Nom Nom Nominations for the ILE Food Fight (64-player bracketed tourney)

nominated already:

pizza
burritos
tacos
sushi
bbq pork
bbq beef
hot dogs
waffles
oatmeal
cookies
pies
cakes
ice cream
kale
olives
"seafood"
Strawberries
Apples
Bananas
Peaches
Grapes
Oranges

bagels

blueberry muffins

"seafood" needs a little refining imho

croissants

pasta
meze
cereal
sandwiches
salami
steak (beef)

seafood definitely needs refining. there are quite a few fish that i wouldn't vote for, but crab in almost all of its iterations would be high on my ballot.

also, hamburgers.

somebody needs to go through the food threads with the most screaming and pick out the noms

this is gonna be EPIC.

poutine

white fish (bream, mackerel etc)
salmon
red mullet
non-fish seafood incl. crustaceans, molluscs, octopi

Crepes.

shrimp should be one of the seafood subcategories, but further split between fried and broiled.

also plz reduce fruit to 'citrus fruits', 'berries' and 'non-citrus fruits'

omg crepes had BETTER DO WELL

risotto

poutine

― peter in montreal, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:51 PM (20 seconds ago)

hahaha, YES

shrimp should be one of the seafood subcategories, but further split between fried and broiled.

agree shrimp should be separate, strongly disagree about shrimp subdivision

sausages

I had truffle fries last weekend and I ordered another basket at the end of the meal for dessert

just saying

falafel

strongly think we should call shrimps 'crevettes' to be classy about it

gamebird
green salad
oysters

Recommendation for things that swim:

fish
shrimp
crustaceans, other
mollusks

separate category for sushi

that's it

pierogies

There are only 64 spots on this bracket, y'all

salad (other)
bruschetta/garlic bread
soup goddammit SOUP
also bisque

saying "pot brownies" would probably be cheating somehow

part of me really wants 'tomato salad' to be its own thing, because helldarn I'd vote for it against a LOT

boston cream pie

lol Abbott, that would be for the DRUG WARS tourney, yeah?

i will vote for falafel over ANY other food if it's on there

DRUG WARS would be brief and bitter ;_;

goulash/casserole

KEBAB

Let's take food people actually like and call it by names nobody likes, like "fowls" for turkey and duck, and "crevettes" for shrimp (I had never heard this word before).

tofu maybe?
or hummus

or, l0u1s jagg3r's 64 favorite foods

i will vote for falafel over ANY other food if it's on there

^^^

condiments

ok i'll stfu now - these are only nominations tho! wmc is free to ignore any or all of mine

sammiches division

peanut butter & jelly
tuna
cold cuts & cheese

categories for beer, wine, spirits? or should the drinks fuck off to their own tourney?

drinks are not food

wmc I suggest you just go the dictator route like I did and use the suggestions to pick an arbitrary but reasonably diverse 64

fondue
onion rings
pistachios
breakfast cereal
confit de canard

cause a poll to create the options for what will be 16 more polls is possibly too many polls xp

I agree that alcohol needs it's own tourney. However I disagree w/the idea that alcohol is not food.

wmc I suggest you just go the dictator route like I did and use the suggestions to pick an arbitrary but reasonably diverse 64

yes

Yeah, I wanted to recommend beer but it's not really a food. I would feel bad, too, if beer won as a result. I know that I, personally, could seldom vote against beer.

Not really a food = not really a solid

Though I guess I'm accepting soup as food

also I will use my D&D dice to randomly roll up the matchups, guaranteeing at least a few screams

oh shit, what am I getting myself into here

yeahhh...16 polls

that's why I went with 32

people REALLY think "pluots" are going to do well on this poll?

xp: oh man, I was joking about the specificity of options.

yeah, I was taking it as a given that pluots were just kind of an ilx meme at this point (even tho tbh I would prob rate them very highly in the (admittedly absurd) instance of their being nominated exceptionally from whatever general "fruit" category.

I started buying pluots because of this board. It's a wonderful fruit.

pleach may or may not be made up but i am pretty surei ate one last week, plum and peach fucked a baby out iirc. delicious

it was some sort of pluot type situation, anyway. it was real good.

