ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round One - Group H (now with more aphrodisiacs)

oysters vs. cheesecake should be a good separator for disgusting savages

never had foie gras, but i still feel okay voting hummus. i go through a lot of hummus tbh.

Hummus, Hamburgers, Pad Thai, Cheesecake

easiest group so far imo

Foie Gras, Pistachios, Chocolate, Oysters

Hummus, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Cheesecake

Foie Gras, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Oysters.

Foie Gras because I am a disgusting, morally-repugnant horrible savage (but actually coz it's nice and taramasalata >>> houmous)
Hamburgers because pistachios are nice but not overwhelmingly so and a good burger can be great
Chocolate because it covers a huge area of glorious culinary enjoyment

and

Oysters because I fucking absolutely goddamn LOVE oysters

p.s. thinking about the ethical procedures behind all four of my choices in this poll = I am going to Hell

Foie gras is one of the most savagely produced foods ever! Hamburgers vs. pistachios was hard, I occasionally like a good veggie burger, but pistachios are always reliable if kinda boring.

(x-post with Louis)

Hummus, Hamburgers, Pad Thai, Cheesecake

love hummus and foie gras is pretty good honestly but it freaks me out, this one NEARLY KILLED ME, my lack of sweet tooth is starting to show and pad thai is great, oysters are the worst thing in the world

I would be happy with cheesecake winning the entire tournament.

these polls are going to cause me to generalize wildly about people's national origins and genders. boys don't properly appreciate sweets.

xp lol already proven wrong

i used to love cheesecake when i was a kid but i can't really eat it now. it's an intense undertaking.

oysters are the worst thing in the world

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i just

Couldn't live in a world without fois gras, once got slagged on here for suggesting hamburgers were anything other than straightforward ground beef patties so pistachios I guess, pad thai too one trick to beat the variety of the world's chocolate (but no vomit tasting American chocolate like Hershey's please) and baked cheesecake squeaks past oysters but if we start including non-baked then it loses a point for every one that's ever been eaten.

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easiest one so far
Hummus, Pistachios, Pad Thai, Cheesecake (don't even like cheesecake much, but also not a huge oyster fan)

I am glad I am not the only woman voting against chocolate.

chocolate v pad thai is legit difficult for me

it's an intense undertaking.

Yeah, I only eat cheesecake about once every two months or so, but there is absolutely NO variation of cheesecake that is bad. None. Chocolate. Regular. Caramel. Whatever. If it's topped with cream or fruit or chocolate, all the better. In fact, I imagine you could mix and match any standardized cheesecake flavor/topping combination and I'd still devour it.

The Jell-O Instant cheesecake from a box is terrible.

SHOUT OUT TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE BURGIN' KREW!!1!

No, I even love the Jell-O Instant version (it's like how Taco Bell and Mexican cuisine are similar but not to be confused, yet both delicious).

Foie Gras v Hummus was slightly tough but only cos I get less chance to eat Foie Gras. If I had the two in front of me right now I know which one I'd be devouring so SUCK ON IT HIPPIES

foie gras, burger, chocolate, cheesecake = decent condemned man's last meal tbh

^^^otm - despite my vote for oysters, that MEAL has a nice ring to it

a bit too much dessert on second thought

(I'm not a massive dessert man, usually, but perversely I do have a huge sweet tooth)

My default is always gonna be savoury over sweet but chocolate and cheesecake can be awesomely not too sweet plus sometimes they just hit that spot

yeah - which is why I at first thought it might work - possibly overkill on them BOTH being there though - although that said if the cheesecake is served as dessert and then en route to the chair someone gives him a bar of dark chocolate, that'd be pretty cool

Foie Gras vs. Hummus -- I've had foie gras once -- a fairly large piece, seared and served on a Kobe sirloin steak. That once is enough to get it the vote over hummus, which I like just fine.

Hamburgers vs. Pistachios -- my totem animal is a hamburger.

Chocolate vs. Pad Thai -- neither of these is particularly interesting to me. Chocolate, for its potential.

Oysters vs. Cheesecake. Tough, tough choice. I've only recently (within the last 5 years) come around to the joy of ersters. I think I will ponder this one for a couple of days before I actually vote.

oysters are nature's candy. chessecake, even when it's good, is kind of gross

Hummus, Hamburgers, Pad Thai, Oysters, though I don't think I've ever actually eaten pad thai, weirdly enough. Sounds potentially interesting. (More interesting than chocolate, at least.)

