ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! The Semifinals

SOUP EGGS

At this point I veer away from pizza after four rounds of voting for it.

Soup, Tacos

this is so hard. well, pizza versus soup is. the other one i'll spin a coin for

pizza tacos

might have done a fight-the-canon anti-pizza vote this round if it were something that I ate / cared about more than soup.

tacos vs eggs is like infinity vs. infinity but the tiebreaker is 'which would piss off lj more'

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

hint for lj: eggs make everything, tacos make fucking tacos.

But fucking tacos are fucking great.

what happened to the meat-eating america-lovin jjjusten from earlier rounds?

n.b. Eggs and tacos are very, very nice when done well, sure, but they're not chocolate or tomatoes :|

things to remember re: eggs

mayonaisse
egg drop soup
pad thai
hollandaise
most good bread and baked goods

things to remember re: tacos

taco
another taco

the 'another taco' is key tho

meat loving me is still in full effect - eggs are like super proto meat or something tho, also soup can be pretty meaty as well

i dig pizza but not as much as soup
tacos are like lame ass burritos and i will not vote for them

most good bread and baked goods

Other baked goods maybe, but definitely not bread! Unless American breads are totally different from Finnish ones.

yes they are "good" bread

So Americans actually use eggs to make bread? Really?

Because in here there's only a few special breads that have egg in them. 99% of breads are made without them.

but those are all things made with eggs, not eggs themselves, JJ

have fun in your eggless universe u savage

(also, peeps that can not appreciate eggs qua eggs are crazy! poached! soft-boiled! scrambled! all awesome!)

I've had fun in it for 14 years now, and plan to keep on doing so.

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things to remember re: tacos

taco
another taco

hahaha I remember when I first learned the word "disingenuous".

Things to remember re: tacos

about two dozen options from the meats column
also fish tacos
about three dozen options from the vegetables column
dozens of different directions to go in spicewise
breakfast tacos of eggs/cheese/green onions/salsa
corn or flour tortillas
do the math and you get just as many taco varieties as soup varieties

ok if you want something way more clearly eggy to support my thing, quiche comes to mind.

xposts you have had what you call "fun" and i am proud of you for that

brb making minestrone taco

I always thought Tuomas was only 14 years old

ok I just figured out the eggless part

all due respect but there is NO WAY that the variety of taco approaches that of soup - even given your list there, nothing spreads a net as wide as gaspacho v pho v hot and sour v homestyle chicken noodle v cream of brocolli

what is with you people and soup

it is good food

i dont actually even understand the argument for tacos against soup, like if someone said i could either never have tacos again or i could never have french onion soup again i wouldn't even hesitate for a minute

Soup definitely has way more variety than pizza. Pizza is like the missionary position of food, it rarely fails to deliver, but rarely surprises either. If you're up for some kinky shit, go to soup.

(note: my clarifying question would be "can i have all the other delicious mexican foods? oh yes? fuck a taco then.")

things to remember re: eggs

mayonaisse
egg drop soup
pad thai
hollandaise
most good bread and baked goods

This is for eggs as a food by itself; not as an ingredient.

is this about what we want to win or what would be best to have in a food fight?

Pizza & eggs for me.

This whole tourney has provided me with a great deal of disappointment, but I'm honestly happy that two of my all-time favorite foods have advanced this far. If, however, it goes the other way, I will cry.

Soup: not very interesting as a food, no matter the ingredients.
Tacos: burritos, eliminated long ago, are superior in every conceivable way.

Tacos are better than burritos because you can have several tacos as a meal, each with a different delicious filling, whereas with burritos everything's jumbled together.

Plus tacos are really good with *sigh* limes

So Americans actually use eggs to make bread? Really?

actually no - jjjusten is either mistaken or exclusively eats extremely rich breads. your standard loaf at any u.s. bakery won't have eggs in it. however your standard supermarket loaf has all manner of dough conditioners & usually some high fructose corn syrup, which like I know people get all "gah stop bitching about the hfcs" but bread is like the #1 case against it because there is no reason to put that shit in bread = they know you'll eat anything so they just dump it into the bread, lol @ these guys watch I bet I can get them to eat it in bologna no you can't oh yeah wanna bet?

Corn syrup in bread? That sounds weird. In here syrup is used only in "limppu", a special type of sweet bread.

I had a really funny zing post but it was essentially just making fun of Finnish language having funny English homophones, do I post it y/n

IMO adding eggs to bread makes it more like bun, which is not the kind of bread I prefer. My favourite is rye bread, which is never ever made with eggs, I can't even imagine what it would taste like if they put those in the dough.

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Go ahead, if you want to.

ok say the thing about the special type of sweet bread that uses syrup again

you know what never mind the moment's gone

rip limppu zing

I stuck up for pizza for a while in this poll, but I think I voted for soup last time and this time, I'll be going for Soup, Tacos.

it's like aerosmith has gone to the lavatory all psyched for a massive splosh, and a shelf has gotten in his way

louis!

