is key tho

meat loving me is still in full effect - eggs are like super proto meat or something tho, also soup can be pretty meaty as well

i dig pizza but not as much as soup
tacos are like lame ass burritos and i will not vote for them

most good bread and baked goods

Other baked goods maybe, but definitely not bread! Unless American breads are totally different from Finnish ones.

yes they are "good" bread

So Americans actually use eggs to make bread? Really?

Because in here there's only a few special breads that have egg in them. 99% of breads are made without them.

but those are all things made with eggs, not eggs themselves, JJ

have fun in your eggless universe u savage

(also, peeps that can not appreciate eggs qua eggs are crazy! poached! soft-boiled! scrambled! all awesome!)

I've had fun in it for 14 years now, and plan to keep on doing so.

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things to remember re: tacos

taco
another taco

hahaha I remember when I first learned the word "disingenuous".

Things to remember re: tacos

about two dozen options from the meats column
also fish tacos
about three dozen options from the vegetables column
dozens of different directions to go in spicewise
breakfast tacos of eggs/cheese/green onions/salsa
corn or flour tortillas
do the math and you get just as many taco varieties as soup varieties

ok if you want something way more clearly eggy to support my thing, quiche comes to mind.

xposts you have had what you call "fun" and i am proud of you for that

brb making minestrone taco

I always thought Tuomas was only 14 years old

ok I just figured out the eggless part

all due respect but there is NO WAY that the variety of taco approaches that of soup - even given your list there, nothing spreads a net as wide as gaspacho v pho v hot and sour v homestyle chicken noodle v cream of brocolli

what is with you people and soup

it is good food

i dont actually even understand the argument for tacos against soup, like if someone said i could either never have tacos again or i could never have french onion soup again i wouldn't even hesitate for a minute

Soup definitely has way more variety than pizza. Pizza is like the missionary position of food, it rarely fails to deliver, but rarely surprises either. If you're up for some kinky shit, go to soup.

(note: my clarifying question would be "can i have all the other delicious mexican foods? oh yes? fuck a taco then.")

things to remember re: eggs

mayonaisse
egg drop soup
pad thai
hollandaise
most good bread and baked goods

This is for eggs as a food by itself; not as an ingredient.

is this about what we want to win or what would be best to have in a food fight?

Pizza & eggs for me.

This whole tourney has provided me with a great deal of disappointment, but I'm honestly happy that two of my all-time favorite foods have advanced this far. If, however, it goes the other way, I will cry.

Soup: not very interesting as a food, no matter the ingredients.
Tacos: burritos, eliminated long ago, are superior in every conceivable way.

Tacos are better than burritos because you can have several tacos as a meal, each with a different delicious filling, whereas with burritos everything's jumbled together.

Plus tacos are really good with *sigh* limes

So Americans actually use eggs to make bread? Really?

actually no - jjjusten is either mistaken or exclusively eats extremely rich breads. your standard loaf at any u.s. bakery won't have eggs in it. however your standard supermarket loaf has all manner of dough conditioners & usually some high fructose corn syrup, which like I know people get all "gah stop bitching about the hfcs" but bread is like the #1 case against it because there is no reason to put that shit in bread = they know you'll eat anything so they just dump it into the bread, lol @ these guys watch I bet I can get them to eat it in bologna no you can't oh yeah wanna bet?

Corn syrup in bread? That sounds weird. In here syrup is used only in "limppu", a special type of sweet bread.

I had a really funny zing post but it was essentially just making fun of Finnish language having funny English homophones, do I post it y/n

IMO adding eggs to bread makes it more like bun, which is not the kind of bread I prefer. My favourite is rye bread, which is never ever made with eggs, I can't even imagine what it would taste like if they put those in the dough.

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Go ahead, if you want to.

ok say the thing about the special type of sweet bread that uses syrup again

you know what never mind the moment's gone

rip limppu zing

I stuck up for pizza for a while in this poll, but I think I voted for soup last time and this time, I'll be going for Soup, Tacos.

it's like aerosmith has gone to the lavatory all psyched for a massive splosh, and a shelf has gotten in his way

louis!

This can be the victory banner for the winning team:

http://eats.com/images/stories/eats/foodie_news/dec_09/tortilla_soup.jpg

I don't hold any grudge against pizza and tacos for somehow turning up at this stage, but seriously.

http://www.californiatortilla.com/caltort/wp-content/uploads/img-taco-lrg.jpg

http://sp.life123.com/bm.pix/fish-tacos.s600x600.jpg

http://www.chow.com/assets/2009/09/27549_spicy_squash_tacos_3_600.jpg

And of course, you can put egg in a taco!

http://www.elmercadorestaurant.com/images/breakfasteggtaco.jpg

2nd to last ones look like tostadas

they all just look like food put into wraps to me.

fuck designating that as a winning food group

it's far from 'taco' you describe, dar

although I reject that flour-tortilla monstrosity kkvgz has posted

tacos = corn tortillas to start, will brook no debate on this

the entire conundrum can be nicely encapsulated by querying as to why there's no idiom to the tune of 'as sure as tacos is tacos'.

there is where I come from

Could we call curry a soup? Because we'll really get some motherfuckers on board if we can convince them of that.

curry is a sauce not a soup

Shhhhh...

pizza is also a soup

There are soup-like curries, particularly from Thailand/Vietnam...

