ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group E (Subatomic Building Blocks of the Universe group)

OK each of these is a head-exploder for me (except I've never had fondue).

Argggh, fries vs creeps

Eggs, Fondue, Ribs, Crepes

perfect food, default anti-vote (but uh totally not going to win this one), ribs are awesome, kinda dislike 99% of the stuff they call french fries out there (other than the ones in poutine because idk) and always forget that crepes are DOPE

Crepes

Make me feel sick

Crepes vs. French Fries

dear Americans, this is fucking war

I'm voting creeps on the understanding that it is skinny fries and not chips.

Cookies, Tofu, Ribs, Crepes

gonna vote now before i change my mind, these are all hard

Really care about none of these. French fries so inferior to chips I'm not sure I can even give them a sympathy vote.

Cookies, Fondue, Peaches, Crepes, obv

if BBQ Ribs beats Peaches then dammit I am s-ing mdh (although Nectarines >>> Peaches fwiw)

have you ever even had ribs

Eggs, Fondue, Peaches, French Fries

dear Americans, this is fucking war

bring it, we've kneecapped you sissies and sent you home crying twice already

oh wait, that was a couple of centuries ago

Cookies, Fondue, Ribs, French Fries

Crepes vs French Fries is going to be a duel for the ages

have had ribs but not especially good ones - am thinking this might be a 'never been to America' thing but man sinking one's teeth into a peach I mean man

easy tiger, were talking about food here

crepes are gonna lose as big as Mondale did to Reagan in 1984 (still voted for crepes though)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/foodfightbracket1.jpg

Eggs, Tofu, Peaches, Crêpes. Also, all of these would make great skipping rhymes.

I think there should be a separate entry for proper Chips, they don't need to be included with their wimp and wussy cousins, French Fries.

It is such a wimp and wussy version of the mighty Chip, that they're already being beaten by *Crepes*!!

I'd include "proper mighty Chips" in the category of "potatoes" - which I voted for over steak

Eggs vs. Cookies -- my cholesterol count tells the tale. Eggs

Tofu vs. Fondue -- never had fondue. Tofu

Peaches vs. BBQ Ribs -- this is killing me. If I could never eat ribs again, at least I'd still have smoked pulled pork shoulder, so not all barbecue is lost. Peaches

Crepes vs. French Fries -- biggest margin of victory in round one? Fries.

Peaches have a high disappointment rate.

biggest margin of victory in round one?

a) pizza vs olives, b) looking at this thread already there's a strong crepe presence and c) ;_;

yeah, i love peach-flavored things, but the actual ones i get are always too hard.

xp

aw, LJ, the silent majority is all french fry. it doesn't even need to be articulated.

there's simply no comfort-food-that-is-also-a-hearty-lunch like a good cheese and mushroom galette, and very few desserts as satisfying as a lemon and sugar crepe (cream, fruit, honey optional)

crepes are all-time and even if ILX doesn't love them, I do

isn't a galette a sweet pie?

cheese and mushroom crepes are one of the reasons i voted crepes over fries, add smoked salmon to it, and ... *sigh*

Eggs, Fondue, Ribs, Crepes, even though I haven't eaten Fondue or Crepes in years, maybe decades. I would again, though, if they weren't the sweet kind. (Is there a non-sweet kind of crepes? I hope so. Guess I could've gone with French fries instead, but I only ever like the curly ones or smothered-in-gravy ones sometimes, and then only rarely, and I'm assuming this means the plain old regular boring kind.) Otherwise, I'm tofu-phobic, and don't really eat fruits, so sue me.

I voted crepe. Galettes totally count there too, but sweet crepes = lemon, sugar no fucking about. Actually a Suzette's okay if you've got proper booze.

