ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group D (no angry mobs here, move along please)

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Soup, White Rice, Mushrooms, Steak

mmmmmm, spam

(spam should have been one of the 64!)

Soup, Kebabs, Fish, Potatoes.

Don't mind losing white rice if I've still got brown. Sorry to wave off mushrooms. Actually mushrooms is hard. Don't know tbh, maybe I should've voted mushrooms. Steak is steak but potatoes is 20 awesome different things.

Cake, Kebabs, Mushrooms, Potatoes

cake vs soup is tough, but carrot cake rules all, so that.

white rice is good but not on its own, so it's hard to justify voting for it over anything that works on its own. I won't be voting for kebabs in the next round I figure but it gets the nod here.

boy do I love mushrooms.

don't care about steak (which is good since I can't afford it) & potatoes are versatile & affordable. man I love a new potato boiled & served with butter.

Praying against all odds for potatoes to see this one through,

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2502/4077308536_a09fd463f8_b.jpg

Euler, check this out: Tropical Carrot Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

I've made it three times now and everyone who's tasted it has melted into an orgasmic froth.

xpost OMG would let her mash my spuds

oh man that carrot cake looks incredible!

PS, making your own crystallized ginger is easy and 1/1000th the cost of storebought.

Soup, White Rice, Mushrooms, Potatoes

Voting for white rice was a bit weird, but kebabs are just plain nasty

I took it as meaning a proper doner btw, not the other ones that are rubbish.

I honestly thought steak vs. potatoes would draw howls. I can't imagine having a steak without a baked potato on the side to soak up the juices.

That's the thing, lots of the different main meals I eat would be really rubbish without some sort of potato-based comestible in there.

Soup, kebab, fish, steak. Don't know what WmC was talking about, this was the easiest of the four groups.

I would take mushrooms over the median fish, but fish includes salmon, pickled herring, anchovies, and smoked goods of all kinds.

Cake, White Rice, Fish, Potatoes

Went potatoes over steak. Steak is where I draw the line as a carnivore. It's too meaty if you know what I mean.

i can't believe I just voted for potatoes over steak

on the other hand, indifferent steak was the meal that made me stop eating meat, but no potato-based foodstuff has ever predicated a major life decision

Soup, kebab, fish, steak. Don't know what WmC was talking about, this was the easiest of the four groups.

I would take mushrooms over the median fish, but fish includes salmon, pickled herring, anchovies, and smoked goods of all kinds.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:00 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^ REAL TALK

White rice is like the worst thing in the entire tournament. Blandness!

This round is easy. Next round will be HELL ON EARTH

No wait, soup vs cake is NOT easy

fine, eephus and gbx hivemind it must be.

Cake vs. Soup -- tough choice. I wouldn't want to let either one out of my life, but soup wins in a general savory-over-sweet preference.

White Rice vs. Kebabs -- one of my favorite simple meals is some steamed broccoli with basmati rice. Kebabs are great, but rice wins for being more important to me day to day.

Mushrooms vs. Fish -- voting mushrooms, but only because I know sushi is coming in a later group. Impossible choice.

Steak vs. Potatoes -- I would probably give up steak before I'd give up potatoes, but the best steak I've ever had was better than the best potato dish I've ever had. Tough one, but steak wins.

White rice is like the worst thing in the entire tournament. Blandness!

Have you not eaten basmati rice?

Ppl considering voting for cake over soup, pls recall GUMBO IS SOUP

Well maybe gumbo should've been an option then! >:(

Oh man, I have just started thinking about rice pudding.

my friend makes a marsala rice pudding that is possibly the greatest homemade dessert I have ever had

Sounds like a winner to me.

Cake, White Rice, Mushrooms, Potatoes

lol carb freak. if you're desi, white rice is the ultimate comfort food. just the smell of it steaming relaxes me.

xpbit's absolutely phenomenal, does things with cinnamon and cardamom that I didn't know were possible - must get him to write the recipe down, I think it's his own

cake, kebab, mushrooms, steak

rice vs. kebab was tough though - then I remembered lamb souvlaki. But now I am craving rice pudding.

cake kebab mushroom steak

soup, kebab, mushroom, steak. fuck a cake, overrated rubbish.

bad cake is pretty bad, it's true, but good cake is amazing.

I have come to the conclusion I have no cake gland, it's all just cake to me no matter how good or bad it is (and I have eaten cake others have put in extremes of the two categories).

rice and potatoes far too versatile to ignore here, and i hardly ever eat steak or even kebabs tbh.

smh at anyone voting mushrooms over fish.

it's too broad a category, my brain defaults to, like, a fried fish filet rather than something like lox. actually, considering lox, i should have voted fish.

DUH

for the categorical things like 'cake' i am thinking of my favorite cakes rather than the average cake when making selections

I voted for soup but had warm something like ginger cake with custard occured to me sooner...

Basically I'm super hungry at the moment and voting for all the stodgy options.

You'll need to rearrange that first sentence yourself btw

this is the easiest one for me!
Soup, Kebabs, Fish, Potatoes

Soup is such a broad category. How could you do soup vs. potatoes when soup can include potatoes?

though i think i could have made a mistake with kebabs

xp - that's why you vote soup -- it can contain anything

xxp but it's Soup Vs Cake. you don't have cake soup, or soup cake. it's a straightforward choice!

nope

xp - that's why you vote soup -- it can contain anything

that's also why you vote kebabs!

i am enjoying this food fight a lot and want to thank WmC for taking the heat

i don't like cake, so it's easy: soup
i did vote kebabs

re: soup -- making a vat my own beef stock twice a year is where I really get all sacramental and one-with-the-universe.

i wanted to make my own pho one time but all the recipes i found were super-involved and i chickened out. i feel like making your own pho is something you would do, Amanda.