Pizza eggs. That hatch little baby pizzas.

I love love love love soup, and it is one of the few things I can actually cook well, but man, pizza is the absolute zenith of food for me. Nothing can touch it.

Tacos: burritos, eliminated long ago, are superior in every conceivable way.

burrito lovers are disgusting savages imo.

tacos made with thick corn tortillas and frijoles and pico and guac is a complete meal nutritionally and ~spiritually~ *takes all of u 2 church*

pizza vs soup is like...do u choose party or do u choose nourishment that brings u back to health (answer: party in the usa)

a pizza/taco final would be like a referendum of which group of ethnic immigrants u like best (feel 1/4 inclined to say pizza due 2 being 1/4 italian, pero sabes que, the 21st century is aztlan's time)

~~TACOS~~

really gonna have trouble with the INEVITABLE SORRY BROS pizza/taco final

like i'm half disappointed that two such obvious junk foods made it to the final and half genuinely, deeply torn by this, like i'm gonna be worried that i've made a huge mistake with real life consequences ("what if you really COULDN'T eat tacos ever again????")

no disrespect to the efforts of everyone involved but man these are kind of uninspiring binaries for me. I think I've gone months, even whole years without actively seeking to partake of any of these things (okay, so eggs are in everything blah blah blah well SO'S WATER IT'S NOT REALLY AN ARGUMENT YOU CAN MAKE)

guess I have had more fun times with pizza and tacos, ~shrug~

Another mark in tacos' favor (over pizza) in my mind is that they just seem leaner and healthier. Pizza meats are fattier, there's more cheese -- I can eat a fairly large meal of tacos and sides and not feel like I want to puke or hibernate.

let's not get ahead of ourselves, this could be pizza eggs

hahahahhahahaha even the thought of that makes me laff

tho i guess i'm forgetting about unamericans

exactlyq

minus q

q and not tacos

eggs are doomed

it's either pizza vs tacos or soup vs tacos and I think we all know which way it's going to go

I look forward to our 64-vintage wine poll coming down to Sutter Home vs. Paul Masson

oh pull that bottom lip back in before you trip on it, son

I'm just bein funny I love tacos & pizza

it is kinda pendulum's-all-the-way-swung that the two probable contenders are eat-with-your-hands foods tho

ps, I sent you a fb friend request, like, weeks ago

does your last name rhyme with bump & do you swear to vote for soup

extortionator!

yes to part one, but dang, man, that just aint right

just trying to state the case for soup, i.e., that my only real friends are soup voters

wait, facebook friends have to be REAL FRIENDS?

for reasons you might imagine I try only to friend people with whom I already have some sort of conversation going

can dig (not digg) that

I like to fry my own hard taco shells in corn oil so they're all blistered and dripping with grease, and then fill them with diced tomatoes and black beans and avocado. You all should come over sometime on taco night, and maybe bring a bib.

is the bib for the tacos or ....?

gross

Yes, Sarah, the bib is for the tacos. Later, though, I do like to be pegged with a strap-on using the leftover corn oil as lube.

and ~scene~

oh it's a scene all right

ob- scene

revel in my cornescence

gbxescence

I have to admit that aerosmith's impassioned pleas for soup totally swayed my vote in the last round and this.
Soup, tacos

when the human race learns to separate eloquent from correct then ILX polls and politics will change forever

that said, he damned near had me voting pizza vs hard cheeses. he's a dangerous man, a terrible man

At this point I veer away from pizza after four rounds of voting for it.

Soup, Tacos

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Saturday, August 7, 2010 6:31 PM (Yesterday)

I totally forgot that I'd already voted yesterday.

tacos = corn tortillas to start, will brook no debate on this

I think we will win more allies by having an open and inclusive definition of tacos. Though corn tortillas are damn good, yes.

I am about to blow a mind or two about what a vote for tacos can mean to you

Burritos are commonly called tacos de harina (wheat flour tacos) in central and southern Mexico and burritas (feminine variation, with 'a') in northern-style restaurants outside of northern Mexico proper.

do anguished burrito voters understand what that means?

yeah, I --

wait, no, I have no idea what that means

more pet semetary than bona fide resurrection imo

Could we call curry a soup? Because we'll really get some motherfuckers on board if we can convince them of that.

― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Sunday, 8 August 2010 16:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

curry is a sauce not a soup

― ciderpress, Sunday, 8 August 2010 16:47 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligatawny

mulligatawny is a soup, a curry flavoured soup. i'm not sure we'll get all of curry onside with that one tbh.

Semifinals already? I must've missed a round or several. Hm!

Pizza vs soup = nice thing with really shocking calorific content making it a v rare treat vs. potentially moderately healthy nice thing, dunno here
Eggs vs taco: eggs, no question

xpost leftover curry makes for good soup

also ramen - noodles in soup? or soup with noodles in it?

^ also not sure how this never made it to the food fight as it would have totally won.

you can get ramen noodles on their own so afaic it's a noodle

^ also not sure how this never made it to the food fight as it would have totally won.

I nominated it but was told that pasta was already there.

haha jjjusten is really showing his MN here

fyi you can put practically anything in a taco; in particular, fish tacos are a wonderful thing that are very very tasty and also incredibly dirty-sounding

dirty tasting too, if you use river-cat
(river-caught catfish as opposed to pond-raised)

oh bah dude i live on saint pauls west side, i have 40 bagazillion legit mexican restaurants all around me - i am just saying that burritos are more varied and yall assholes voted them out already so i will not give you the satisfaction of my vote.

also people saying that voting for eggs is voting for just eggs by themselves - i call bullshit unless a bunch of dudes were really excited about just chomping down on limes all day long.

eggs themselves still beats the hell out of tacos themselves with what you can do with them.

^ listen to this man, he is wise

soup + tacos for me; had my first taco in 14 months last night & it was everything I'd remembered.

mostly just voting against pizza b/c voting for soup in summer is hard (yeah yeah gazpacho)

eggs are the worst food-ish thing in the world btw & I look forward to Modern Chemistry finding a suitable replacement for eggs as a binder.

oh bah dude i live on saint pauls west side, i have 40 bagazillion legit mexican restaurants all around me

yeah but you still didn't seem to know about the amazingness that is the carnitas taco on another thread so I was basically asuming Mexican food in MN was about the same as it was when we were growing up, ie pass the Olde El Paso

I love eggs when prepared in specific ways but if someone offers me a choice between fried eggs and tacos and it isn't breakfast/brunch, I'm picking tacos. Also even bad tacos are pretty good but there are a bunch of things ppl do with eggs that are like the grossest things ever, mostly because runny egg yolks are the end of the world and possibly the grossest thing you can put into your mouth that isn't excrement.

so wrong

runny yolk is luscious -- LUSCIOUS

(probable) site of the championship match:

http://animalshow.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/webphoto203283.jpg

oh god that is depressing

democracy never works

soup/eggs it is then

NOT EVEN JOKING

pass the Olde El Paso

"thanks" for putting a melody in my brain I had successfully gone nearly a year without singing

runny yolk is luscious -- LUSCIOUS

UCK NO IT IS NOT

fyi for the finale, every post is going to have Das Racist embedded in it

"thanks" for putting a melody in my brain I had successfully gone nearly a year without singing

little-known fact is that that was one of the last Lennon/McCartney collaborations before Lennon's untimely death

pass the Olde El Paso

you gotta add the echo at the end of the phrasing imho for full "pleasure"

also the experience of eating runny yolk is kind of like what I imagine what it would be like to experience Satan shitting into your mouth

for me the thing with yolks is, like, I have nothing against male ejaculate, I just don't want to mop it up from a plate with toast

Are you sure that was eggs you were mopping up with your toast?

well, it came from eggs, right - same basic idea

I have the sense that you may find brunch a little TOO stimulating

wait, I...oh fuck I think I just figured out why everybody was mad at me after the FAP

they were pretty mad at you after the Fancy A Pint as well iirc

Runny egg haters: how do you like your scrambled eggs?

I would not touch egg yolk in its unscrambled form until I was 21. Now, my fried eggs need to be cooked so that the part near the white has cooked through but there is still some sauciness at the centre. I dip all the other things from a cooked breakfast into the egg and mop the remains of everything up with whatever toast is left. Then there's egg soldiers - a three-minute boiled egg you dip buttered toast strips into while it sits in an egg cup. VERY British. The same egg is good for dipping buttered asparagus, too.

Still hate solid-mass yolks in boiled eggs.