My mom always served them like pancakes, with thick oozy fake maple syrup & butter.

cookies, fondue, ribs, crepes fyi

sweet crepes = lemon, sugar no fucking about

yeah dude that's why I added the others only as optional extras should one feel particularly debauched

like a physical lemon, or lemon juice, or like lemon curd?

xp Abbott - grew up with savory crepes

Proximity to really good peaches counts for a lot.

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xhuxk, savory crepes are definitely what I think of when I think of crepes. Like, chicken & mushroom in tarragon cream sauce.

proximity to really good peaches ribs counts for a lot.

lemon juice! wtf

lemon curd MIGHT work but would probably be too thick, too gooey

eggs fondue peaches crepes

I'm putting shabu shabu and hot pot in the fondue category, personally.

savory crepes are definitely what I think of when I think of crepes. Like, chicken & mushroom in tarragon cream sauce

That sounds pretty good! Glad I voted for them.

Eggs, fondue, peaches, fries.

PEACHES > BBQ Ribs. A very hard battle between two strong but flawed competitors. Peaches are highly variable in quality, plus I actually kind of don't like getting slathered in juice as one does when eating a peach ripe enough to taste good. Great as a flavor in ice cream or dessert, not particularly strong as a companion to savory food. BBQ ribs are great but are for me the third-best kind of barbecue (after pulled pork and links) and get penalized for the annoying "BBQ ribs are the only true BBQ" one hears from their partisans.

FRENCH FRIES > CREPES Not that hard, as much as I love crepes. But here French fries is taken to mean FRENCH, i.e. skinny fries, as might appear either next to a steak with hollandaise sauce, or in a cone with mussels, or in a paper bag with a fast food meal. If we were talking crude, thick "chips," crepes take it in a walk.

Actually come to think of it, I used to get those cones of "Belgian fries" (w/ parmesan/peppercorn sauce) a lot late at night in the Lower East Side when I was there, especially if I'd had too many beers at a show and wasn't thinking straight. Always regretted it the next morning (the fries even more than the beer). But maybe should've picked them over crepes anyway, ah well.

Cookies, Fondue, Peaches, French Fries

Eggs are the Worst Thing In The Universe & the component of the one "food" that I think I'd take a bullet in the head rather than eat, namely mayonnaise. I can handle eggs as a component of things like cookies duh but on their own, I think that I would die.

I don't care much about tofu vs. fondue but I've had some good fondue in the countryside so that.

peaches over ribs b/c ribs often suck---& yeah I've been to the Rendezvous in Memphis & thought they were pretty lame. I love bbq but ribs are low on my list there. & yeah peaches! one of the few things that make summer ok.

fries over crepes b/c crepes are too expensive for what you get

It costs pennies to make your own crêpes, and it's super easy.

peeps voting against eggs - please note that unless u are a vegan you dont get like half of that food u like. which uh includes like 70% of yer beloved cookies you knobs.

peeps voting against eggs - please note that unless u are a vegan you dont get like half of that food u like. which uh includes like 70% of yer beloved cookies you knobs.

nonsense, eating a cookie made with eggs isn't eating an egg dish. "eggs" aren't an ingredient on a poll, they're a Thing You Eat.

have fun with your eggless life you charlatan

crepes vs fries = hardest choice you'll ever make...

not just - they have a whole line of magical spice blends that are the sole intellectual property of doritos llc

pretty sure doritos is not an llc

What do you mean by "magical"?

made by elves

magical = not controlled by an llc - like fucken magnets

what is your problem with llcs?

{how do they work?}

llrc

magical = MSG

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

itt: disgusting American savages

WmC, your penance for being so brash in fries' defence is that you have to count all of these now. Have fun!

97 - 47

jesus fondue beat tofu???

really is fondue even a thing

tbh i have no idea what beat anything in these polls because my eyes glaze over at all the numbers

fondue is indeed a thing - a delicious thing - involving cheese

Cookies lost!?!?