Basically, anyone who votes against steak is voting against my way of life. And if you are, fuck y'all.

i tried once, but it was not successful. would have been better if i had made my own beef stock!!

yeah, that was the thing that intimidated me about it

also too many ingredients -- much cheaper and more efficient to go to tank noodle since it's on my way home from work. BUT i do save the leftover broth and add my own noodles for extra next-day eating.

you live near all that delicious vietnamese food!

oh god tank noodle

damn right tank noodle

their papaya salad is the best i've ever had -- lasts for 2 large meals if you pad it with your own greens

Soup, Kebabs, Fish, Steak. (Sorry, mushrooms. You know I love you.)

^^^^ food arch-enemy

soup, white rice, fish steak (like xck, sad only to see mushrooms go)

Fuck a potato. Especially when fries have their own entry.

oh my God what is wrong with you people who are repping for cake over soup

i will str8 punch any1 in the face who tries to foist soup on me at a wedding or birthday party. cant stick candles in potato leek motherfuckers.

I love good cake but soup is a whole world

the only cake I would fight & die for is cornbread which I don't think is included in the cake matrix here

mocha cake with a hazelnut crust, come on now

last time I checked there wasn't a soup with a cream cheese frosting

You should invent such a thing and gain the people's fame and ovation forever!

Cake, Kebabs, Fish, Steak

Cake = yum, soup = ok, sometimes great

Kebabs, again probably means something specific to the folks from the UK. To me this is anything grilled on a stick, which is ok by me. White Rice is zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Fish, easy.

Steak is great, a potato might make a good side, but maybe a nice salad would be good too.

soup as I say is a whole world - Indian soups are a thing, Mexican soups are another, north African soups are incredible, on & on, noodle soups, lovely miso, just so many different textures & taste combinations & feels whereas cake is delicious, and there are certainly many kinds of cakes in different styles, but the contest isn't even close really: soup is like a whole genre of its own

this book btw while work-intensive has some of the best soups I've ever made

if I were a carnivore the absolute bloody triumph of soup over cake would be even more pronounced & breathtaking, you people who eat meat yet vote cake over soup are gettin your kitchen pass pulled

anti-sweet-food bias on ILX shows some kind of political something or another that needs action/revolution or at least angst-ridden thread hijacking

soup is like a whole genre of its own

This is a statement for life. And I've learned over the past year that there is rarely something as satisfying as making an excellent broth from scratch.

last time I checked there wasn't a soup with a cream cheese frosting

Now I'm thinking about a thick curried carrot soup served with a dollop of barely-sweetened cream cheese mousse. "Deconstructed Carrot-Cake Soup"

My stomach's turning just thinking about it.

anti-sweet-food bias on ILX shows some kind of political something or another that needs action/revolution or at least angst-ridden thread hijacking

I love sweet foods! might vote pie over soup really. soup over cake isn't even a contest tho

I assume we're all on the same page in knowing that anybody who would vote cake over pie is an inhuman monster

I might vote cake over sweet pie! though if that includes tarte tatin, maybe not. But really tarte tatin is an upside-down cake & there we are, cake again.

would vote cake over pie any day of the year

except thanksgiving

If I was starting this over, I'd make it cobbler instead of sweet pie.

cant stick candles in potato leek motherfuckers.

This is the food tournament. The sconce tournament is two doors down to the left.

anti-sweet-food bias on ILX shows some kind of political something or another that needs action/revolution or at least angst-ridden thread hijacking

― Euler, Sunday, July 25, 2010 12:18 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes! except i think i have to vote sweet pie over cake, guys.

sweet stuff hurts my teeth tbh. I vote for food that doesn't hurt!

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Nice strong showing for Soup!

soup knows how to play this game

Soup 78 > Cake 62
Kebabs 79 > White Rice 61
Fish 87 > Mushrooms 53
Steak 72 > Potatoes 68

steak over potatoes = I have lost my faith in ILX

Oh man, four votes. Sorry potatoes!

at least I have fries. can't be arsed to see if chips won the other one. ;_;

this set of results is kind of eh

Looks like there's not much point for vegetarians to vote after the first round.

hey, pretty okay results! don't understand the "kebaps" thing, cuz again, it's just an arrangement. means on a stick. how is the idea of cubed meat on a stick more valuable than rice, i dunno, but whatever.

lol largest poll turn outs ever

"In English, kebab with no qualification generally refers more specifically to shish kebab or döner kebab served wrapped in bread with a salad and a dressing. But in the Middle East, kebab includes grilled, roasted, and stewed dishes of large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat; it may be served on plates, in sandwiches, or in bowls."

Looks like there's not much point for vegetarians to vote after the first round.

I'm a vegetarian and I voted for all four winners here! The cheeses will roll, we'll unite behind those.

Oh wait, soft cheeses are out, time to loot the nearest shops.

You're a vegetarian, and voted for kebab, fish, and steak?!

I really dislike white rice - it just tastes of nothing to me - potatoes are a bit better when done right but they're still nothing like the steaks my gran made me as a kid. Fish v. mushrooms was hard because mushrooms are most of my diet now but I take fish oil and that rush of oil is still such a thrill?