Sounds like you've had kind of a sheltered food life!

I dunno, I used to get Thai food pretty often -- Just ordered something else, I guess? (Or who know, maybe I have eaten it, and it just didn't leave much of an impression. If so, it was a long time ago.)

Hamburgers vs. Pistachios

poor poor pistachios

Foie Gras, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Cheesecake

chocolate = molé, which beats pad thai like scissors beats paper

foie gras, pistachios, chocolate, oysters

man I already forgot which ones of these I've voted in and which ones I haven't

for real, i am thinking about creating a file for this competition.

Foie Gras, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Cheesecake

FOIE GRAS > hummus: Foie gras really might be the best-tasting food in all creation and it's as simple as that.

CHOCOLATE > pad thai: Tough one for me, but there are other Thai noodle dishes I like as much or more. If it were candy bars vs. pad thai, totally pad thai, but then I think of pain au chocolat, hot fudge sundae, hot chocolate and get confused, and then Jaq's invocation of mole puts the brown bean over the top.

CHEESECAKE > oysters: I would put shrimp and scallops over cheesecake easy, maybe even clams if I'm in that mood, but oyster is my least favorite bivalve. Maybe partly because of that New Years Eve I spent puking in the sink in a New Orleans hotel after an oyster po'boy lunch, but I think I just don't like the taste that much.

Hummus, Pistachios, Chocolate, Cheesecake

chick peas/garbanzos + lentils from the other poll & I could go veg if I had to. I've had some pretty tight foie gras over here (at a West African restaurant in Paris I once had foie gras wrapped in pastry & then served with a honey glaze) but hummus is a staple in our family.

When I was a child I ate like a child & hamburgers were My Thing. When I became a man, I put away childish things & embraced nuts. Or something like that.

never been to Thailand so maybe pad thai is good there but o/w w/e. Chocolate on the other hand is one of the four food groups. I am going to have Nutella on my baguette now in honor of this.

cheesecake b/c it's good though I doubt I'll vote for it again. Oysters are just a bit gross though I had a semi-revelatory experience with them one January in a bistro in Paris. But revelation sadly fades.

When you die and go to hell, I hope you foie gras voters will be pecked by angry geese for eternity.

Foie gras vs. Tummus in Heaven. Swabbed with soft goose livers, comfy. For a while.

Don't want to have to pick between chocolate and pad thai because I love them both (pad thai would be easier to live without though).
Don't want to have to pick between foie gras and hummus because I've been avoiding foie gras out of cruelty concerns but don't really care for hummus.

(Have tried foie gras once and it was too liver-y for me, but I love paté so I'm sure the more mousse/paté-like forms are probably very nice, but, brr.)

I don't believe in hell, Tuomas, but if it exists, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a bunch of Finns following me around in their underwear and saying "I don't understand why the sky is blue" and "I've never heard of Ed Asner, who is he?"

That came out a LOT meaner than I meant it to, sorry.

Not sure that responding to somebody wishing eternal torment on a bunch of strangers shouldn't be a lot mean tbh

Still, I guess it means Tuomas has given up on atheism.

just tryin' to keep it positive over here

except for those duck livers, they need to come to daddy

Open-minded as long as it's an Old Testament God who forgot the bit about us having dominion over geese.

I'm sorry about that comment, it was supposed to be humourous, but I guess it sounded too harsh.

Anyway I'm sure there's at least one thread to moan about man's inhumanity to goose. Wd bet cash money on who started it, too.

Tuomas I'm just spare ribbing you, a little.

Don't have a cow.

Not gonna forcefeed the issue.

man it's not weird to me that not everyone's vegetarian, I get that values differ & that's great, but it is weird to me that people can get down with foie gras, no matter what it tastes like

I know what you mean. I've been a vegetarian for almost half my life, and most of my friends are veggies too, so this sort stuff just feels utterly strange to me, like something space aliens would eat.

I am a vegetarian only as of the last year or so, but foie gras has been on some "what the fuck is wrong with you" tip as far back as I can remember.