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn76/EoMSh0gun/cookie-monster-diet.jpg

eggs are breakfast and breakfast is v important

somewhere there is a place where people actually eat duck confit and fondue all the time
wtf at this awful result

glad fondue won because my vote wasn't entirely in vain ;_; but yeah awful result itp

My family eats meat fondue (oil rather than cheese) at it's special occasions. The nice thing is that the meal takes a long time, so it's more about conversation/music etc than most meals. So it got my vote. Plus, tofu? Maybe vegetarians can trick themselves into liking it, but I can't think of a time in the last 5 yrs I've eaten it. Easy vote.

Eggs 89 > Cookies 55
Fondue 73 > Tofu 71
Peaches 72 = Ribs 72 UH OH
French Fries 97 > Crepes 47

def need to have UH OH shakedown sudden death matches.

24hr polls (or w/e the minimum is)

If I go with calories as the tiebreaker, that knocks out two fruits, leaving only limes.

HMMMMMMMM

can't you just turn the next round to a three-way with the tied options both moving forward? Like: berries vs burritos vs whatever they'd be up against?

No, two foods enter, one food leaves.

Eggs, Fondue, Ribs, French Fries 24
Eggs, Fondue, Peaches, French Fries 9

This argues for peaches on the grounds that the people who got their way on the other 3 largely supported ribs.

If I did lightning-round tiebreakers, I don't see any incentive for anybody to change their votes, so they'd just wind up tied again.

They probably wouldn't tie again though, because there are probably ilxors who only look at the board on the weekend who won't see a tiebreaker.

Fuck it, this needs to be solved by SCIENCE.

I told you there were gonna be ties!

science: ribs are better than peaches

yeah see a short poll midweek will likely draw at LEAST one more or less voter, so it's virtually guaranteed to not be deadlocked

everyone should go eat a rib and a ripe peach and reevaluate their position

this is unfair to the south

this set of results upsets me. fondue over tofu. bah

Yeah, that one is very O_o to me.

I half jokingly nominated fondue because I just naming random foods and honestly didn't expect it to ever actually be in the poll. I'm glad it won though.

I guess it partially makes up for my legitimate nominations (poutine and duck confit) losing terribly.

you are the poutine duck. it all makes sense.

How can you be boohooing over fucking tofu when CREPES and WAFFLES just both got knocked out? Seriously fuck you ilx, I'm never posting here again.

Well, basically I'm not gonna vote for desserts and snacks over proper foods here, because they're not as essential, I can live without them. I think it would've been fairer if desserts had gotten their own poll.

How can you be boohooing over fucking tofu when CREPES and WAFFLES just both got knocked out? Seriously fuck you ilx, I'm never posting here again.

bitter tears over crepes, waffles (tho i love u) not so much. tofu's kind of a tragedy too, especially losing to something as entirely useless as fondue, but it's hard to get worked up about.

because they're not as essential, I can live without them

lol whut? you're voting for foods on the basis of their merits in aiding your survival? who are you, ray mears?

Er, food can be both essential and tasty.

If I go with calories as the tiebreaker, that knocks out two fruits, leaving only limes.

HMMMMMMMM

less calories is better tho so the fruits stay

how is fondue useless? it is nourishing, and it is delicious. These are two useful properties of fondue. In summary, fondue is not useless because it is nourishing and delicious.

fondue is useless because it is a pot of beige goo, reeking of kirsch until that shit cooks off, and it is suitable only for the preparation of fondue. you can't stuff a goose with it. it does not lend itself kindly to sandwitches. it is goo and only goo, wasted unless twirled about spongy bread on a very specific fork. and who has such forks, hand-hammered by ruddy-faced viking descendants on their allegedly unintoxicated days after? but who can trust a sober viking? no one, that is who. therefore, ordinary forks are pressed into service and the valuable hair that cradle our knuckles becomes singed on the cheese-sputtering alcohol flame. there is no part of this that is not a problem. plus i feel so gross thereafter, my belly full of gruyere and caloric regrets...

meat fondue tho...