ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Three - South/West Round of 16

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Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Bagels, Steak

bagels vs berries the only thinker. berries on a massive comeback after the burrito close call, they could take south.

cheese, pizza, berries, steak

bagels v. berries is heartbreaking.

Curry is great but i couldn't live without pizza!

GAH FUCK ACCIDENTALLY VOTED FOR PIZZA WHEN I MEANT TO VOTE FOR CURRY

request blessing of thread to login under my previous login in order to counterbalance my wrong vote

pizza/curry and soup/steak are impossible for me. Berries and hard cheese is easy

Curry...curry is the best food. Curry and mashed potatoes and gravy, those are the two pest foods. Sorry pizza, you're not even in the top two.

Curry...curry is the best food. Curry and mashed potatoes w/gravy, those are the two pest foods. Sorry pizza, you're not even in the top two.

Ooooops, well, oops for posting twice. This is not heresy & shall not recant, twice.

aerosmith - counterbalance okay imo but you gotta vote against *all* the things you voted for...

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Bagels, Steak

aerosmith - counterbalance okay imo but you gotta vote against *all* the things you voted for...

got it

Cheese, Berries, Pizza, Soup

bacon, curry, berries, steak

bacon vs. cheese is basically impossible tho

bacon, pizza, bagels, soup

man steak is gonna beat soup. congratulations on making it this far, soup - you deserved to take it all but you came up against a sentimental favorite. I for one will always think of you as a true team player, able to play on any squad with panache. in my heart you are the winner of this competition but I suspect the numbers are against you this time.

i think i only lost lamb, chicken and cheesecake from the last round. will give these the proper attention before voting

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Berries, Steak

the only hard one here was berries vs bagels

cheeses, curry, berries, steak but man did i feel like i abandoned bacon in a bag at the train station

Hard Cheeses eww, Curry, Berries, Soup

Soup is always kind of more fun to make than it is to eat, so I'm voting steak. But spending a wet Sunday making too much of a thick, hearty soup is one of life's more spiritual culinary pleasures.

Curry vs. Pizza?

::BRANE EXPLODES::

That's like asking me to choose between the half of my life I spent in NY vs the half of my life I spent in London. Can't.

Also, I luurrrve Bagels (or Beigels, either way) but then I just remembered you can't have an Eton Mess without berries so that cinched it.

This is the only poll left that means anything. N/E is diabolical.

Will wait a bit before deciding, all I know so far is that FUCK BACON and FUCK BAGELS

Spite vote against steak for beating fish.

Hard Cheeses, Curry, Berries, Soup

^^^

Hard Cheeses, THIS SHOULD BE THE FINAL, Berries, Soup for me

Case for curry:

You don't get bad curry with ANYTHING LIKE the regularity you get bad, bad, terrible pizza
Curry is immensely variable, covers almost the entire gamut of flavours, and you will never in your LIFE run out of curries to taste
I eat curry more than I eat good pizza
Curry has chomp, the goopy mass of sensual exposure massing around one's mouth

Case for pizza:

Good pizza is a treat that never fails to make me thank God and all his minions for creating food
The fact that there's good pizza and bad pizza means I can get really partisan about pizza on internet messageboards
Curry can be a bit stodgy and can leave one with a slightly dodgy digestive tract - good pizza leaves one feeling righteous, always
Pizza has crunch, the bready bite which so gorgeously smacks against the palate

Which one can I live without? Christ.

Curry vs. Pizza

This is just plain evil

Will say one thing for pizza: never had a bad arse after eating it

yeah I make that point in my above reckoning

Only a moran would vote curry over pizza.

Voted curry though to avenge the death of poor old lentils

oops xp haha

Hard cheeses, pizza, bagels, soup.

I love bacon but couldn't live without cheese. Will be very surprised if pizza doesn't win this whole thing. Still not that fussed about berries vs bagels, but I really fancy a bagel right now. I like both in the last fight but soup is so much more versatile and can be a million times better than even the best steak - it had better win or I will be angry.

i still can't believe lamb lost to that fucker spinach.

if this were an american-only poll, curry would be a non-factor. way to go, former colonizers!

if this were an american-only poll, curry would be a non-factor.

ironically, because very few americans know what real pizza is. YAAAAAAOWWWWWW

british pizza sucks ass most of the time!

yeah but when it doesn't, dude, that is when the magic happens

gor blimey, i mean it sucks arse and looks like the queen's clotted menses on an wheat dough crisp, guv'nor

have i expounded on the worst british pizza i ever had? in luton (yeah, my own fault...), it was called 'california seafood pizza' and it was fresh basil, tuna fish, ranch dressing, and tinned sweetcorn.