This can be the victory banner for the winning team:

http://eats.com/images/stories/eats/foodie_news/dec_09/tortilla_soup.jpg

I don't hold any grudge against pizza and tacos for somehow turning up at this stage, but seriously.

http://www.californiatortilla.com/caltort/wp-content/uploads/img-taco-lrg.jpg

that's not an invitation to create new disgusting forms of egg preparation

soy sauce + eggs is a pretty unbeatable combo.

balut

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)

but if you wanna start going down the paths of "look at how bastardized this food can get so don't vote for it" I invite you all to visit my thread pizza commercials from asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Century_egg_sliced_open.jpeg/220px-Century_egg_sliced_open.jpeg

so beautiful

ha yes, I did kind of conflate the two

would eat century egg

According to a persistent myth, century eggs are, or once were, prepared by soaking eggs in horse urine. The myth may arise from the pungent odor of ammonia given off by century eggs, which is reminiscent of urine.[5] Horse urine itself, however, is only slightly basic, ranging in pH from 7.5 to 7.9.[6] Though human urine left standing can reach a maximum pH of around 9.4—the same as a 1-molar solution of ammonia—it is still less than that produced by mixing quicklime (calcium oxide) or wood ash in water.[7]

In Thai and Lao, the common word for this type of preserved egg literally means "horse urine eggs", either due to this myth or the distinctive ammonia odor of century eggs

pizza, eggs

"man I am famished -got anything to eat?"
"haven't had a chance to get to the Hy-Vee lately but there's some horse urine eggs in the fridge"
"oh awesome, it's been a while since I had horse urine eggs, thanks"
"no problem"

horse urine 4 all time

http://www.brownchina.org/bbs/attachment/6_119.jpg

that looks amazing

horse urine 4 all time

really desperately want this to replace yoga flame

based on his comments itt next time underrated aerosmiths are hanging out at my house I sure as hell won't be offering them any horse urine

runny yolks = proof enough of the existence of god
runny whites = worse than poutine get it the fuck away from me

soy sauce + eggs is a pretty unbeatable combo.

pretty unbeatable yeah but still beatable - sriracha + eggs

zomg clicking around Wikipedia links have made me really, really, really want to try making tea eggs

if you serve me runny whites i am leaving your house

you're... in my house?

ILX secret tour '10

I served your mum some funny whites last night

FUNNY WHITES

Fuck you Google Android!

(thats what your mum said)

^_^

I was going to take the existence of an Underworld mini-album/mix thing called "Pizza for Eggs" as a sign that I should vote for those two, but I thought "which of these would I most go for at this precise moment? why, a bowl of soup", so, soup and eggs it is

(totally not going to click on any of your gross-out egg links, that is just fowl play etc)

best sort of egg by a million miles is hardboiled egg mashed up with butter, salt and pepper, then served warm, fwiw

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... okay, no

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LJ......OTM

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pizza vs. tacos

Pizza 84 > Soup 47
Tacos 73 > Eggs 58

basically, it doesnt matter who pizza plays in the final, though

Should I end this on Friday or Sunday. Are there really any weekend-only ILXors?

Maybe I should start a poll.

http://www.swaberita.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/miso.jpg

Pizza will win because you can make a taco pizza but as much as I dig both foods I cannot get excited about pizza vs. tacos.

^

soup versus tomatoes would have given me pause

tacos are one of the few things from the starting field that trump pizza for me

so i guess this will be more rewarding to vote in than the canon one where none of my favorite things went up against the beatles

for me it's like I can make really good pizza & pretty good tacos but my passion for cooking isn't really represented in either of these foods; I prefer to eat them when they're from a great pizza joint & a great taqueria. (or at my ex-girlfriend's mom's house but that's never going to happen.) so while the ingredient foods like tomatoes and eggs & the stuff-you-make foods like salads & soups seem like big open fields of inspiration to me, tacos and pizza are more like "things I buy," for the most part. hard to get as stoked about something I'm not in the kitchen goin all ballistic about thinkin "I can't wait to serve this to somebody they are gonna say 'underrated a that there is a delicious salad'" or something to that effect.

that's absolutely how I feel about going to eat at my best friend's - he's the best cook I know, and he's never, ever served me pizza or tacos or anything in that ballpark - great pizza at a restaurant is the earth and eight planets in alignment but home cooking is when I really get to watch food being made, marvel at the process, understand why it can be a joy to create as well as consume

and let me tell you, his fish soup...my god

also his couscous and his masala rice pudding, and things he does with garlic and ginger

garlic and ginger

......

his dogs, by any chance?

i now want to make pizza tacos

first gis for "pizza tacos" is so unruly that I'll let you all gis it for yourself if you don't want to feel hungry about pizza OR tacos.

When I moved out right after high school and was really poor, I used to buy those no-name frozen pizzas at the grocery store for about 69 cents, cook them two at a time, and fold them in half like pizza tacos. Sounds gross (hell, it IS gross), but they were dang tasty.