Runny egg haters: how do you like your scrambled eggs?

very, very hard-scrambled; in fact, if they get rubbery when they are cold, that is perfect

man all you runny yolk haters are depressing me

best sort of egg by a million miles is hardboiled egg mashed up with butter, salt and pepper, then served warm, fwiw

... okay, no

I think I mentioned this before in an earlier matchup but take a soft-boiled egg, bite the top off and expose the yolk, pour a dash or more of soy sauce into it, and eat the whole thing

yeah

there is basically no form of preparing eggs that I don't think is great

how about those eggs that are fermented partially-formed embryos, what are those called again? we had a thread on them but since I don't remember the name, it's hard to search for it

that's not an invitation to create new disgusting forms of egg preparation

soy sauce + eggs is a pretty unbeatable combo.

balut

xpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)

but if you wanna start going down the paths of "look at how bastardized this food can get so don't vote for it" I invite you all to visit my thread pizza commercials from asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Century_egg_sliced_open.jpeg/220px-Century_egg_sliced_open.jpeg

so beautiful

ha yes, I did kind of conflate the two

would eat century egg

According to a persistent myth, century eggs are, or once were, prepared by soaking eggs in horse urine. The myth may arise from the pungent odor of ammonia given off by century eggs, which is reminiscent of urine.[5] Horse urine itself, however, is only slightly basic, ranging in pH from 7.5 to 7.9.[6] Though human urine left standing can reach a maximum pH of around 9.4—the same as a 1-molar solution of ammonia—it is still less than that produced by mixing quicklime (calcium oxide) or wood ash in water.[7]

In Thai and Lao, the common word for this type of preserved egg literally means "horse urine eggs", either due to this myth or the distinctive ammonia odor of century eggs

pizza, eggs

"man I am famished -got anything to eat?"
"haven't had a chance to get to the Hy-Vee lately but there's some horse urine eggs in the fridge"
"oh awesome, it's been a while since I had horse urine eggs, thanks"
"no problem"

horse urine 4 all time

http://www.brownchina.org/bbs/attachment/6_119.jpg

that looks amazing

horse urine 4 all time

really desperately want this to replace yoga flame

based on his comments itt next time underrated aerosmiths are hanging out at my house I sure as hell won't be offering them any horse urine

runny yolks = proof enough of the existence of god
runny whites = worse than poutine get it the fuck away from me

soy sauce + eggs is a pretty unbeatable combo.

pretty unbeatable yeah but still beatable - sriracha + eggs

zomg clicking around Wikipedia links have made me really, really, really want to try making tea eggs

if you serve me runny whites i am leaving your house

you're... in my house?

ILX secret tour '10

I served your mum some funny whites last night

FUNNY WHITES

Fuck you Google Android!

(thats what your mum said)

^_^

I was going to take the existence of an Underworld mini-album/mix thing called "Pizza for Eggs" as a sign that I should vote for those two, but I thought "which of these would I most go for at this precise moment? why, a bowl of soup", so, soup and eggs it is

(totally not going to click on any of your gross-out egg links, that is just fowl play etc)

best sort of egg by a million miles is hardboiled egg mashed up with butter, salt and pepper, then served warm, fwiw

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... okay, no

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LJ......OTM

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Vote if you haven't.

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

We all knew this was going to happen, didn't we?

pizza vs. tacos

Pizza 84 > Soup 47
Tacos 73 > Eggs 58

basically, it doesnt matter who pizza plays in the final, though

Should I end this on Friday or Sunday. Are there really any weekend-only ILXors?

Maybe I should start a poll.

http://www.swaberita.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/miso.jpg

Pizza will win because you can make a taco pizza but as much as I dig both foods I cannot get excited about pizza vs. tacos.

^

soup versus tomatoes would have given me pause

tacos are one of the few things from the starting field that trump pizza for me

so i guess this will be more rewarding to vote in than the canon one where none of my favorite things went up against the beatles

for me it's like I can make really good pizza & pretty good tacos but my passion for cooking isn't really represented in either of these foods; I prefer to eat them when they're from a great pizza joint & a great taqueria. (or at my ex-girlfriend's mom's house but that's never going to happen.) so while the ingredient foods like tomatoes and eggs & the stuff-you-make foods like salads & soups seem like big open fields of inspiration to me, tacos and pizza are more like "things I buy," for the most part. hard to get as stoked about something I'm not in the kitchen goin all ballistic about thinkin "I can't wait to serve this to somebody they are gonna say 'underrated a that there is a delicious salad'" or something to that effect.

that's absolutely how I feel about going to eat at my best friend's - he's the best cook I know, and he's never, ever served me pizza or tacos or anything in that ballpark - great pizza at a restaurant is the earth and eight planets in alignment but home cooking is when I really get to watch food being made, marvel at the process, understand why it can be a joy to create as well as consume

and let me tell you, his fish soup...my god

also his couscous and his masala rice pudding, and things he does with garlic and ginger

garlic and ginger

......

his dogs, by any chance?

i now want to make pizza tacos

first gis for "pizza tacos" is so unruly that I'll let you all gis it for yourself if you don't want to feel hungry about pizza OR tacos.

When I moved out right after high school and was really poor, I used to buy those no-name frozen pizzas at the grocery store for about 69 cents, cook them two at a time, and fold them in half like pizza tacos. Sounds gross (hell, it IS gross), but they were dang tasty.