Hard Cheeses, Pizza, Berries, Soup

the only one I care about is hard cheese, gonna vote it here on out; the others are all whatever, bagels for the NY crowd, curry for the UK contingent, these things they mean nothing to me

let's up my SB count

(may still vote Curry, unbelievably!)

oh christ remy oh christ oh christ yeah this is what we're up against - if Zero Degrees (pretty authentic Italian-style place down the road, orgasmic pizza) didn't exist I'd have already voted Curry btw

my work here is done

I again would like to bring up that the use of the word 'curry' to mean basically any indian dish you want it to mean is sorta weird and racist

I mean it as 'any Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian or generally South-East Asian dish which involves an infusion of spices, chopped herbs and a base product, either meat, vegetable or both, possibly served over rice or with bread'

ken's ideal roast gets its color from beet juice injected with an insulin syringe

Would also just like to say:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TjEuxE_yL1g/SV4dnHloMzI/AAAAAAAACR0/jHdWcBuPLxE/s400/spanakopita+005.jpg

and

http://lh4.ggpht.com/ChinuaMelton/Rn8B1WU7-YI/AAAAAAAAEkY/AZEzVSC_g6k/spinach_artichoke_dip.jpg

spinach goes very well in curry if you wanna get racist about it

Got enough crackers with that? xp

yeah gotta say that picture made me want crackers more than it made me want spinach

Made me want a glass of water tbh

made me want a lamb madras

No one else has gotten earthquake guts from pizza?

Nopes

I had a pretty innocuous-looking slcie w/fresh mozzarella on it the other night & had to get up 3x during the night to deal with the aftermath.

digestion buffer low.

I applaud those that rise in the night to fart away from the bedsheets.

similar admirations for those who rise in the night to shit away from the bedsheets.

Thrice she rose, to fart or to shit I know not whither

ken c,

I have had what I term 'the ankle-grabbing shits' from both. #tmi

Thrice she rose, to fart or to shit I know not whither

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Monday, 2 August 2010 17:41 (3 minutes ago)

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ken this is the poll where spinach beat savoury pies

yeah i just saw that. and hard cheeses beat chicken.

maybe ilx doesn't like cooked food?

A long time ago I learned from friends that the 'curry' eaten in South Asian restaurants is rare in the home, because most of the dishes on the menu are generally served only at weddings or on other festival days.

voted for pizza and bagels as both are important components in pizza bagels

Surprised myself by voting soup over steak here. I really like steak, especially a straightforward hanger steak with frites or an old-school filet mignon with Bearnaise sauce -- but I think I'm put off by "steak culture" (looking at you, Peter Luger) just enough to go with the endless diversity of soup.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

it's quiet... maybe too quiet

last call

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

curry died, huh? :(

WE KILLED BACON!

horrendous results, people are absolutely devasted down here on the ground tom

Hard Cheeses 75 > Bacon 31
Pizza 63 > Curry 43
Berries 69 > Bagels 37
Soup 61 > Steak 45

you people and your goddamn berries

otherwise this round is a success.

i guess curry was always going to lose to pizza, so it's okay

Hard cheeses over bacon = biggest margin of victory in round 3. I didn't expect that.

wow - everything i vote for won!

I know we lost curry out there guys, we lost curry and there's not a single thing any of us could have done. turn in, get some sleep and don't worry about it. I'm recommending every one of you for a medal when we get home.

oh god curry went down? u fukkin savages

Και ο Ιησούς είπε, πατέρας, τους συγχωρεί γιατί ξέρουν όχι τι κάνουν

Curry only went down because it was against pizza. PIZZA. There's no way curry could beat that.

i have never been more ashamed of my countrymen and -women

bread and cheese vs an entire subcontinent of culinary art i ask you

clearly you don't understand pizza, d.

well clearly not. good day to you.

I blame the "curry is racist" agitators.

Wow, I am surprised but pleased by these results, really thought bacon-mania would take everything, plus didn't expect soup or berries to make it through either

RIP curry though but I like pizza so can't complain too hard about that one, too bad they met so early and Americans were too busy looking for reasons everyone not from America is a racist savage with bad teeth to think about whether they liked the food referred to by the name instead of the name itself

wait was there actually a racism discussion about curry? i thought i'd been following this thread fairly closely, but eh clearly not.

Yeah, Brits are all racist and living in the days of colonialism for referring to 'curry' and not by the specific names of dishes, so how dare we lump them all together for the purpose of this poll.

I find it kind of weird that a dish so rockist on ILX as pizza, where LJ once suffered a pile-on for daring to suggest toppings and was told only cheese, tomato, ham, mushrooms or pepperoni were allowed, could beat the infinite variety and world of NOM that is curry, but whatevs.

the infinite variety and world of NOM that is curry,

you're doing it again....

“Overweight elderly can live longer”, that “Curries can reduce liver damage caused by cirrhosis”, and that “Alcohol may fight effects of arthritis”.

i need to get copies of these studies (cited in letter in Irish Times this AM)

so, you drink booze to combat arthritis, have curries to combat the booze, then get fat and live longer? win fucking win!

that's exactly how i read it, and i don't plan to get a second opinion or anything