Might start these tomorrow after all and extend round one far enough into the workweek so weekday ILXors won't miss them.

Good! I'm not doing anything tomorrow, so arguing about food with people I don't really know irl sounds like a plan.

Oh man, I just ran the list through an online randomizer and the results made ME spittin' mad. This is going to be ugly.

Is this still on track for today? Not buggin or rushing you, just asking.

if this comes down to pizza vs taco and we have a 500 post thread arguing back and forth about the conservative ilx food canon i will be v v disappointed in all of u

gonna be a vegetarianism clusterfuck, I can feel it

wmc you should give us 1 or 2 random matchups just to look at!

if this comes down to pizza vs taco and we have a 500 post thread arguing back and forth about the conservative ilx food canon i will be v v disappointed in all of u

― I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR SAVED CHALK (jjjusten), Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically came here to make this joke /:

Hahaha what is the My Bloody Valentine of food, anyway?

spring roll imo

perfect!

French pastries because of the choux glazing.

Okay, I'm going to get this rolling with at least the first four groups. Would have been earlier, but I totally forgot about my wife's family reunion today. I ate something from ALL 64 BRACKETS. (I wish.)

Don't miss group G -- tacos vs. bananas!

I just finished typing up the group E - H posts and will go ahead and put them up if everybody wants. (lol portion control)

PIES

MAKE E-H GO FEED MY BRAIN WMC

I hope all weekday ilxors will take time to vote. Thank you for your support and I promise a chicken in every pot unless of course you'd rather have an avocado.

Making things easier.

it's the ILX FOOD FIGHT!!!! Round One - Group A
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group B (prostate health formula)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group G (featuring the Atheist's Nightmare)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group H (now with more aphrodisiacs)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group C (Canadian National Anthem edition)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group E (Subatomic Building Blocks of the Universe group)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group F (Hippies United Against Humanity group)
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group D (no angry mobs here, move along please)

okay a lot of these seem like voting options for big brother have nots

these results will break ilx you realize

here's hopin'!

There Will Be Ties

Shit, I have to figure out a tiebreaker system, don't I?

like I said: calories

::shrug::
I can't think of a better one than that.

I was gonna object, but at least w/ this round the 'which one has more calories' is pretty clear w/ 90% of the matchups

so does the item with the most calories win or the item with the least calories?
oh wait

but when ice cream and hot dogs tie next round...

ONE HOUR LEFT TO VOTE!!!!!!

These results are a big plate of WTF. Cakes/Cookies/Sweet Pies all gone, Spinach beats savoury pies. I didn't think people other than Popeye actually liked spinach. BBQ Ribs ties with Peaches. I await the final results with some trepidation.

ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - West Bracket
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - East Bracket
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - North Bracket
ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Two - South Bracket

If you haven't voted yet and actually have a weekend life away from the computer, polls close Sunday evening. Please to vote!

Bump for weekend ilxors.

was wondering if results had come in or not.

this is great WmC btw- thanks!

Thanks! I've enjoyed it a lot -- feel like I've learned as much about other ILXors via these threads as any other thread or site 'event'. Esp learning that John Justen is a leather-tongued fruit hating philistine, what a wtf moment that was.

last call!

22 minutes! CAN'T WAIT

final prediction of yawnsomeness: tacos v pizza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAf6ux8dtlo

Next you should do the same poll but for which foods are best to actually fight with. Strong showing for sweet pies expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-spBDcJyk

An apple with cloves stuck in it on the end of qa string.

I'm no sure a pie fight would work with pizza. Maybe deep dish...but I don't want to start that argument again.

Fresh out of the oven to scald the roofs of their mouths.

What film was it the soviets banned because the food fight at the end was considered decadent? Can't remember - guessing it was an eastern european film.

sprinkled with glass and razor blades

^ old cypriot recipe iirc

What film was it the soviets banned because the food fight at the end was considered decadent? Can't remember - guessing it was an eastern european film.

Daisies.

Ah, thanks! That was gonna drive me nuts.