^maybe a little harsh, but I mean for fuckin real. Anyway:

Hummus, Pistachios, Pad Thai, Cheesecake, imo

if there's anything that short-circuits the human logic board, it's food, sex and religion. I know foie gras is indefensible, but...oh man...

Love and happiness
something that can make you do wrong
come to think of it, so will food
oh yeah and also God
love, happiness, God and food
make you do wrong

Make you want to dance, love and happiness
Love is, wait a minute
Love is, walkin' together, talkin' together
Say it again, say it together [Incomprehensible]

lol, thank u google

Foie Gras, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Oysters

Foie Gras vs. Hummus was tough because I like both, but hummus is a really good utility food, while foie gras is just off-the-chart decadent and delicious.

Hamburgers - I mean, c'mon pistachios? really?

Chocalate vs. Pad Thai was also tough, but I only really want pad thai once in a while, chocolate is always good.

I love oysters too much, I'd vote for them over almost anything. Parkside on 6th Street in Austin has amazing oysters.

If foie gras beats hummus, I'm posting an armed guard at my house.

I could eat pistachios all motherfuckin day.

hummus with a healthy dose of cumin is a straight portal

Foie GRAS is okay but there are better animal fats (otoro, chicken skin done right)

Pad Thai vs Chocolate was the only tough one for me. I've never eaten foie gras or oysters. I do like pistachios but not as much as a good burger.

Didn't like voting against pad thai but it's not something I eat very often which cannot be said about chocolate.

oie Gras, Hamburgers, Chocolate, Oysters.

Foie Gras because I am a disgusting, morally-repugnant horrible savage (but actually coz it's nice and taramasalata >>> houmous)
Hamburgers because pistachios are nice but not overwhelmingly so and a good burger can be great
Chocolate because it covers a huge area of glorious culinary enjoyment

and

Oysters because I fucking absolutely goddamn LOVE oysters

p.s. thinking about the ethical procedures behind all four of my choices in this poll = I am going to Hell

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:01 (21 hours ago) Bookmar

I was going to write up my reasons but Lou!s has done it for me. a toast &c.

Hummus, Pistachios, Chocolate, Oysters

no regrets. hummus cuz i grew up in beirut and it's just programmed. pistachios cuz they're the best nut, though hamburgers are a totally underrated (and overconsumed) foodstuff imo. chocolate cuz jesus fuck, it's chocolate. and oysters because they are delicious and yeah, so's cheesecake, but i dunno. cheesecake just seems silly. given the choice i'll always take creme brulee or apple crisp or something. even sorbet.

these polls are basically leading me to realize I have lost my sweet tooth

although I would have voted for Jolly Ranchers over anything listed

cheesecake because u could just eat some other type of shellfish, i wouldn't even know oysters were gone to be honest

oysters are actually pretty distinctive! especially if eaten raw. perfect cheesecake is amazing, but it's been so long since i had any that i almost forget...

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jesus these food fight topics are pointless

seriously wtf

seriously fuck off

it's a free country

dear mittens, it isn't about the poll, it's about the discussion, kthx

oh ok

its about the food porn really.

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

Good riddance to foie gras imo.

yeah I kinda regretted voting for Foie Gras - Houmous is a worthy winner and I will gladly help it banish Hamburgers

uh LJ, you know what happened to olives? It will happen to hummus.

i love how reliable it is that as soon as LJ declares how a vote will go, it will go the other way

hamburgers v hummus is going to come down to vegetarians v not, though, so maybe

hahaha horseshoe, that was just big talk from me - I know how it's really gonna go but a dude's gotta get his trash game on

LJ - for pizza's sake, please moderate your posting on the topic once it battles bacon

thanks,

pizza

Hummus 101 > Foie Gras 32
Hamburgers 88 > Pistachios 43
Chocolate 87 > Pad Thai 44
Cheesecake 87 > Oysters 44

Not 100% sure of my math on this one -- foie and hummus add up to 133 and the others add up to 131. Whatever -- hummus wins handily.

YES

that's right
suck on a bunch of hummus, bloated liver eaters

sad to see pistachios and oysters go, but they were long shots at best. know you were loved my friends... still, cheezecake and burgers is okay, if kinda whatever on the latter end. will vote hummus over burgers and i ain't EVEN a vegetarian.

thx for bolding these wmc